navigation link with $wgUploadMissingFileUrl.
* $wgCategoryPrefixedDefaultSortkey was removed and is now always false. This
provides more sensible sorting behavior for categories.
+* Removed unused globals: $wgEnableSerializedMessages, $wgCheckSerialized,
+ $wgUseMemCached, $wgDisableSearchContext, $wgColorErrors,
+ $wgUseZhdaemon, $wgZhdaemonHost and $wgZhdaemonPort.
+* (bug 24408) The include_path is not modified in the default LocalSettings.php
=== New features in 1.17 ===
* (bug 10183) Users can now add personal styles and scripts to all skins via
* The HTML ID's generated for sections are now much prettier when they contain
punctuation or non-English letters, so a section named "Hello?" will now
result in a URL ending in "#Hello?" rather than "#Hello.3F".
+* (bug 8140) Add dedicated CSS classes to Special:Newpages elements
+* (bug 11005) Add CSS class to empty pages in Special:Newpages
+* The parser cache is now shared amongst users whose different settings aren't
+ used in the page.
+* Any attribute beginning with "data-" can now be used in wikitext, per HTML5.
=== Bug fixes in 1.17 ===
* (bug 17560) Half-broken deletion moved image files to deletion archive
instead of showing an error page
* (bug 24425) Use Database::replace instead of delete/insert in SqlBagOStuff::set
to avoid query errors about duplicate keynames.
-* (bug 24700) Update dialog shown when clicking on the special page tab after
- saving preferences
+* (bug 15470) First letters of filenames are always capitalized by upload JS.
+* (bug 21215) NoLocalSettings.php doesn't tolerate rewrite rules
+* (bug 21052) Fix link color for stubs in NewPages
+* (bug 24714) Usage of {{#dateformat: }} in wikis without $wgUseDynamicDates no
+ longer pollutes the parser cache.
+* (bug 17031) Correct which characters the parser allows in tag attributes.
=== API changes in 1.17 ===
* (bug 22738) Allow filtering by action type on query=logevent.
* (bug 24677) axto= parameters added to allcategories, allimages, alllinks, allmessages,
allpages, and allusers
* (bug 24236) Add add, remove, add-self, remove-self tags to meta=siteinfo&siprop=usergroups
-* (bug 24484) Add prop=pageprops module
+* (bug 24484) Add prop=pageprops module
+* (bug 24330) Add &redirect parameter to ?action=edit
+* (bug 24722) For list=allusers&auprop=blockinfo, only show blockedby and blockreason if
+ the user is actually blocked.
+* Add format=dump and format=dumpfm, outputs results in PHP's var_dump() format.
=== Languages updated in 1.17 ===
MediaWiki supports over 330 languages. Many localisations are updated
regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
-changes to languages because of MediaZilla reports.
+changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
* Moroccan Spoken Arabic (ary) (new)
* Banjar (bjn) (new)