* If config/ directory is not executable, the command to make it executable
now asks the user to cd to the correct directory
* Add experimental new external authentication framework, ExternalAuth
-* (bug 14201) Set $wgDBadminuser/$wgDBadminpassword during setup
* (bug 18768) Remove AdminSettings requirements. Maintenance environment
will still load it if it exists, but it's not required for anything
* (bug 19900) The "listgrouprights-key" message is now wrapped in a div with
criteria used by Special:Random and subclasses, or substitute a custom result,
deprecating the $wgExtraRandompageSQL config variable
* (bug 20318) Distinct CSS classes for ISBN/RFC/PMID special links added
+* (bug 20404) Custom fields in the user creation form template can now have
+ tooltips
=== Bug fixes in 1.16 ===
* (bugs 18407, 18409) Special:Upload is now listed on Special:Specialpages only
if uploads are enabled and the user can access it
* (bug 17988) Spaces before [[Category:]] links are no longer ignored
-* (bug 19392) Favicon, apple-touch-icon links matching the defaults are no
- longer sent
* (bug 19957) All known-failing tests now marked disabled; added --run-disabled
option to parser test suite to run disabled tests if desired.
* (bug 16311) Make recent change flags (n/m/b) <abbr>s instead of <span>s
* (bug 20365) Page name with with c/g/h/j/s/u + x are now correctly handled in
Special:MovePage with Esperanto as content language
* (bug 20364) Fixed regression in GIF metadata loading
+* (bug 20299) MediaWiki:Move-subpages and MediaWiki:Move-talk-subpages can now
+ use wikitext
+* (bug 15475) DatabaseBase::setFlag(), DatabaseBase::clearFlag() and
+ DatabaseBase::getFlag() now have documentation
+* (bug 19966) MediaWiki:License-header is now used for the licensing header in
+ the file description page instead of MediaWiki:License
+* (bug 20380) Links to history/deleted edits at the top of
+ Special:RevisionDelete are no more displayed when when doing log suppression
+* (bug 8143) Localised parser function names are now correctly case insensitive
+ if they contain non-ASCII characters
== API changes in 1.16 ==
* (bug 19907) $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains added to allow specified (or all)
external domains to access api.php via AJAX, if the browser supports the
Access-Control-Allow-Origin HTTP header
+* (bug 19999) Made metadata and properties of search results optional. Added
+ srprop and srinfo.
=== Languages updated in 1.16 ===