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
maintenance
* $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 ===
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 ===
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 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)