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MediaWiki 1.6.6 is a security and bugfix maintenance release.
An XSS injection vector in brace replacement has been fixed, as have some
potential problems with table parsing. Upgrading is strongly recommended
for all users of 1.6. MediaWiki versions 1.5 and earlier are not affected.
As a quick fix, if you are not able to fully upgrade to 1.6.6 you can apply this
two-line patch to fix the main known problems:
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/branches/REL1_6/phase3/includes/S…
Additionally some localization and user interface updates are included.
* Correct "revertpage" message in English
* (bug 5507) Logouttext uses now wiki markup
* (bug 5857, 5957) Update for German localisation (de)
* (bug 5586) <gallery> treated text as links
* (bug 5957) Update for Hebrew language (he)
* (bug 6025) SpecialImport: wrong message when no file selected
* (bug 6015) EditPage: add spacing in the boxes "edit is minor" and "watch this"
* (bug 6018) Userrights: new message when no user specified ('nouserspecified')
* (bug 6055) Fix for HTML/JS injection bug in variable handler (found by Nick
Jenkins)
* Reordered wiki table handling and __TOC__ extraction in the parser to better
handle some overlapping tag cases.
* Only the first __TOC__ is now turned into a TOC.
* (bug 361) URL in URL, they were almost fixed. Now they are.
Full release notes:
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/tags/REL1_6_6/phase3/RELEASE-NOTEShttp://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/tags/REL1_6_6/phase3/HISTORY
Download:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wikipedia/mediawiki-1.6.6.tar.gz
MD5 checksum:
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SHA-1 checksum:
debb5970dd30632b0d6fff6dd95727da9d730f6f mediawiki-1.6.6.tar.gz
Before asking for help, try the FAQ:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FAQ
Low-traffic release announcements mailing list:
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Bug report system:
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/
Play "stump the developers" live on IRC:
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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-NOTEShttp://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
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Bug report system:
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/
Play "stump the developers" live on IRC:
#mediawiki on irc.freenode.net
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