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October 10, 2006

This is the quarterly release snapshot for Fall 2006. While the code has been running on Wikipedia for some time, installation and upgrade bits may be less well tested. Bug fix releases may follow in the coming days or weeks.

MediaWiki is now using a "continuous integration" development model with quarterly snapshot releases. The latest development code is always kept "ready to run", and in fact runs our own sites on Wikipedia.

Release branches will continue to receive security updates for about a year from first release, but nonessential bugfixes and feature development happen will be made on the development trunk and appear in the next quarterly release.

Those wishing to use the latest code instead of a branch release can obtain it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN

== Configuration changes ==

* $wgUseETag, to enable/disable sending of HTTP ETag headers (default: disabled) * $wgLegalTitleChars now includes '+' by default for better compatibility with importing data dumps from Wikipedia * $wgDefaultUserOptions now includes all default option settings instead of only overrides.

== Major new features ==

* (bug 7098) Add an option to disable/enable sending of HTTP ETag headers, as it seems to result in broken behaviour in combination with Squid 2.6 (disabled by default). * (bug 550) Allow blocks on anonymous users only. * (bug 6420) Render thumbnails for DJVU images, support multipage DJVU display on image pages. Added new 'page=' thumbnail option to select a page from a multipage djvu for thumbnail generation. * Full Postgres support is now enabled. It requires version 8.1 or better, and needs to have both plpgsql and tsearch2 already installed. * (bug 6386) fix grammatical errors in danish naming of talk namespaces.

Full release notes: http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/tags/REL1_8_0/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/tags/REL1_8_0/phase3/HISTORY

Download: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wikipedia/mediawiki-1.8.0.tar.gz

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