it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
=== Configuration changes in 1.16 ===
-
+* $wgScriptModifiedMsgCheck Checks the mediawiki namespace recent changes to
+ensure a updated urid for script-loader
+* $wgScriptModifiedCheck Checks script file modified time for unique request id)
+* $wgEnableAsyncDownload (lets you disable Async download for windows.
+Hopefully we will remove this configuration var soon)
* $wgEnableFirefogg enable support for firefogg extension, firefogg supports
in-browser transcoding, chunk uploads and client side hash checking.
* $wgEnableTemporalOggUrls enable oggz_chop support a server side ogg seeking
correctly (img_auth only)
* $wgUploadMaintenance added to disable file deletions and restorations during
maintenance
-* New hook AbortNewAccountAuto, called before account creation from AuthPlugin-
- or ExtUser-driven requests.
* $wgCapitalLinkOverrides added to configure per-namespace capitalization
+* (bug 21172) $wgSorbsUrl can now be an array with multiple DNSBL
+* $wgEnableHtmlDiff has been removed
+* (bug 3340) $wgBlockCIDRLimit added (default: 16) to configure the low end of
+ CIDR ranges for blocking
+* $wgUseInstantCommons added for quick and easy enabling of Commons as a remote
+ file repository
=== New features in 1.16 ===
* (bug 21095) Tracking categories produced by the parser (expensive parser function
limit exceeded, __NOINDEX__ tracking, etc) can now be disabled by setting the
system message ([[MediaWiki:expensive-parserfunction-category]] etc) to "-".
+* Added maintenance script sqlite.php for SQLite-specific maintenance tasks.
+* Rewrote Special:Upload to allow easier extension.
+* Upload errors that can be solved by changing the filename now do not require
+ reuploading.
+* Added $wgRateLimitsExcludedIPs, to allow specific IPs to be whitelisted from
+ rate limits.
+* (bug 21222) When $wgUseTeX is not enabled, <math> is no longer registered with
+ the parser so extensions are free to implement their own <math> tag
+* (bug 21047) Wrap 'cannotdelete' into a div with the generic 'error' class and
+ an own 'mw-error-cannotdelete' class
+* New hook AbortNewAccountAuto, called before account creation from AuthPlugin-
+ or ExtUser-driven requests.
+* (bug 3480) The warning saying that the page has a history when deleting it now
+ contains the number of revisions in the history
+* $wgStylePath and $wgLogo are now set in the default LocalSettings.php file.
+* (bug 20186) Allow filtering history for revision deletion.
+* New hook getOtherBlockLogLink, called in Special:IPBlockList and Special:Block
+ to show links to block logs of other blocking extensions, i.e. GlobalBlocking
+* Added search capabilities to SQLite backend
+* rebuildtextindex.php maintenance script now supports databases other than
+ MySQL
=== Bug fixes in 1.16 ===
* (bug 3421) Live preview no longer breaks user CSS/JS previews
* (bug 11264) The file logo on a file description page for documents (PDF, ...)
now links to the file rather than the file description page
-* Password fields built with HTMLForm now still have the type="password" attribute
- if $wgHtml5=false.
+* Password fields built with HTMLForm now still have the type="password"
+ attribute if $wgHtml5=false.
* (bug 20836) Preload now works for MediaWiki namespace
* (bug 20885) Search box no longer suggests unavailable special pages
* (bug 20948) "Create this page" on Special:Search is no longer displayed when
* (bug 20524) Hideuser: Show nice error when trying to block hidden user without
hideuser right
* (bug 21026) Fixed file redirects on shared repos on non-English client wikis
-* (bug 21030) Fixed schema choices from being overwritten by defining unique field names per driver.
+* (bug 21030) Fixed schema choices from being overwritten by defining unique
+ field names per driver.
* (bug 21115) wgCanonicalSpecialPageName javascript variable is now always
false on non-special pages
+* (bug 21113) "Other statistics" header on Special:Statistics is no more
+ displayed when there isn't any entry in it
+* (bug 21114) Special:Contributions no longer shows diff links for new
+ revisions
+* (bug 21116) MediaWiki:Templatesused, MediaWiki:Templatesusedpreview and
+ MediaWiki:Templatesusedsection now support plural
+* (bug 21079) There is no more line wrapping between label and field in
+ Special:Log
+* (bug 20256) Fixed SQL errors on Special:Recentchanges and
+ Special:Recentchangeslinked on SQLite backend
+* (bug 20880) Fixed updater failure on SQLite backend
+* (bug 21182) Fixed invalid HTML in Special:Listgrouprights
+* (bug 20242) Installer no longer promts for user credentials for SQLite
+ databases
+* (bug 20911) Installer failed to create a SQLite database
+* (bug 20847) Deprecated deprecated akeytt() removed in wikibits.js leaving
+ dummy
+* (bug 21161) Changing $wgCacheEpoch now always invalidates file cache
+* (bug 20268) Fixed row count estimation on SQLite backend
+* (bug 20275) Fixed LIKE queries on SQLite backend
+* (bug 21234) Moving subpages of titles containing \\ now works properly
+* (bug 21006) maintenance/updateArticleCount.php now works again on PostgreSQL
+* (bug 19319) Add activeusers-intro message at top of SpecialActiveUsers page
+* (bug 21255) Fixed hostname construction for DNSBL checking
+* (bug 18019) Users are now warned when moving a file to a name in use on a
+ shared repository and only users with the 'reupload-shared' permission can
+ complete the move.
+* (bug 18909) Add missing Postgres INSERT SELECT wrapper
+* User::isValidPassword now only returns boolean results, User::getPasswordValidity
+ can be used to get an error message string
+* The error message shown in Special:ChangePassword now parses wiki markup
+* (bug 19859) Removed experimental HTMLDiff feature
+* Removed section edit links in edit conflict form
+* Allow SpecialActiveusers to work on non-MySQL databases
+* (bug 6579) Fixed protecting images from uploading only
+* (bug 18609) Search index was empty for some pages
+* (bug 13453) rebuildrecentchanges maintenance script works on PG again
+* (bug 16583) Reduce false positives when checking for PHP (on upload, etc.)
+* (bug 20112) Bitrotted tests in the t/ directory were failing.
+* (bug 21470) MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-explain is now wrapped in a <p> with
+ id "mw-sp-contributions-explain"
+* (bug 19159) Fixed \overleftrightarrow in texvc
== API changes in 1.16 ==
* (bug 20700) Add amprop=default to meta=allmessages to list default value for
customized messages
* Don't parse magic words in meta=allmessages, output messages unparsed
+* (bug 21105) list=usercontribs can now list contribs for User:0
+* (bug 21085) list=deletedrevs no longer returns only one revision when
+ drcontinue param is passed
+* (bug 21106) Deprecated parameters now tagged in action=paraminfo
+* (bug 19004) Added support for tags
+* (bug 21083) list=allusers no longer returns current timestamp for users
+ without registration date
+* (bug 20554) Expose average slave lag (avglag) as well as maxlag
+* (bug 20967) action=edit allows creation of invalid titles
=== Languages updated in 1.16 ===
regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
changes to languages because of MediaZilla reports.
+* North Frisian (frr) (new)
* Kirmanjki (kiu) (new)
+* Karachay-Balkar (krc) (new)
* Lower Silesian (sli) (new)
* Picard (pcd) (new)
* Uyghur (Arabic script) (ug-arab) (new)
* (bug 19949) New linktrail for Greek (el)
* (bug 19809) Korean (North Korea) (ko-kp) (new)
* (bug 19968) Fixed "Project talk" namespace name for Maltese (mt)
+* (bug 21168) Added áâãàéêçíóôõúü to Portuguese (pt) linktrail
== Compatibility ==