[MediaWiki-announce] MediaWiki 1.5.1 released

[Brion Vibber]

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MediaWiki 1.5.1 is a bugfix and security maintenance release, and is a
recommended upgrade for all installations.

This release includes further corrections to the inline CSS style
sanitation which works around a JavaScript "feature" on Microsoft
Internet Explorer. Users of Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows may
be vulnerable to XSS injections on prior versions; users of
standards-compliant browsers are not vulnerable.

Major fixes include:
* Image pages work again with resizing disabled
* Works in MySQL 5.0 strict mode

There is experimental support in this release for explicitly declaring
the UTF-8 charset in the database; this has been tested with MySQL
5.0.15 but should work on 4.1 as well.

IMPORTANT: Changing this setting on an existing wiki may produce
interesting data corruption, depending on server configuration. Page
contents should, usually, be unaffected, but page titles and other items
may be. Limitations in MySQL's Unicode support mean that characters
outside the BMP cannot be used in page titles or various other fields
when using this mode.

Table definitions are in maintenance/mysql5/tables.sql, and the runtime
option to send 'SET NAMES utf8' is set by $wgDBmysql5 = true.

(MySQL 3.23.x and 4.0.x do not support character set declarations; on
these versions MediaWiki simply works with UTF-8 data and MySQL is
blissfully unaware of it.)


Release notes:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=366110

Download:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wikipedia/mediawiki-1.5.1.tar.gz?download

MD5 checksum: f2030d3302a899f4e4f2e6d9f3842067
SHA-1 checksum: ff4c843f132ca54ef85b2a15fb42498a54f0ae33

Before asking for help, try the FAQ:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_FAQ

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Bug report system:
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/

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

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