* (bug 6428) Incorrect form action URL on Special:Newimages with hidebots = 0 set
* (bug 4990) Show page source to blocked users on edits, or their modified version
if blocked during an edit
+* (bug 5903) When requesting the raw source of a non-existent message page,
+ return blank content (as opposed to the message key)
+* Improve default blank content of MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Monobook.css
+* (bug 6434) Allow customisation of submit button text on Special:Export
+* (bug 6314) Add user tool links on page histories
+* Fix display of file-type icons in galleries when $wgIgnoreImageErrors is off
+* (bug 6438) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #23
+* Adding the language code parameter to the hook "LanguageGetMagic", to allow
+ localizble extensions magic words.
+* Update to Romanian translation (ro)
+* Update to Esperanto translation (eo)
+* Check for preg_match() existence when installing and die out whining about PCRE
+ if it's not there, instead of throwing a fatal error
+* (bug 672) Add MathAfterTexvc hook
+* Update to Piedmontese localization (pms)
+* dumpBackup can optionally compress via dbzip2
+* (bug 2483) Run link updates on change via XML import
+* (bug 2481) List imported pages during Special:Import
+* (bug 2482) Log and RC entries for Special:Import events
+* Allow fetching all revisions from transwiki Special:Import
+* Allow fetching all revisions from Special:Export GET request
+* Disable output buffering on Special:Export; should help with streaming
+ large numbers of history items.
+* Allow setting a maximum number of revisions for history Special:Export;
+ pages with more than $wgExportMaxHistory revisions are excluded from
+ export when history is requested.
+* Fix transwiki import of pages with space in name
+* Save null edit when importing pages through Special:Import
+* Update to Korean translation (ko)
+* Show a more specific message when an anonymous user tries to access Special:Watchlist
+* (bug 3278) Paging links in Special:Prefixindex
+* Added Latvian localization (lv)
+* (bug 6472) Fix regression in Special:Export with multiple pages
+* Update to Macedonian translation (mk)
+* Allow page moves over historyless self-redirects. Such are usually created
+ as part of namespace rearrangements, and it's easier to clean them up if
+ we can move over them.
+* Show some error results in moveBatch.php
+* (bug 6479) Allow specification of the skin to use during HTML dumps
+* (bug 6461) Link to page histories in Special:Newpages
+* (bug 6484) Don't do message transformations when preloading messages for editing
+* (bug 6201) Treat spaces as underscores in parameters to {{ns:}}
+* (bug 6006) Allow hiding the password change fields using an authentication plugin
+* (bug 6489) Use appropriate link colour on Special:Shortpages
+* Added formatnum magic word
+* Added Javanese localization (jv)
+* (bug 6491) Apply bad image list in category galleries
+* (bug 6488) Show relevant log fragment in Special:Movepage
+* Fix potential PHP notice in Special:Blockme when $wgBlockOpenProxies is true
+* Use mysql_real_escape_string instead of addslashes for string escaping in
+ the MySQL Database class. This may fix some rare breakage with binary fields.
+ Note that MediaWiki does not support the multibyte character sets where a
+ "dumb" byte replacement can be actively dangerous; UTF-8 is always safe
+ in this regard due to the bit patterns which make head and tail bytes
+ distinct.
+* (bug 6497) Use $wgMetaNamespaceTalk for Esperanto if set
+* (bug 6498) Use localized forms for image size in Special:Undelete
+* (bug 6485) Update to Indonesian translation (id) #24
+* Extension messages translation is now possible.
+* Add target namespace override selector for transwiki imports.
+ $wgImportTargetNamespace specifies the default, to be used for
+ Wiktionary's 'Transwiki:' namespace etc.
+* (bug 6506) Update to German localisation (de)
+* (bug 502) Avoid silly tabs on bad title by using virtual special page
+* (bug 6511) Add diff links to old revision navigation bar
+* (bug 6511) Replace 'oldrevisionnavigation' message with 'old-revision-navigation'
+* Fix regression in Polish genitive month forms
+* (bug 4037) Make input handling in Special:Allpages and Special:Prefixindex
+ more consistent: Accept just a namespace prefix and a colon, reject input
+ with interwiki prefixes, otherwise do what Title::makeTitleSafe() does.
+* (bug 6516) Update to Russian translation
+* New 'allpagesbadtitle' message for Special:Allpages, based on 'badtitletext'.
+* Rename "searchquery" to "searchsubtitle" and support wiki text in it
== Compatibility ==
== Upgrading ==
-Several changes to the database have been made from 1.5; these are relatively
-minor but do require that the update process be run before the new code will
-work properly:
+Several changes to the database have been made from 1.6:
-* A new "templatelinks" table tracks template inclusions.
-* A new "externallinks" table tracks URL links; this can be used by a
- mass spam-cleanup tool in the SpamBlacklist extension.
-* A new "jobs" table stores a queue of pages to update in the background; this
- is used to update links in including pages when templates are edited.
+* A new "langlinks" table tracks interlanguage links
+* A new "filearchive" table stores information on deleted files
+* A new "querycache_info" table stores information on query page updates
To ensure that these tables are filled with data, run refreshLinks.php after
the upgrade.
-
If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, some major database
changes are made, and there is a slightly higher chance that things could
break. Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!