* New permission userrights-interwiki for changing user rights on foreign wikis.
* $wgImplictGroups for groups that are hidden from Special:Listusers, etc.
* $wgAutopromote: automatically promote users who match specified criteria
+* $wgGroupsAddToSelf, $wgGroupsRemoveFromSelf: allow users to add or remove
+ themselves from specified groups via Special:Userrights.
=== New features in 1.12 ===
* (bug 10735) Add a warning for non-descriptive filenames at Special:Upload
* Added exception hooks
* (bug 12574) Allow bots to specify whether an edit should be marked as a bot
edit, via the parameter 'bot'. (Default: '1')
-
+* (bug 12536) User should be able to get MediaWiki version from any page
+* (bug 12622) A JavaScript constant to declare whether api.php is available
+* Add caching to the AJAX search
+* Add APCOND_INGROUPS
+* Add DBA caching to installer
+* (bug 18585) Added a bunch of parameters to the revertpage message
+* Support redirects in image namespace
+* (bug 10049) Prefix index search and namespaces in Special:Withoutinterwiki
=== Bug fixes in 1.12 ===
* (bug 12489) Special:Userrights listed in restricted section again
* (bug 12553) Fixed invalid XHTML in edit conflict screen
* (bug 12505) Fixed section=0 with action=raw
-* Do not log user rights change that didn't change anything
+* (bug 12614) Do not log user rights change that didn't change anything
* (bug 12584) Don't reset cl_timestamp when auto-updating sort key on move
* (bug 12588) Fix selection in namespace selector on Special:Newpages
* Use only default options when generating RSS and Atom syndication links.
This should help prevent infinite link loops that some software may follow,
and will generally keep feed behavior cleaner.
+* (bug 12608) Unifying the spelling of getDBkey() in the code.
+* (bug 12611) Bot flag ignored in recent changes
+* (bug 12617) Decimal and thousands separators for Romanian
+* (bug 12567) Fix for misformatted read-only messages on edit, protect.
+ Also added proper read-only checks to several special pages.
+ Have removed read-only checks from the general user permission framework.
+* Creating a site with a name containing '#' is no longer permitted, since the
+ name will not work (but $wgSiteName is not checked if manually set).
== Parser changes in 1.12 ==
* Make prop=info check for restrictions in the old format too.
* Add apihighlimits permission, default for sysops and bots
* Add limit=max to use maximal limit
-* Add action=parse to render parser output. Use it instead of action=render which is deprecated.
+* Add action=parse to render parser output. Use it instead of action=render which has been removed
* Add rvtoken=rollback to prop=revisions
* Add meta=allmessages to get messages from site's messages cache.
* Use bold and italics highlighting only in API help
* (bug 12413) meta=userinfo missing <query> tag
* Add list of sections to action=parse output
* Added action=logout
+* Added cascade flag to prop=info&inprop=protections
+* Added wlshow parameter to list=watchlist, similar to rcshow (list=recentchanges)
+* Added support for image thumbnailing to prop=imageinfo
=== Languages updated in 1.12 ===
* Mapudungun (arn) (new)
* Assamese (as)
* Asturian (ast)
+* Avaric (av)
+* Kotava (avk) (new)
* Aymara (ay)
* Samogitian (bat-smg)
* Boarisch (bar)
* Welsh (cy)
* Danish (da)
* German (de)
+* German (de-formal) (new)
* Zazaki (diq) (new)
* Lower Sorbian (dsb) (new)
* Middle Dutch (dum) (new)
* Divehi (dv)
* Ewe (ee) (new)
* Greek (el)
+* Emiliano-Romagnolo (eml)
* English (en)
* Spanish (es)
* Estonian (et)
* Franco-Provençal (frp)
* Frisian (fy)
* Irish (ga)
+* Gagauz (gag) (new)
* Gön-gnŷ (gan) (new)
* Scottish Gaelic (gd) (new)
* Galician (gl)