* MediaWiki now checks if serialized files are out of date.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
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* (bug 8396) Ignore out-of-date serialised message caches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 fixes in 1.12 ===
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 ==
* 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)
* Cantonese (yue)
* Zhuang (za)
* Zealandic (zea)
+* Chinese (zh)
* Old Chinese/Late Time Chinese (zh-classical)
* Chinese (Simplified) (zh-hans)
* Chinese (Traditional) (zh-hant)