The final release candidate for MediaWiki 1.21 (rc5) is available for download. See the end of this email for details. There are a number of bug fixes in this release that were not in rc4. Please test this version and report any problems. Barring any show-stoppers, the final release will be on May 15 will be the same as this with just a change to the version number and updated release notes. Changes since rc4: * Changes to JS/JSON value encoding were backed out. * API: Fix parameter validation in setnotificationtimestamp commit 18eb39ecb5b89518c3d4a6cc79834a2c121477ff Author: Brad Jorsch <bjorsch(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Fri Mar 15 14:03:19 2013 -0400 * (bug 47271) $wgContentHandlerUseDB should be set to false during the upgrade * (bug 47489) Installer now automatically selects the next-best database type if the PHP mysql extension is not loaded, preventing fatal errors in some cases. * (bug 47202) wikibits: FF2Fixes.css should not be loaded in Firefox 20. * (bug 46590) 'AbortChangePassword' hook added/documented (find bug) * (bug 46848) toggleLinkPremade added linksPassthru * (bug 47950) Fix IndexPager detection of "is first" state * (bug 47304) added safeXmlEncodings to UploadBase for svg uploads * (bug 46608) CoreParserFunctions::anchorencode should return a string * Full release notes: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.21 ********************************************************************** Download: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-core-1.21.0rc5.tar.gz http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc5.tar.gz Patch to previous version (1.20.0), without interface text: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc5.patch.gz Interface text changes: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-i18n-1.21.0rc5.patch… GPG signatures: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-core-1.21.0rc5.tar.g… http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc5.tar.gz.sig http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc5.patch.gz.s… http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-i18n-1.21.0rc5.patch… Public keys: https://secure.wikimedia.org/keys.html _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-distributors mailing list MediaWiki-distributors(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-distributors