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MediaWiki 1.4.0 is the first official stable release in the 1.4 series. All new installations are highly recommended to use 1.4.0 instead of 1.3.x; 1.3.x users should consider upgrading for bug fixes and new features.

1.4 beta or release candidate users should upgrade to this release.

See the release notes (link below) for a fuller list of changes from the previous 1.3.x series and installation notes.

Changes since 1.4rc1:

* (bug 65) Fix broken interwiki link encoding on Latin-1 wikis; ~ force to UTF-8 * (bug 563) Fix UTF-8 interwiki URL redirects via Latin-1 wikis * (bug 1536) Fix page info * Support os (Ossetic) as language code, using Russian localization base * (bug 1610) Support non (Old Norse) as language code, using Icelandic ~ localization base * (bug 1618) Properly list custom namespaces in Special:Allpages * (bug 1622) Remove trailing' >' when using category browser * (bug 1570) Fix php 4.2.x error on conflict merging * (bug 1585) Fix page title on post-login redirection page * Run UTF-8 validation on old text in Recentchanges RSS diffs * (bug 1642) fix a mime type typo in img_auth.php * Automated interwiki redirects only for local interwikis * Respect read-only mode on block removals * Trim old illegal characters from syndication feeds * Reduce message cache outage recovery delay from 1 day to 5 minutes * (bug 1403) Update Finnish localization * (bug 1478) Punjabi localization * (bug 1667) Update script 5 second countdown. * (bug 1057) Fix logging table encoding (error on MySQL 4.1) * (bug 1680) Fix linktrail for fo * (bug 1653) Removing hardcoded messages in Special:Allmessages * (bug 1594) Render a hyphen in a formula as − in HTML * (bug 1495) Fall back to default language MediaWiki: for custom ~ messages * (bug 1617) Show different error messages for "user does not ~ exist" and "wrong password" when using AuthPlugin * (bug 1532), (bug 1544) Changed language names for ~ 'bn', 'bo', 'dv', 'dz', 'ht', 'ii', 'li', 'lo', 'ng', 'or', 'pa', ~ 'si', 'ti', 've' * Fix editing on non-Esperanto wiki with user language pref set to ~ Esperanto * Make conversion table for zh-sg default to zh-cn, and zh-hk ~ default to zh-tw * Fix PHP notice in MonoBook when counters disabled * (bug 1696) Update namespaces, dates in uk localization * (bug 551) Installer warns about magic_quotes_runtime and ~ magic_quotes_sybase instead of trying to install with corrupt ~ table files * Installer no longer tries to move non-default MediaWiki: pages ~ into Template: * User-to-user email disabled by default ($wgEnableUserEmail)

Release notes: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=314389

Download: http://prdownloads.sf.net/wikipedia/mediawiki-1.4.0.tar.gz?download

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Bug report system: http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/

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- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)