For those wondering what we've been working on, here's most of it
(from the RELEASE-NOTES at
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/wikipedia/phase3/RELEASE-N…)
* 'live preview' reduces preview reload burden on supported browsers
* support for external editors for files and wiki pages:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:External_editors
* Schema reworking:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposed_Database_Schema_Changes/October_2004
* (bug 15) Allow editors to view diff of their change before actually
submitting an edit
* (bug 190) Hide your own edits on the watchlist
* (bug 510): Special:Randompage now works for other namespaces than NS_MAIN.
* (bug 1015) support for the full wikisyntax in <gallery> captions.
* (bug 1105) A "Destination filename" (save as) added to Special:Upload Upload.
* (bug 1352) Images on description pages now get thumbnailed
regardless of whether the thumbnail is larger than the original.
* (bug 1662) A new magicword, {{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}} returns the
abbreviation of the current month
* (bug 1668) 'Date format' supported for other languages than English,
see:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2005-March/028364.html
* (bug 1739) A new magicword, {{REVISIONID}} give you the article or
diff database revision id, useful for proper citation.
* (bug 1998) Updated the Russian translation.
* (bug 2064) Configurable JavaScript mimetype with $wgJsMimeType
* (bug 2084) Fixed a regular expression in includes/Title.php that was
accepting invalid syntax like #REDIRECT [[foo] in redirects
* It's now possible to invert the namespace selection at
Special:Allpages and Special:Contributions
* No longer using
sorbs.net to check for open proxies by default.
* What was $wgDisableUploads is now $wgEnableUploads, and should be
set to true if one wishes to enable uploads.
* Supplying a reason for a block is no longer mandatory
* Language conversion support for category pages
* $wgStyleSheetDirectory is no longer an alias for $wgStyleDirectory;
* Special:Movepage can now take paramaters like
Special:Movepage/Page_to_move (used to just be able to take paramaters
via a GET request like
index.php?title=Special:Movepage&target=Page_to_move)
* (bug 2151) The delete summary now includes editor name, if only one
has edited the article.
* (bug 2105) Fixed from argument to the PHP mail() function. A missing
space could prevent sending mail with some versions of sendmail.
* (bug 2228) Updated the Slovak translation
* (bug 73) Category sort key is set to file name when adding category
to file description from upload page (previously it would be set to
"Special:Upload", causing problems with category paging)
* (bug 419) The contents of the navigation toolbar are now editable
through the MediaWiki namespace on the MediaWiki:navbar page.
* (bug 498) The Views heading in MonoBook.php is now localizable
* (bug 898) The wiki can now do advanced sanity check on uploaded
files including virus checks using external programs.
* (bug 1692) Fix margin on unwatch tab
* (bug 1906) Generalize project namespace for Latin localization,
update namespaces
* (bug 1975) The name for Limburgish (li) changed from "Lèmburgs"
to "Limburgs
* (bug 2019) Wrapped the output of Special:Version in <div dir='ltr'>
in order to preserve the correct flow of text on RTL wikis.
* (bug 2067) Fixed crash on empty quoted HTML attribute
* (bug 2075) Corrected namespace definitions in Tamil localization
* (bug 2079) Removed links to Special:Maintenance from movepagetext message
* (bug 2094) Multiple use of a template produced wrong results in some cases
* (bug 2095) Triple-closing-bracket thing partly fixed
* (bug 2110) "noarticletext" should not display on Image page for
"sharedupload" media
* (bug 2150) Fix tab indexes on edit form
* (bug 2152) Add missing bgcolor to attribute whitelist for <td> and <th>
* (bug 2176) Section edit 'show changes' button works correctly now
* (bug 2178) Use temp dir from environment in parser tests
* (bug 2217) Negative ISO years were incorrectly converted to BC notation
* (bug 2234) allow special chars in database passwords during install
* Deprecated the {{msg:template}} syntax for referring to templates,
{{msg: is now the wikisyntax representation of wfMsgForContent()
* Fix for reading incorrectly re-gzipped HistoryBlob entries
* HistoryBlobStub: the last-used HistoryBlob is kept open to speed up
multiple-revision pulls
* Add $wgLegacySchemaConversion update-time option to reduce amount of
copying during the schema upgrade: creates HistoryBlobCurStub
reference records in text instead of copying all the cur_text fields.
Requires that the cur table be left in place until/unless such fields
are migrated into the main text store.
* Special:Export now includes page, revision, and user id numbers by
default (previously this was disabled for no particular reason)
* dumpBackup.php can dump the full database to Export XML, with
current revisions only or complete histories.
* The group table was renamed to groups because "group" is a reserved
word in SQL which caused some inconveniances.
* New fileicons for c, cpp, deb, dvi, exe, h, html, iso, java, mid,
mov, o, ogg, pdf, ps, rm, rpm, tar, tex, ttf and txt files based on
the KDE crystalsvg theme.
* Fixed a bug in Special:Newimages that made it impossible to search for '0'
* Added language variant support for Icelandic, now supports "Ãslenzka"
* The #p-nav id in MonoBook is now #p-navigation
* Putting $4 in msg:userstatstext will now give the percentage of
admnistrators out of normal users.
* links and brokenlinks tables merged to pagelinks; this will reduce
pain dealing with moves and deletes of widely-linked pages.
* Add validate table and val_ip column through the updater.
* Simple rate limiter for edits and page moves; set $wgRateLimits
(somewhat experimental; currently needs memcached)
* (bug 2262) Hide math preferences when TeX is not enabled
* (bug 2267) Don't generate thumbnail at the same size as the source image.
* Fix rebuildtextindex.inc for new schema
* Remove linkscc table code, no longer used.
* (bug 2271) Use faster text-only link replacement in image alt text
instead of rerunning expensive link lookup and HTML generation.
* Only build the HTML attribute whitelist tree once.
* Replace wfMungeToUtf8 and do_html_entity_decode with a single
function that does both numeric and named chars:
Sanitizer::decodeCharReferences
* Removed some obsolete UTF-8 converter functions
* Fix function comment in debug dump of SQL statements
* (bug 2275) Update search index more or less right on page move
* (bug 2053) Move comment whitespace trimming from edit page to save;
leaves the whitespace from the section comment there on preview.
* (bug 2274) Respect stub threshold in category page list
* (bug 2173) Fatal error when removing an article with an empty title
from the watchlist
* Removed -f parameter from mail() usage, likely to cause failures and bounces.
* (bug 2130) Fixed interwiki links with fragments
* (bug 684) Accept an attribute parameter array on parser hook tags
* (bug 814) Integrate AuthPlugin changes to support Ryan Lane's
external LDAP authentication plugin
* (bug 2034) Armor HTML attributes against template inclusion and links munging
* (bug 2319) Fix parse hook tag matching
* (bug 2329) Fix title formatting in several special pages
* (bug 2223) Add unique index on user_name field to prevent duplicate accounts
* (bug 1976) fix shared user database with a table prefix set
* (bug 2334) Accept null for attribs in wfElement without PHP warning
* (bug 2309) Allow templates and template parameters in HTML attribute
zone, with proper validation checks. (regression from fix for 2304)
* Disallow close tags and enforce empty tags for <hr> and <br>
* Changed user_groups format quite a bit.
* (bug 2368) Avoid fatally breaking PHP 4.1.2 in a debug line
* (bug 2367) Insert correct redirect link record on page move
* (bug 2372) Fix rendering of empty-title inline interwiki links
* (bug 2384) Fix typo in regex for IP address checking
* (bug 650) Prominently link MySQL 4.1 help page in installer if a
possible version conflict is detected
* (bug 2394) Undo incompatible breakage to {{msg:}} compatiblity includes
* (bug 1322) Use a shorter cl_sortkey field to avoid breaking on MySQL
4.1 when the default charset is set to utf8
* (bug 2400) don't send confirmation mail on account creation if
$wgEmailAuthentication is false.
* (bug 2172) Fix problem with nowiki beeing replaced by marker strings
when a template with a gallery was used.
* Guard Special:Userrights against form submission forgery
* (bug 2408) page_is_new was inverted (whoops!)
* Added wfMsgHtml() function for escaping messages and leaving params intact
* Fix ordering of Special:Listusers; fix groups list so it shows all
groups when searching for a specific group and can't be split across
pages
* (bug 1702) Display a handy upload link instead of a useless blank
link for [[media:]] links to nonexistent files.
* (bug 873) Fix usage of createaccount permission; replaces $wgWhitelistAccount
* (bug 1805) Initialise $wgContLang before $wgUser
* (bug 2277) Added Friulian language file
* (bug 2457) The "Special page" href now links to the current special
page rather than to "".
* (bug 1120) Updated the Czech translation
* A new magic word, {{SCRIPTPATH}}, returns $wgScriptPath
* A new magic word, {{SERVERNAME}}, returns $wgServerName
* A new magic word, {{NUMBEROFFILES}}, returns the number of rows in
the image table
* Special:Imagelist displays titles with " " instead of "_"
* Less gratuitous munging of content sample in delete summary
* badaccess/badaccesstext to supercede sysop*, developer* messages
* Changed $wgGroupPermissions to more cut-n-paste-friendly format
* 'developer' group deprecated by default
* Special:Upload now uses 'upload' permission instead of hardcoding login check
* Add 'importupload' permission to disable direct uploads to Special:Import
* (bug 2459) Correct escaping in Special:Log prev/next links
* (bug 2462 etc) Taking out the experimental dash conversion; it broke
too many things for the current parser to handle cleanly
* (bug 2467) Added a Turkish language file
* Fixed a bug in Special:Contributions that caused the namespace
selection to be forgotten between submits
* Special:Watchlist/edit now has namespace subheadings
* (bug 1714) the "Save page" button now has right margin to seperate
it from "Show preview" and "Show changes"
* Special:Statistics now supports action=raw, useful for bots designed
to arwest e.g. article counts from multiple wikis.
* The copyright confirmation box at Special:Upload is now turned off
by default and can be turned back on by setting
$wgCopyrightAffirmation to a true value.
* Restored prior text for password reminder button and e-mail,
replacing the factually inaccurate text that was there.
* (bug 2178) Fix temp dir check again
* (bug 2488) Format 'deletedtext' message as wikitext
* (bug 750) Keep line endings consistent in LocalSettings.php
* (bug 1577) Add 'printable version' tab in MonoBook for people who
don't realize you can just hit print to get a nicely formatted
printable page.
* Trim whitespace from option values to weather line-ending corruption problems
* Fixed a typo in the Romanian language file (NS_MESIA => NS_MEDIA)
* (bug 2504) Updated the Finnish translation
* (bug 2506) Updated the Nynorsk translation
* (bug 996) Replace $wgWhitelistEdit with 'edit' permission; fixup
UPGRADE documentation about edit and read whitelists.
* (bug 2515) Fix incremental link table update
* Removed some wikipedia-specifica from LanguageXx.php's
* (bug 2496) Allow MediaWiki:edithelppage to point to external page