* Added externallinks table, to track links to arbitrary URLs
* Added job table, for deferred processing of jobs. The immediate application is
to complete the link table refresh operation when templates are changed.
-
+* Don't change the password of the MySQL root user.
Documentation:
* (bug 3306) Document $wgLocalTZoffset
* (bug 5097) Fix Hungarian language (hu): thousands separator
* (bug 5098) Update for Portuguese messages (pt)
* (bug 5113) Spelling error in French language file
+* (bug 5105) Magic words for LanguageAr.php
+* (bug 3993) Variants for Serbian language
+* Typo in English messages file
Parser:
* (bug 2522) {{CURRENTDAY2}} now shows the current day number with two digits
* (bug 4783) : Fix for "{{ns:0}} does not render"
* Improved support for interwiki transclusion
* (bug 1850) Image link to nonexistent file fixed.
+* (bug 5167) Add {{SUBPAGENAME}} variable
Upload:
* (bug 2527) Always set destination filename when new file is selected
* Blocked users can no longer roll back, change the protection of, or delete/undelete pages
* Protect against spoofing of X-Forwarded-For header
* XSS issue : now sanitize search query input (fixed in 1.5rc3)
+* Remove deprecated $wgOnlySysopsCanPatrol references; use User::isAllowed( 'patrol' )
+ per bug 5282. Patch by Alan Harder.
Special Pages:
* Rearranged Special:Movepage form to reduce confusion between destination
* Purge thumbnails and metadata cache for action=purge on an image page
* (bug 4273) Bounce back with a message when attempting to submit a new comment
with an empty main textbox (user probably hit Enter in subject field)
+* (bug 5141) Gracefully handle the new account link when createaccount off
+* (bug 5150 and related) Fix missing ID attribute in HTML namespace selector
+* (bug 5152) Proper HTML escaping on subpage breadcrumbs
+* (bug 4855) Section edit links now have the section name in the title attribute.
+* (bug 2115) Support shift-selecting multiple checkboxes with JavaScript.
+* (bug 5161) Don't try to load template list for nonexistent pages
+* (bug 5228) Workaround for broken LanguageConverter title overrides; avoid
+ unnecessary hidden UI work when watch/unwatch is performed on edit
+* Fixed bogus master fallback in external storage
+* (bug 5246) Add speak:none to "hiddenStructure" class in main.css
+* Further work on rev_deleted; changed to a bitfield with several data-hiding
+ options. Not yet ready for production use; Special:Revisiondelete is
+ incomplete, and the flags are not preserved across page deletion/undeletion.
+ To try it; add the 'deleterevision' permission to a privileged group.
+* (bug 5270) Fix broken linktrail for br, cv, fr, hr, nn, oc, ta, wa
+* Add a clickable contribs link in user tool links (rc, watchlist, diff view)
+ to see how people like it. (There was one in the old hacked-up diff view.)
+* (bug 5236) Load wikibits.js before site-customized javascript
+* (bug 4119) Workaround for <nowiki> following link in Walloon; remove capitals
+ from linktrail, as they're not used anywhere else.
+* (bug 4781) Output links with the percent-encoding they're supplied with;
+ save the normalization for internal link storage. The normalization is a bit
+ buggy and can make incorrect foldings in the query string and such, so isn't
+ reliable beyond the hostname where it's used for the spam bulk checker.
+* Don't URL-decode in the title attribute for URL links; it can produce false
+ results that don't code back to their original values.
=== Caveats ===