* Marking edits as bot edits with Special:Contributions?bot=1 now requires the
markbotedit permission, rather than the rollback permission previously used.
This permission is assigned by default to the sysop group.
+* MediaWiki now checks if serialized files are out of date. New configuration
+ variable $wgCheckSerialized can be set to false to enable old behavior (i.e.
+ to not check and assume they are always up to date)
+* The rollback permission is now assigned by default to all logged-in users. It
+ can also now be rate-limited using the normal mechanism.
+* New configuration variable $wgExtraLanguageNames
=== New features in 1.12 ===
* (bug 10735) Add a warning for non-descriptive filenames at Special:Upload
cleanly if database connections fail unpleasantly.
* (bug 12028) Add Special:Listbots as shortcut for Special:Listusers/bot
* (bug 9633) Add a predefined list of delete reasons to the deletion form
+* Show a warning message when creating/editing a user (talk) page but the user
+ does not exists
+* (bug 8396) Ignore out-of-date serialised message caches
+* (bug 12195) Undeleting pages now requires 'undelete' permission
+* (bug 11810) Localize displayed semicolons
+* (bug 11657) Support for Thai solar calendar
+* (bug 943) RSS feed for Recentchangeslinked
=== Bug fixes in 1.12 ===
* Make sure that the correct log entries are shown on Special:Userrights even
for users with special characters in their names
* The number of watching users in watchlists was always reported as 1
-
+* namespaceDupes.php no longer dies when coming across an illegal title
+* (bug 12143) Do not show a link to patrol new pages for non existent pages
+* (bug 12166) Fix XHTML validity for Special:Emailuser
+* (bug 11346) Users who cannot edit a page can now no longer unprotect it.
+* (bug 451) Add a generic Traditional / Simplified Chinese conversion table,
+ instead of a Traditional conversion with Taiwan variant, and a Simplified
+ conversion with China variant.
+* (bug 12178) Fix wpReason parameter to action=delete, again.
+* Graceful behavior for updateRestrictions.php if a page already has records
+ in the page_restrictions matching its old page_restrictions field.
+ May help with odd upgrade issues or race condition.
+* (bug 11993) Remove contentsub "revision history"
+* (bug 11952) Ensure we quote_ident() all schema names as needed
+ inside of the DatabasePostgres.php file.
+* (bug 12184) Exceptions now sent to stderr instead of stdout for command-line
+ scripts, making for cleaner reporting during batch jobs. PHP errors will also
+ be redirected in most cases on PHP 5.2.4 and later, switching 'display_errors'
+ to 'stderr' at runtime.
+* (bug 12148) Text highlight wasn't applied to cleanly deleted and added
+ lines in diff output
+* (bug 10166) Fix a PHP warning in Language::getMagic
+* Only mark rollback edits as minor if the user can normally mark edits as minor.
+
== Parser changes in 1.12 ==
The parser pass order has changed from
* Outputting list of all user preferences rather than having to request them by
name
* (bug 11206) api.php should honor maxlag
+* Make prop=info check for restrictions in the old format too.
+* Add apihighlimits permission, default for sysops and bots
+* Add limit=max to use maximal limit
+* Add action=parse to render parser output. Use it instead of action=render which is deprecated.
+* Add rvtoken=rollback to prop=revisions
+* Add meta=allmessages to get messages from site's messages cache.
+* Use bold and italics highlighting only in API help
+* Added action={block,changerights,delete,move,protect,rollback,unblock,undelete} and list={blocks,deletedrevs}
+* Fixed sessionid attribute in action=login
+* Standardized limits. Revisions and Deletedrevisions formerly using 200 / 10000,
+ now 500 / 5000, in line with other modules.
+
=== Languages updated in 1.12 ===
* Min Dong (cdo) (new)
* Chechen (ce)
* Cebuano (ceb) (new)
+* Corsican (co) (new)
+* Crimean Tatar (Cyrillic) (crh-cyrl) (new)
+* Crimean Tatar (Latin) (crh-latn) (new)
* Czech (cs)
* Cassubian (csb)
* Old Church Slavonic (cu)
* Danish (da)
* German (de)
* Lower Sorbian (dsb) (new)
+* Middle Dutch (dum) (new)
* Divehi (dv)
* Ewe (ee) (new)
* Greek (el)
* English (en)
* Spanish (es)
+* Estonian (et)
* Euskara (eu)
* Extremaduran (ext)
* Finnish (fi)
* Erzya (myv) (new)
* Nahuatl (nah)
* Min-nan (nan)
+* Napolitan (nap)
* Low Saxon (nds)
* Dutch Low Saxon (nds-nl)
* Newari (new) (new)
* Cantonese (yue)
* Zhuang (za)
* Zealandic (zea)
+* Chinese (zh)
* Old Chinese/Late Time Chinese (zh-classical)
* Chinese (Simplified) (zh-hans)
* Chinese (Traditional) (zh-hant)
+* Chinese (Taiwan) (zh-tw)
== Compatibility ==