API: Improvements to action=emailuser:

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@@ -35,17 +35,20 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
   $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups, where the user must belong to a specified
   group in order to add or remove those groups from themselves.
   Backwards compatibility is maintained.
-* $wgEnablePersistentCookies has been added. Setting to false disables the
-  setting of persistent cookies. Defaults to true.
-  
+* $wgRestrictDisplayTitle controls if the use of the {{DISPLAYTITLE}} magic
+  word is restricted to titles equivalent to the actual page title. This
+  is true per default, but can be set to false to allow any title.
+* $wgSpamRegex may now be an array of multiple regular expressions.
+* $wgAjaxSearch has been removed; use $wgEnableMWSuggest instead.
+
 === New features in 1.14 ===
 
-* New URL syntaxes for Special:ListUsers - 'Special:ListUsers/USER' and 
-  'Special:ListUsers/GROUP/USER', in addition to the older syntax 
+* New URL syntaxes for Special:ListUsers - 'Special:ListUsers/USER' and
+  'Special:ListUsers/GROUP/USER', in addition to the older syntax
   'Special:ListUsers/GROUP' where GROUP is a valid group name.
-* Configurable er-namespace and per-page notices for the edit form, 
+* Configurable per-namespace and per-page notices for the edit form,
   respectively MediaWiki:Editnotice-# where # is the namespace number, and
-  MediaWiki:Editnotice-#-PAGENAME where # is the page's namespace number and 
+  MediaWiki:Editnotice-#-PAGENAME where # is the page's namespace number and
   PAGENAME is the page name minus the namespace prefix.
 * (bug 8068) New __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__ magic words allow user control of
   search engine indexing on a per-article basis.
@@ -80,7 +83,7 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
 * (bug 14929) removeUnusedAccounts.php now supports 'ignore-touched' and
   'ignore-groups'. Patch by Louperivois
 * (bug 15127) Work around minor display glitch in Opera.
-* By default, reject file uploads that look like ZIP files, to avoid the 
+* By default, reject file uploads that look like ZIP files, to avoid the
   so-called GIFAR vulnerability.
 * (bug 15141) Give ability to only list protected pages with the cascading
   option enabled on Special:ProtectedPages
@@ -88,7 +91,12 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
   Show/Hide logged in users, Show/Hide anonymous, Invert namespace selection
 * Added hook 'UserrightsChangeableGroups' to allow modification of what
   groups may be added or removed via the Special:UserRights interface.
-  
+* HTML entities like   now work (are not escaped) in edit summaries.
+* (bug 13815) In the comment for page moves, use the colon-separator message
+  instead of a hardcoded colon.
+* Allow <gallery> to accept image names without an Image: prefix
+* Add tooltips to rollback and undo links
+
 === Bug fixes in 1.14 ===
 
 * (bug 14907) DatabasePostgres::fieldType now defined.
@@ -130,6 +138,17 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
   gives results
 * Avoid recursive crazy expansions in section edit comments for pages which
   contain '/*' in the title
+* Fix excessive memory usage when parsing pages with lots of links
+* $wgSpamRegex now matches the edit summary and page move descriptions in
+  addition to body text.
+* Navigation links to images available from a shared repository (like Commons)
+  from their local talk pages no longer appear as redlinks
+* Action=purge on ForeignApiFiles now works (purges their thumbnails and 
+  description pages).
+* (bug 15303) Title conversion for templates wasn't working in some cases.
+* (bug 15264) Underscores in Special:Search/Foo_bar parameters were taken
+  literally; now converting them to spaces per expectation.
+
 
 === API changes in 1.14 ===
 
@@ -147,6 +166,20 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
 * (bug 15048) Added limit field for multivalue parameters to action=paraminfo
   output.
 * When the limit on multivalue parameters is exceeded, a warning is issued
+* list=search doesn't list missing pages any more
+* (bug 15178) Added clshow to prop=categories to allow filtering for hidden/
+  non-hidden categories
+* (bug 15228) Combining revids= and redirects now throws a warning instead of an
+  error, and still resolves redirects generated by the generator.
+* list={backlinks,embeddedin,imageusage} now return arrays with keys 0, 1, 2,
+  etc. (AKA lists) instead of arrays with pageIDs as keys (AKA hash tables)
+  for consistency with other list modules.
+* Added action=watch
+* (bug 15275) apprefix and related parameters ignore spaces at the end
+* action=edit no longer throws unknown error 228  when trying to create an empty
+  section with section=new
+* Database replication lag doesn't cause all action=edit requests to return the
+  nochange flag any more
 
 === Languages updated in 1.14 ===