Please preserve the timestamps in your tar files, so one can tell what files are older and what files are newer. You used to preserve them, now you don't.
Corrections for mediawiki-1.12.0/RELEASE-NOTES: * (bug 18585) Added a bunch of parameters to the revertpage message No such high bug no.
* (bug 11612) Days to show in recent changes cannot be larger than 7 Sounds like you are saying title=Special:Recentchanges&days=8 is now forbidden.
Also, $ for i in wikipedia-interwiki.sql wiktionary-interwiki.sql; do sed 2!d $i; done -- for Wikipedia. -- for Wikipedia. The 2nd should say "Wiktionary".