* MediaWiki now checks if serialized files are out of date. New configuration
variable $wgCheckSerialized can be set to false to enable old behavior (i.e.
to not check and assume they are always up to date)
-* The rollback permission is now assigned by default to all logged-in users. It
- can also now be rate-limited using the normal mechanism.
+* The rollback permission is now be rate-limited using the normal mechanism.
* New configuration variable $wgExtraLanguageNames
+* Behaviour of $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups changed. New behaviour:
+* * Granting the userrights privilege allows arbitrary changing of rights.
+* * Without the userrights privilege, a user will be able to add and/or
+ remove the groups specified in $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups for
+ any groups they are in.
+* New permission userrights-interwiki for changing user rights on foreign wikis.
=== New features in 1.12 ===
* (bug 10735) Add a warning for non-descriptive filenames at Special:Upload
filetype-unwanted-type and filetype-banned-type.
* Added link to the old title in Special:Movepage
* On Special:Movepage, errors are now more noticeable.
+* It is now possible to change rights on other local wikis without the MakeSysop
+ extension
=== Bug fixes in 1.12 ===