* The transliteration for passwords in case they were migrated from an old Latin-1
install (previous to MediaWiki 1.5) is now only done for wikis with
$wgLegacyEncoding set.
+* (bug 27508) Add $wgSVGMetadataCutoff to limit the maximum amount of an svg we
+ look at when finding metadata to prevent excessive resource usage.
=== New features in 1.18 ===
* Added a special page, disabled by default, that allows users with the
potentially dangerous Java applets. This allows applets to be blocked
specifically, rather than all ZIP files being blocked.
* (bug 2429) Allow selection of associated namespace in recent changes
-* (bug 26995) File size is now checked before uploading in HTML5 browsers
+* (bug 26217) File size is now checked before uploading in HTML5 browsers
+* CSS stylesheet MediaWiki:Noscript.css is now loaded for users with JavaScript
+ disabled (enclosed in the head in a <noscript> tag)
+* Added UserGetLanguageObject hook to change the language used in $wgLang
+* (bug 14645) When $wgMiserMode is on, expensive special pages are styled
+ differently (italicized by default) on Special:SpecialPages
+* Added $wgAggregateStatsID, which allows UDP stats to be aggregated over
+ several wikis.
+* When $wgAllowMicrodataAttributes is true, all itemtypes are allowed, not just
+ the three that were defined in the original specification.
=== Bug fixes in 1.18 ===
* (bug 23119) WikiError class and subclasses are now marked as deprecated
incorrect revision ID is passed.
* Trim the form field for uploading by url to remove extra spaces which could
cause confusing error messages.
+* (bug 27854) Http::isValidURI is way too lax.
+* Do not show enotifminoredits preference, if disabled by $wgEnotifMinorEdits.
+* AbortLogin returning "ABORTED" now handled. Also allows message identifier
+ for "ABORTED" reason to be returned and displayed to user.
=== API changes in 1.18 ===
* (bug 26339) Throw warning when truncating an overlarge API result
* (bug 27862) Useremail module didn't properly return success on success.
* (bug 27590) prop=imageinfo now allows querying the media type
* (bug 27587) list=filearchive now outputs full title info
+* (bug 27018) Added action=filerevert to revert files to an old version
+* (bug 27897) list=allusers and list=users list hidden users
+* (bug 27717) API's exturlusage module does not respect $wgMiserMode
+* (bug 27588) list=filearchive&faprop=sha1 returns empty attribute
=== Languages updated in 1.18 ===