== Configuration changes ==
-* None yet!
+* $wgUseETag, to enable/disable sending of HTTP ETag headers
+ (default: disabled)
== Major new features ==
+* (bug 7098) Add an option to disable/enable sending of HTTP ETag headers,
+ as it seems to result in broken behaviour in combination with Squid 2.6
+ (disabled by default).
* (bug 550) Allow blocks on anonymous users only.
+* (bug 6420) Render thumbnails for DJVU images, support multipage DJVU display
+ on image pages. Added new 'page=' thumbnail option to select a page from a
+ multipage djvu for thumbnail generation.
+* Full Postgres support is now enabled. It requires version 8.0 or better, and
+ needs to have both plpgsql and tsearch2 already installed.
== Changes since 1.7 ==
+* Introduced AjaxResponse object, superceding AjaxCachePolicy
+* Changes to sajax_do_call: optionally accept an element to fill instead of a
+ callback function; take the target function or element as a third parameter;
+ pass the full XMLHttpRequest object to the handler function, instead of just
+ the resultText value; use HTTP response codes to report errors.
* (bug 6562) Removed unmaintained ParserXml.php for now
* History paging overlap bug fixed
* (bug 6586) Regression in "unblocked" subtitle
* (bug 6751) Fix preview of blanked section with edit on first preview option
* (bug 5456) Separate MediaWiki:Search into messages for both noun and verb,
introduced 'MediaWiki:Searchbutton'
+* Made lines from initialiseMessages() appear as list items during installation
+* Moved the bulk of the localisation data from the Language*.php files to the
+ Messages*.php files. Deleted most of the Languages*.php files.
+* Introduced "stub global" framework to provide deferred initialisation of core
+ modules.
+* Removed placeholder values for $wgTitle and $wgArticle, these variables will
+ now be null during the initialisation process, until they are set by index.php
+ or another entry point.
+* Added DBA cache type, for BDB-style caches.
+* Removed custom date format functions, replacing them with a format string in
+ the style of PHP's date(). Used string identifiers instead of integer
+ identifiers, in both the language files and user preferences. Migration should
+ be transparent in most cases.
+* Simplified the initialisation API for LoadBalancer objects.
+* Removed the broken altencoding feature.
+* Moved default user options and toggles from Language to User. Language objects
+ are still able to define default preference overrides and extra user toggles,
+ via a slightly different interface.
+* Don't include the date option in the parser cache rendering hash unless
+ $wgUseDynamicDates is enabled.
+* Merged LanguageUtf8 with Language. Removed LanguageUtf8.php.
+* Removed inclusion of language files from the bottom of Language.php. This is
+ now consistently done from Language::factory().
+* Add the name of the executing maintenance script to the debug log. Start the
+ profiler during maintenance scripts.
+* Added "serialized" directory, for storing precompiled data in serialized form.
+* Fix regression in auto-set NS_PROJECT_TALK namespace
+* Fix regression in ordering of namespaces
+* (bug 6806, 6030) Added several global JS variables for article path, user name,
+ page title, etc.
+* hooks registered with addOnloadHook are now called at the one of the html body
+ by all skins.
+* Split ajax aided search from core ajax framework. Use wgUseAjax to enable the
+ framework and wgAjaxSearch to enable the suggest feature for the search box.
+* Added experimental installer for extensions.
+ See maintenance/installExtension.php
+* Added Tajic (tg) language file.
+* (bug 6903) Added Cantonese localisation (zh-yue)
+* Fix regression in Korean and Japanese date formatting (day of week)
+* (bug 6919) Add English alias magic words for Tatar (tt) language file.
+* (bug 6753) Fixed broken Kazakh linktrail (kk)
+* (bug 6700) Added Kazakh language variants to Names.php
+* (bug 6827) some i18n specific maintenance scripts fails after merge of localisation-work branch
+* Throwed an exception for the deprecated functions OutputPage::sysopRequired and
+ OutputPage::developerRequired - use OutputPage::permissionRequired instead.
+* Removed the deprecated functions User::isSysop, User::isBureaucrat and User::isDeveloper -
+ use User::isAllowed instead.
+* (bug 769) OutputPage::permissionRequired() should suggest groups with the needed permission
+* (bug 6971) Fix regression in Special:Export history view
+* Revamped Special:Imagelist
+* (bug 7000) updated MessagesPl.php
+* (bug 6946) Fix unexpected behavior change with GET hits to Special:Export
+* (bug 1866) Improve navigation on Special:Listusers; user now a starting
+ point as with Special:Allpages, rather than a pure limit.
+* Clean up tab order on Special:Blockip
+* (bug 5969) Clean up tab order on Special:Userlogin forms
+* (bug 3512) namespaceDupes now handles spaces and initial caps properly
+* (bug 7037) Fix regression in login tab order
+* (bug 7031) Report missing email on 'email password' instead of false success
+* (bug 7010) Don't send email notifications for watched talk pages when user
+ has selected to receive only updates for their own talk page
+* Added {{CURRENTHOUR}}
+* Added [[:Image:Foo.png]] style links to the pagelinks table
+* Avoid duplicate revision imports with Special:Import
+* (bug 7054) Validate email address before sending email confirmation message
+* (bug 7061) Format title on "from (page)" links on Special:Allpages
+* (bug 7044) Introduce "padleft" and "padright" colon functions
+* Pass page title as parameters to "linkshere" and "nolinkshere" and update
+ default message text
+* Allows to upload from publicy accessible URL. Set $wgAllowCopyUploads = true ; in LocalSettings.php
+ Limited to $wgMaxUploadSize (default:100MB); URL upload is limited to sysops by default, and displayed as a second line if appropriate
+* (bug 832) Return to user page after emailing a user
+* (bug 366) Add local-system-timezone equivalents for date/time variables
+* (bug 7109) Fix Atom feed version number in header links
+* (bug 7075) List registered parser function hooks on Special:Version
+* (bug 7059) Introduce "anchorencode" colon function
+* Include SVN revision number in {{CURRENTVERSION}} output, where applicable
+* Fix bug in wfRunHooks which caused corruption of objects in the hook list
+* (bug 4979) Use simplified email addresses when running on Windows
+* (bug 4434) Show block log fragment on Special:Blockip
+* [[MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage]] may optionally contain wiki links to any number
+ of disambiguation templates.
+* [[Special:Disambiguations]] now shows pages in NS:0 that link to any pages that embed
+ any of the templates listed at [[MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage]].
+* Fix formatting of titles on Special:Undelete
+* (bug 7026) Fix action=raw&templates=expand
+* (bug 6976) Add namespace and direction classes to classic skins
+* (bug 7144) Don't "return to main" from OutputPage::loginToUse() if the the user can't
+ read the main page in the first place
+* (bug 7188) Fix minor borkage in HTMLForm
== Languages updated ==
* Bishnupriya (bpy) stub file
* Brazilian Portuguese (pt-br)
* Catalan (ca)
+* Cantonese (zh-yue)
* Dutch (nl)
* English (en)
* French (fr)
* German (de)
+* Georgian (ka)
* Hebrew (he)
* Hungarian (hu)
* Indonesian (id)
* Korean (ko)
* Polish (pl)
+* Portuguese (pt)
+* Ripuarian (ksh)
+* Romani (rmy)
* Russian (ru)
+* Spanish (es)
+* Tajic (tg)
+* Tatar (tt)
* Telugu (te)
== Compatibility ==