[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.6.4 released

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 MediaWiki 1.6.4 is a maintenance bug fix release, which rolls up some fixes to additional minor problems and localization updates to the Spring 2006 quarterly snapshot. * Further improvements to Hebrew localisation * (bug 5544) Fix redirect arrow in Special:Listredirects for right-to-left languages * Replace "doubleredirectsarrow" with a content language check that picks the appropriate arrow * Remove live debugging hack which caused errors with certain database names * (bug 5510) Warning produced when using {{SUBPAGENAME}} in some namespaces * (bug 5548) Improvements to Indonesian localisation [patch: Ivan Lanin] * (bug 5403) Fix Special:Newpages RSS/Atom feeds * (bug 3359) Add hooks on completion of file upload * (bug 5184) CSS misapplied to elements in Special:Allmessages due to conflicting anchor identifiers * (bug 5519) Allow sidebar cache to be disabled; disable it by default. * Add $wgReservedUsernames configuration directive to block account creation/use * (bug 5576) Remove debugging hack in session check * (bug 5181) Update "nogomatch" for Slovak * (bug 5594) Id translation up to '# Login and logout pages' section * (bug 5536) Use content language for editing help link * Minor improvements to English language files * Improvements to German localisation files * (bug 5628) Translations for MessagesHr.php * (bug 5595, 5644) Localisation for Bosnian language (bs) * (bug 5592) Actions are logged with the default language for the wiki, not the language of the user performing the operation. * (bug 5646) Compare for identical types in wfElement() * Fix for concurrency problem in job queue (image description page invalidation) * (bug 5497) regeression in HTML normalization in 1.6 (unclosed <li>,<dd>,<dt>) * (bug 5709) Allow customisation of separator for categories * (bug 4834) Fix XHTML output when using $wgMaxTocLevel * Improvements to update scripts; print out the version, check for superuser credentials before attempting a connection, and produce a friendlier error if the connection fails * (bug 5005): Fix XHTML <gallery> output. * (bug 5315) "Expires: -1" HTTP header made strictly valid (using 1970 date). * (bug 4825): note in DefaultSettings.php about 'profiling' table creation * Remove unneeded extra whitespace at top of Special:Categories * Rewrite reassignEdits script to be more efficient; support optional updates to recent changes table; add reporting and silent modes * Updated initStats maintenance script * (bug 5723) Don't count pages linked to from the MediaWiki namespace as "wanted" * (bug 5789) Treat "loginreqpagetext" as wikitext * (bug 5796) We require MySQL >=4.0.14 Full release notes: http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/tags/REL1_6_4/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/tags/REL1_6_4/phase3/HISTORY Download: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wikipedia/mediawiki-1.6.4.tar.gz MD5 checksum: 3afc13074e29db9083fb73435e5e7371 mediawiki-1.6.4.tar.gz Before asking for help, try the FAQ: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FAQ Low-traffic release announcements mailing list: (Please subscribe to receive announcements of security updates.) http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce Wiki admin help mailing list: http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l Bug report system: http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ Play "stump the developers" live on IRC: #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net - -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)