for page titles which shouldn't be converted on display/linking
* Lazy extraction of text chunks in Revision objects, may reduce hits to
external storage when actual text content is not used
+* Added experimental $wgRevisionCacheExpiry to cache extracted revision text
+ in $wgMemc, to further reduce hits to external storage.
+ Set to 0 (disabled) by default.
+* Minor changes to the installer.
+* Remove ":" for 'youremail' and 'yourrealname' in includes/templates/Userlogin.php
+ so that ":" could be used in i18n for Special:Preferences (like 'username' and 'uid').
+* Fix layout for Special:Preferences->Date and Time (position for 'timezonetext').
+* Updates to language variant code for Serbian et al
+* (bug 6756) Enabling RTL direction for kk-cn
+* (bug 6701) Kazakh language variants in MessagesEn.php
+* (bug 7335) SVN revision check in Special:Version fails on SVN 1.4 working copy
+* (bug 6518) Replaced 'lastmodified' with 'lastmodifiedat' and 'lastmodifiedby' with 'lastmodifiedatby'
+ with seperated parameters for date and time to allow better localisation. Updated all message files
+ to display the old format for compatibility.
+* (bug 7357) Make supposedly static methods of Skin actually static
+* Added info text to Special:Deadendpages and Special:Lonelypages
+* Fix regression in cachability of generated CSS and JS for MonoBook skin,
+ while avoiding clobbering of different users' cached data
+* (bug 6849) Block @ from usernames; interferes with multi-database tools and
+ was meant to be banned years ago... For now existing accounts will not be
+ prevented fromm login.
+* (bug 6092) Introduce magic words {{REVISIONDAY}}, {{REVISIONDAY2}, {{REVISIONMONTH}},
+ {{REVISIONYEAR}} and {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}}
+* (bug 7425) Preceeding whitespace in [[...]] breaks subpages
+* Try to reconnect after transitory database errors in dumpTextPass.php
+* (bug 6023) Fixed mismatch of 0/NULL for wl_notificationtimestamp; now notification
+ mails are working after 'Mark all pages visited' button on Special:Watchlist is clicked
+* Made {{INT:}} a core parser function instead of a special case. The syntax
+ and behaviour is largely unchanged.
+* (bug 7448) Fixing the native name for Ewe (ee)
+* (bug 6864) Replace message 'editing' with new message 'editinguser' in Special:Userrights
+ to allow better localisation
+* Add '*-summary' for special pages to MessagesEn.php to allow customizing/translation
+ directly through Special:Allmessages
+* (bug 6130, bug 5818) Replaced message 'go' with the new message 'searcharticle' in skins
+ to allow better localisation
+* Add + to $wgLegalTitleChars by default. Some sites may have occasional
+ problems with hard-to-reach pages, but it should be less trouble than
+ "I can't import dumps from Wikipedia" complaints
+* (bug 7460) Revert broken patch for bug 7226 which slows down
+ Special:Allmessages by a factor of 16
+* Committed a bunch of live hacks from Wikimedia servers
+* (bug 6889) PHP notices in thumb.php with missing params
+* Cleaner error behavior on thumb.php with invalid page selection
+* (bug 6617) Validate timestamps on Special:Undelete
+* Do fewer unnecessary full writes of user rows; only update user_touched
+ for watch/unwatch, group membership change, and login operations
+* Restructured the languages directory, to avoid problems when people
+ untar MW 1.8 over the top of a 1.7 installation.
+* (bug 6890) SQL query error on bad input to Pager lists
+ due to negative LIMIT clause, caused by integer wraparound.
+* Fixed various bugs related to table prefixes, especially the interaction
+ between table prefixes and memcached, which was formerly completely broken.
== Languages updated ==
* Albanian (sq)
* Bashkir (ba)
+* Bavarian (bar) stub file
* Belarusian (be)
* Bishnupriya (bpy) stub file
* Brazilian Portuguese (pt-br)
-* Catalan (ca)
* Cantonese (zh-yue)
+* Catalan (ca)
+* Czech (cs)
* Dutch (nl)
* English (en)
* Finnish (fi)
* French (fr)
-* German (de)
* Georgian (ka)
+* German (de)
* Hebrew (he)
* Hungarian (hu)
* Indonesian (id)
* Japanese (ja)
* Korean (ko)
+* Lojban (jbo)
+* Mazandarani (mzn)
* Polish (pl)
* Portuguese (pt)
* Ripuarian (ksh)