Installer:
* (bug 3782) Throw fatal installation warning if mbstring.func_overload on.
Why do people invent these crazy options that change language semantics?
+* Fixed installer bugs 921 and 3914 (issues with using root and so forth)
+* (bug 4258) Use ugly urls for ISAPI by default
+ patch by Rob Church
+* Improve installer
+ * Use a superuser account (such as root), if specifed, to create tables
+ * Don't overwrite conservative permissions on the mySQL user with ALL
+ permissions, if said user exists
+ * Changes to some of the wording of explanations for fields
i18n / Languages:
* Partial support for Basque language (from wikipedia and meta)
* (bug 4359) red [[user:#id]] links generated in [[special:Log]]
* (bug 1996) Special page to list redirects
* (bug 4334) Add "watch" links to Special:Unwatchedpages
+* Generate target user page links in Special:Ipblocklist where appropriate (i.e. not an autoblock)
+* Generate link to talk page of the blocker in Special:Ipblocklist, move contribs. link of the target next to their name
Misc.:
* PHP 4.1 compatibility fix: don't use new_link parameter to mysql_connect
* (bug 3407) Fix encoding of subject and from/to headers on notification
mails; userMailer() now takes a MailAddress wrapper object instead of
a raw string to abstract things a level.
-* (bug 4258) Use ugly urls for ISAPI by default
- patch by Rob Church
* Fixed --server override on dumpTextPass.php
* Added plugin interface for dumpBackup, so additional filters and output
sink types can be registered at runtime from an extension
* Linker::formatComment corrupted the passed title object on PHP 5
if the comment included a section link. Use clone() to make a safe copy.
* Add wfClone() wrapper since we're still using PHP 4 on some servers.
-* Fixed installer bugs 921 and 3914 (issues with using root and so forth)
* Remove obsolete killthread.php
-
+* Added wfDie() wrapper, and some manual die(-1), to force the return code
+ to the shell to return nonzero when we crap out with an error.
+* Allow input of the stub from a compressed file instead of stdin
+ for dumpTextPass.php; easier to get errors back on the shell
+* Added an attractive space on the namespace selector on contribs
+* Move PHP 5-friendly XHTML doctype hack to Sanitizer, use for sig checks.
+ Fixes use of named entities in sigs on PHP 5
+* (bug 4482) Include move comment on the null edit as well as the redirect
+* (bug 3990) Use existing session name if session.auto_start is on
+ Fixes checks for open sessions, such as the cookie warning on login.
+ Patch by Zbigniew Braniecki.
+* Add cache-safe alternate sitenotice for anonymous users. (MediaWiki:Anonnotice)
+ This is displayed instead of the regular sitenotice, if it exists. If not, the
+ regular sitenotice shows. If that doesn't exist, the value of $wgSiteNotice is used,
+ and if that's null, then nothing is shown.
=== Caveats ===