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MediaWiki 1.5 beta 4 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series.
== Changes since 1.5beta3 ==
* Fix talk page move handling
* (bug 2721) New language file for Vietnamese with the Vietnamese
~ number notation
* (bug 2749) would appear as a literal in image galleries
~ for Cs, Fr, Fur, Pl and Sv
* (bug 787) external links being rendered when they only have one slash
* Fixed a missing typecast in Language::dateFormat() that would cause
~ some interesting errors with signitures.
* (bug 2764) Number format for Nds
* (bug 1553) Stop forcing lowercase in Monobook skin for German
~ language.
* (bug 1064) Implements Special:Unusedcategories
* (bug 2311) New language file for Macedonian
* Fix nohistory message on empty page history
* Fix fatal error in history when validation on
* Cleaned up email notification message formatting
* Finally fixed Special:Disambiguations that was broke since SCHEMA_WORK
* (bug 2761) fix capitalization of "i" in Turkish
* (bug 2789) memcached image metadata now cleared after deletion
* Add serialized version number to image metadata cache records
* (bug 2780) Fix thumbnail generation with GD for new image schema
* (bug 2791) Slovene numeric format
* (bug 655) Provide empty search form when searching for nothing
* Nynorsk numeric format fix
* (bug 2825) Fix regression in newtalk notifications for anons w/
~ enotif off
* (bug 2833) Fix bug in previous fix
* With $wgCapitalLinks off, accept off-by-first-letter-case in 'go'
~ match
* Optional parameters for [[Special:Listusers]]
* (bug 2832) [[Special:Listadmins]] redirects to
~ [[Special:Listusers/sysop]]
* (bug 785) Parser did not get out of <pre> with list elements
* Some shared upload fixes
* (bug 2768) section=new on nonexistent talk page does not add heading
* support preload= parameter for section=new
* show comment subject in preview when using section=new
* use comment form when creating a new talk page
* (bug 460) Properly handle <center> tags as a block.
* Undo inconsistent editing behavior change
* (bug 2835) Back out fix for bug 2802, caused regressions in category
~ sort
* PHP 4.1.2 compatibility fix: define floatval() equivalent if missing
* (bug 2901) Number format for Catalan
* Special:Allpages performance hacks: index memcached caching, removed
~ inverse checkbox, use friendlier relative offsets in index build
* Bring back "Chick" skin for mobile devices. It needs testing.
* Fix spelling of $wgForwardSearchUrl in DefaultSettings.php
* Specify USE INDEX on Allpages chunk queries, sometimes gets lost
~ due to bogus optimization
* (bug 275) Section duplication fix
* Remove unused use of undefined variable in UserMailer
* Fix notice on search index update due to non-array
* (bug 2885) Fix fatal errors and notices in PHP 5.1.0beta3
* (bug 2931) Fix additional notices on reference use in PHP 4.4.0
* (bug 2774) Add three new $wgHooks to LogPage which enable extensions
~ to add their own logtypes, see
~ extensions/Renameuser/SpecialRenameuser.php for an example of this.
* (bug 740) Messages from extensions now appear in Special:Allmessages
* (bug 2857) fixed parsing of lists in <pre> sections
* (bug 796) Trackback support
* Fix 1.5 regression: weird, backwards diff links on new pages in
~ enhanced RC are now suppressed as before.
* New skin: Simple
* "uselang" and "useskin" URL parameters can now be used in the URL when
~ viewing a page, to change the language and skin of a page
~ respectively.
* Skins can now be previewed in preferences
* (bug 2943) AuthPlugin::getCanonicalName() name canonicalization hook,
~ patch from robla
* Wrap revision insert & page update in a transaction, rollback on late
~ edit conflict.
* (bug 2953) 'other' didn't work in Special:Blockip when localized
* (bug 2958) Rollback and delete auto-summary should be in the project's
~ content language
* Removed useless protectreason message
* Spelling fix: $wgUrlProtcols -> $wgUrlProtocols
* Switch Moldovan local name to cyrillic
* Fix typo in undefined array index access prevention
* (bug 2947) Update namespaces for sr localization
* (bug 2952) Added Asturian language file with translated namespaces
* (bug 2676) Apply a protective transformation on editing input/output
~ for browsers that hit the Unicode blacklist. Patch by plugwash.
* (bug 2999) Fix encoding conversion of pl_title in upgrade1_5.php
* compressOld.php disabled, as it's known to be broken.
Release notes:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=345894
Download:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wikipedia/mediawiki-1.5beta4.tar.gz?down…
MD5 checksum: 3cc4509799b6fbc8bf877db74468fbae
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- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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