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MediaWiki 1.5 beta 4 is a preview release of the new 1.5 release series.

== Changes since 1.5beta3 ==

* Fix talk page move handling * (bug 2721) New language file for Vietnamese with the Vietnamese ~ number notation * (bug 2749) &nbsp; would appear as a literal in image galleries ~ for Cs, Fr, Fur, Pl and Sv * (bug 787) external links being rendered when they only have one slash * Fixed a missing typecast in Language::dateFormat() that would cause ~ some interesting errors with signitures. * (bug 2764) Number format for Nds * (bug 1553) Stop forcing lowercase in Monobook skin for German ~ language. * (bug 1064) Implements Special:Unusedcategories * (bug 2311) New language file for Macedonian * Fix nohistory message on empty page history * Fix fatal error in history when validation on * Cleaned up email notification message formatting * Finally fixed Special:Disambiguations that was broke since SCHEMA_WORK * (bug 2761) fix capitalization of "i" in Turkish * (bug 2789) memcached image metadata now cleared after deletion * Add serialized version number to image metadata cache records * (bug 2780) Fix thumbnail generation with GD for new image schema * (bug 2791) Slovene numeric format * (bug 655) Provide empty search form when searching for nothing * Nynorsk numeric format fix * (bug 2825) Fix regression in newtalk notifications for anons w/ ~ enotif off * (bug 2833) Fix bug in previous fix * With $wgCapitalLinks off, accept off-by-first-letter-case in 'go' ~ match * Optional parameters for [[Special:Listusers]] * (bug 2832) [[Special:Listadmins]] redirects to ~ [[Special:Listusers/sysop]] * (bug 785) Parser did not get out of <pre> with list elements * Some shared upload fixes * (bug 2768) section=new on nonexistent talk page does not add heading * support preload= parameter for section=new * show comment subject in preview when using section=new * use comment form when creating a new talk page * (bug 460) Properly handle <center> tags as a block. * Undo inconsistent editing behavior change * (bug 2835) Back out fix for bug 2802, caused regressions in category ~ sort * PHP 4.1.2 compatibility fix: define floatval() equivalent if missing * (bug 2901) Number format for Catalan * Special:Allpages performance hacks: index memcached caching, removed ~ inverse checkbox, use friendlier relative offsets in index build * Bring back "Chick" skin for mobile devices. It needs testing. * Fix spelling of $wgForwardSearchUrl in DefaultSettings.php * Specify USE INDEX on Allpages chunk queries, sometimes gets lost ~ due to bogus optimization * (bug 275) Section duplication fix * Remove unused use of undefined variable in UserMailer * Fix notice on search index update due to non-array * (bug 2885) Fix fatal errors and notices in PHP 5.1.0beta3 * (bug 2931) Fix additional notices on reference use in PHP 4.4.0 * (bug 2774) Add three new $wgHooks to LogPage which enable extensions ~ to add their own logtypes, see ~ extensions/Renameuser/SpecialRenameuser.php for an example of this. * (bug 740) Messages from extensions now appear in Special:Allmessages * (bug 2857) fixed parsing of lists in <pre> sections * (bug 796) Trackback support * Fix 1.5 regression: weird, backwards diff links on new pages in ~ enhanced RC are now suppressed as before. * New skin: Simple * "uselang" and "useskin" URL parameters can now be used in the URL when ~ viewing a page, to change the language and skin of a page ~ respectively. * Skins can now be previewed in preferences * (bug 2943) AuthPlugin::getCanonicalName() name canonicalization hook, ~ patch from robla * Wrap revision insert & page update in a transaction, rollback on late ~ edit conflict. * (bug 2953) 'other' didn't work in Special:Blockip when localized * (bug 2958) Rollback and delete auto-summary should be in the project's ~ content language * Removed useless protectreason message * Spelling fix: $wgUrlProtcols -> $wgUrlProtocols * Switch Moldovan local name to cyrillic * Fix typo in undefined array index access prevention * (bug 2947) Update namespaces for sr localization * (bug 2952) Added Asturian language file with translated namespaces * (bug 2676) Apply a protective transformation on editing input/output ~ for browsers that hit the Unicode blacklist. Patch by plugwash. * (bug 2999) Fix encoding conversion of pl_title in upgrade1_5.php * compressOld.php disabled, as it's known to be broken.

Release notes: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=345894

Download: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wikipedia/mediawiki-1.5beta4.tar.gz?downl...

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