Mediawiki v1.5.beta3 Release Notes

    • ๐Ÿ›  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
    • ๐Ÿ›  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
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix nohistory message on empty page history
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix fatal error in history when validation on
    • Cleaned up email notification message formatting
    • ๐Ÿ›  Finally fixed Special:Disambiguations that was broke since SCHEMA_WORK
    • (bug 2761) fix capitalization of "i" in Turkish
    • ๐Ÿ“‡ (bug 2789) memcached image metadata now cleared after deletion
    • โž• 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]]
    • ๐Ÿ“œ (bug 785) Parser did not get out of with list elements
    • ๐Ÿ›  Some shared upload fixes
    • (bug 2768) section=new on nonexistent talk page does not add heading
    • ๐Ÿ‘Œ support preload= parameter for section=new
    • ๐Ÿ‘‰ show comment subject in preview when using section=new
    • ๐Ÿ‘‰ use comment form when creating a new talk page
    • (bug 460) Properly handle 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
    • ๐ŸŽ Special:Allpages performance hacks: index memcached caching, removed inverse checkbox, use friendlier relative offsets in index build
    • โœ… Bring back "Chick" skin for mobile devices. It needs testing.
    • ๐Ÿ›  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
    • โœ‚ Remove unused use of undefined variable in UserMailer
    • ๐Ÿ›  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
    • ๐Ÿ“œ (bug 2857) fixed parsing of lists in sections
    • ๐Ÿ‘ (bug 796) Trackback support
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix 1.5 regression: weird, backwards diff links on new pages in enhanced RC are now suppressed as before.
    • ๐Ÿ†• 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
    • ๐Ÿ”Œ (bug 2943) AuthPlugin::getCanonicalName() name canonicalization hook, patch from robla
    • โšก๏ธ Wrap revision insert & page update in a transaction, rollback on late edit conflict.
    • (bug 2953) 'other' didn't work in Special:Blockip when localized
    • โช (bug 2958) Rollback and delete auto-summary should be in the project's content language
    • โœ‚ Removed useless protectreason message
    • Spelling fix: $wgUrlProtcols -> $wgUrlProtocols
    • Switch Moldovan local name to cyrillic
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix typo in undefined array index access prevention
    • โšก๏ธ (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.
    • โฌ†๏ธ (bug 2999) Fix encoding conversion of pl_title in upgrade1_5.php
    • compressOld.php disabled, as it's known to be broken.