The final release candidate for MediaWiki 1.21 (rc5) is available for
download. See the end of this email for details. There are a number of
bug fixes in this release that were not in rc4. Please test this
version and report any problems. Barring any show-stoppers, the final
release will be on May 15 will be the same as this with just a change to
the version number and updated release notes.
Changes since rc4:
* Changes to JS/JSON value encoding were backed out.
* API: Fix parameter validation in setnotificationtimestamp
commit 18eb39ecb5b89518c3d4a6cc79834a2c121477ff
Author: Brad Jorsch <bjorsch(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri Mar 15 14:03:19 2013 -0400
* (bug 47271) $wgContentHandlerUseDB should be set to false during the
upgrade
* (bug 47489) Installer now automatically selects the next-best database
type if
the PHP mysql extension is not loaded, preventing fatal errors in some
cases.
* (bug 47202) wikibits: FF2Fixes.css should not be loaded in Firefox 20.
* (bug 46590) 'AbortChangePassword' hook added/documented (find bug)
* (bug 46848) toggleLinkPremade added linksPassthru
* (bug 47950) Fix IndexPager detection of "is first" state
* (bug 47304) added safeXmlEncodings to UploadBase for svg uploads
* (bug 46608) CoreParserFunctions::anchorencode should return a string
* Full release notes:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.21
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Download:
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http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc5.tar.gz
Patch to previous version (1.20.0), without interface text:
http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc5.patch.gz
Interface text changes:
http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-i18n-1.21.0rc5.patch…
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