setting since version 1.2.0. If you have it on, turn it *off* if you can.
+== MediaWiki 1.5 beta 1 ==
+
+June 26, 2005
+
+MediaWiki 1.5 beta 1 is a preview release, pretty much feature complete,
+of the new 1.5 release series. There are several known and likely a number
+of unknown bugs; it is not recommended to use this release in a production
+environment but would be recommended for testing in mind of an upcoming
+deployment.
+
+A number of significant changes have been made since the alpha releases,
+including database changes and a reworking of the user permissions settings.
+See the file UPGRADE for details of upgrading and changing your prior
+configuration settings for the new system.
+
+
+
== MediaWiki 1.5 alpha 2 ==
June 3, 2005
* Added a versionRequired() function to OutputPage, useful for extension
writers that want to control what version of MediaWiki their extension
can be used with.
+* Serialized user objects now checked for versioning
+* Fix for interwiki link regression
+* Printable link shorter in monobook
+* Experimental Latin-1-and-replication-friendly upgrader script
+* (bug 2520) Don't show enotif options when disabled
+
+== Changes since 1.5beta1 ==
+
+* (bug 2531) Changed the interwiki name for sh (Serbocroatian) to
+ Srpskohrvatski/Српскохрватски (was Српскохрватски (Srbskohrvatski))
+* Nonzero return code for command-line scripts on wfDebugDieBacktrace()
+* Conversion fix for empty old table in upgrade1_5.php
+* Try reading revisions from master if no result on slave
+* (bug 2538) Suppress notice on user serialized checks
+* Fix paging on Special:Contributions
+* (bug 2541) Fix unprotect tab
+* (bug 1242) category list now show on edit page
+* Skip sidebar entries where link text is '-'
+* Convert non-UTF-8 URL parameters even if referer is local
+* (bug 2460) <img> width & height properly filled when resizing image
+* (bug 2273) deletion log comment used user interface langage
+* Try reading revision _text_ from master if no result on slave
+* Use content-language message cache for raw view of message pages
+* (bug 2530) Not displaying talk pages on Special:Watchlist/edit
+* Fixed a bug that would occour if $wgCapitalLinks was set to false, a user
+ agent could create a username that began with a lower case letter that was
+ not in the ASCII character set ( now user $wgContLang->ucfirst() instead of
+ PHP ucfirst() )
+* Moved the user name / password validity checking from
+ LoginForm::addNewAccountInternal() to two new functions,
+ User::isValidUserName() and User::isValidPassword(), extensions can now do
+ these checks without rewriting code.
+* Fix $wgSiteNotice when MediaWiki:Sitenotice is set to default '-'
=== Caveats ===