== Major new features ==
* (bug 550) Allow blocks on anonymous users only.
+* (bug 6420) Render thumbnails for DJVU images, support multipage DJVU display
+ on image pages. Added new 'page=' thumbnail option to select a page from a
+ multipage djvu for thumbnail generation.
+* Full Postgres support is now enabled. It requires version 8.0 or better, and
+ needs to have both plpgsql and tsearch2 already installed.
== Changes since 1.7 ==
* (bug 6753) Fixed broken Kazakh linktrail (kk)
* (bug 6700) Added Kazakh language variants to Names.php
* (bug 6827) some i18n specific maintenance scripts fails after merge of localisation-work branch
+* Throwed an exception for the deprecated functions OutputPage::sysopRequired and
+ OutputPage::developerRequired - use OutputPage::permissionRequired instead.
+* Removed the deprecated functions User::isSysop, User::isBureaucrat and User::isDeveloper -
+ use User::isAllowed instead.
+* (bug 769) OutputPage::permissionRequired() should suggest groups with the needed permission
+* (bug 6971) Fix regression in Special:Export history view
+* Revamped Special:Imagelist
+* (bug 7000) updated MessagesPl.php
+* (bug 6946) Fix unexpected behavior change with GET hits to Special:Export
+* (bug 1866) Improve navigation on Special:Listusers; user now a starting
+ point as with Special:Allpages, rather than a pure limit.
+* Clean up tab order on Special:Blockip
+* (bug 5969) Clean up tab order on Special:Userlogin forms
+* (bug 3512) namespaceDupes now handles spaces and initial caps properly
+* (bug 7037) Fix regression in login tab order
+* (bug 7031) Report missing email on 'email password' instead of false success
+* (bug 7010) Don't send email notifications for watched talk pages when user
+ has selected to receive only updates for their own talk page
+* Added {{CURRENTHOUR}}
+* Added [[:Image:Foo.png]] style links to the pagelinks table
+* Avoid duplicate revision imports with Special:Import
+* (bug 7054) Validate email address before sending email confirmation message
+* (bug 7061) Format title on "from (page)" links on Special:Allpages
+* (bug 7044) Introduce "padleft" and "padright" colon functions
+* Pass page title as parameters to "linkshere" and "nolinkshere" and update
+ default message text
== Languages updated ==
* English (en)
* French (fr)
* German (de)
+* Georgian (ka)
* Hebrew (he)
* Hungarian (hu)
* Indonesian (id)
* Polish (pl)
* Romani (rmy)
* Russian (ru)
+* Spanish (es)
* Tajic (tg)
* Tatar (tt)
* Telugu (te)