* Removed some Old code

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@@ -328,15 +328,59 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
 * (bug 6061) Improper escaping in some html forms
 * (bug 6065) Remove underscore when using NAMESPACE and TALKSPACE magics.
 * (bug 6074) Correct squid purging of offsite upload URLs
-
+* To simplify the lives of extension developers, the logging type arrays
+  can now be appended to directly by an extension setup function. It is
+  no longer necessary to write four separate functions just to add a
+  custom log type.
+* (bug 6057) Count "licenses" as a message (and show it in Special:Allmessages)
+* Added $wgGrammarForms global
+* Fixed hardcoded 'done.' when removing watchlist entries.
+* (bug 5962) Update for Italian language (it)
+* (bug 6086) Remove vestigial attempt to call Article::validate()
+* wfHostname() function for consistent server hostname use in debug messages
+* Send thumbnailing error messages to 'thumbnail' log group
+* wfShellexec() now accepts an optional parameter to receive the exit code
+* Failed, but not zero-length, thumbnail renderings are now removed.
+  Should help clean up when rsvg fails in weird ways.
+* (bug 6081) Change description for Turkmen language
+* Increase robustness of parser placeholders; fixes some glitches when
+  adjacent to identifier-ish constructs such as URLs.
+* Shut up the parser test whining about files in a temp directory.
+* (bug 6098) Add Aragonese language support (an)
+* (bug 6101) Update for Russian language (ru)
+* Add $wgIgnoreImageErrors to suppress error messages for thumbnail rendering
+  problems. If errors are transitory, this should reduce annoying messages
+  making it into cached display.
+* (bug 6103) Wrap self-links in a CSS class ("selflink")
+* (bug 6102) For consistency with other markup, normalize all HTML-encoded
+  character entities in URLs, not just ampersands. This allows use of eg
+  = when making URLs for template parameters.
+* Markup anality: escape </ as <\/ in toolbar javascript for pure correctness
+  under HTML-compatible browsers.
+* (bug 5077) Added hook 'BeforePageDisplay' to SkinTemplate::outputPage
+* Replace fatally changed 'uploadnewversion' with 'uploadnewversion-linktext'
+* (bug 472) Syndication feeds for the last few edits of page history
+* Format edit comments in Recent Changes feed
+* Switch incorrectly ordered column headers on Recent Changes feed diffs
+* (bug 6117) Use message for history feed description, add German localization
+* (bug 1017) fixed thumbnails of animated gifs.
+* Add APC as object caching option
+* Update to Albanian localization (sq)
+* (bug 6099) Introduce {{DIRECTIONMARK}} magic word (with {{DIRMARK}} as an alias)
+* Use optimized php5-only microtime()
+* Add possibility to store local message cache as PHP executable script
+* Fix profiling table definition
+* Pass a second parameter to "nogomatch" containing the search terms minus the
+  preceding colon, allowing prettied-up messages
+* (bug 6040) Run pre-save transform before calculating the diff. when doing a
+  "show changes" operation in the editor
+* (bug 4033) Respect $wgStyleDirectory when checking available skins
+* Remove hideous backslashes from MessagesBr.php
+* Fix APC object cache issues, add functionality to installer
 
 == Compatibility ==
 
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-upgrade to 4.3 or later.
-
-MediaWiki 1.6 is the last major version to support PHP 4; future versions
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+MediaWiki 1.7 requires PHP 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
 
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 At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.