[MediaWiki-announce] MediaWiki 1.6.8 released

[Brion Vibber]

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MediaWiki 1.6.8 is a security and bugfix maintenance release of the
Spring 2006 snapshot:

A potential HTML/JavaScript-injection vulnerability in a debugging script
has been fixed. Only versions and configurations of PHP vulnerable to the
$GLOBALS overwrite vulnerability are affected.

As a workaround for existing installs, profileinfo.php may simply be deleted
if it's not being used.

* (bug 5957) Updates to Hebrew translation (he)
* Respect language directionality when displaying arrow in Special:Brokenredirects
* (bug 6415) Typo in Parser.php
* Fixed potential XSS in profileinfo.php


Full release notes:
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/tags/REL1_6_8/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/tags/REL1_6_8/phase3/HISTORY

Download:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wikipedia/mediawiki-1.6.8.tar.gz

MD5 checksum:
4befcbe776f8585efe705b9bd799a488  mediawiki-1.6.8.tar.gz

SHA-1 checksum:
b2ac945ceef2cac253a1e73b9de1da5f79aa7e77 mediawiki-1.6.8.tar.gz


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