Those wishing to use the latest code instead of a branch release can obtain
it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
+== Configuration changes ==
+
+Some default configuration options have changed:
+* $wgAllowExternalImages now defaults to off for increased security.
+
+
== Changes since 1.6 ==
* (bug 5458) Fix double-URL encoding in block log link in contribs and contribs
* Add /usr/local/bin to the diff3 search paths in the installer
* (bug 6106) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #17
* (bug 6125) Add links to edit old versions to diff views
-* (bug 5127) Auto edit summary when creating redirect page
+* (bug 5127) Auto edit summary when creating/editing redirect page
* (bug 3926) Introduce {{#language:}} magic word
* Fix section links from edit comments for [[:Image:Bla.jpg]] in section titles
* (bug 6126) Allow fallback to customized primary language when user language
themselves. Some minor tweaks to the actual message content.
* Introduce $wgContentNamespaces which allows for articles to exist in namespaces other
than the main namespace, and still be counted as valid content in the site statistics.
+* (bug 5932) Introduce {{PAGESINNAMESPACE}} magic word
+* Disable $wgAllowExternalImages by default.
+* (bug 2700) Nice things like link completion and signatures now work in <gallery> tags.
+* Cancel output buffering in StreamFile; when used inside gzip buffering this
+ could cause funny timeout behavior as the Content-Length was wrong.
+* Return correct content-type header with 304 responses for StreamFile;
+ it confuses Safari if you let it return "text/html".
+* (bug 6280) Correct GRAMMAR for Slovenian localisation (sl)
+* (bug 6162) Change date format for Dutch Low Saxon (nds-nl)
+* (bug 6296) Update to Indonesian localisation (id) #21
+* Introduce EditFormPreloadText hook, see docs/hooks.txt for more information
+* (bug 6095) Introduce RunUnknownJob hook, see docs/hooks.txt for more information
+* (bug 5865) Show warning when editing another users' user page and provide a link to edit
+ their talk page instead
== Compatibility ==