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Summary of selected changes in 1.17
Selected changes since MediaWiki 1.16 that may be of interest:
A new installer has been introduced. It has a wizard-style interface which is translated into many languages. Many shortcomings in the old installer were addressed with this rewrite. Note that it is no longer required for the config directory to be made writable by the webserver. Instead the generated LocalSettings.php file is offered as a download, which you must then upload to the wiki's base directory.
ResourceLoader, a new framework for delivering client-side resources such as JavaScript and CSS, has been introduced. These resources are now delivered through the new entry point script "load.php", instead of as static files served directly by the web server. This allows minification, compression and client-side caching to be used more effectively, which should provide a net performance improvement for most users.
Category sorting has been improved.
Sorting is now case insensitive.
Sub-categories, pages and files can now be paged separately.
When several pages are given the same sort key, they sort by their names instead of randomly.
The lowest supported version of PHP is now 5.2.3. If necessary, please upgrade PHP prior to upgrading MediaWiki.
Summary of selected changes in 1.16
Selected changes since MediaWiki 1.15 that may be of interest:
Watchlists now have RSS/Atom feeds. RSS feeds generally are now hidden, since Atom is a better protocol and is supported by virtually all clients.
It's now possible to block users from sending email via Special:Emailuser.
The maintenance script system was overhauled. Most maintenance scripts now have a useful help page when you run them with --help.
AdminSettings.php is no longer required in order to run maintenance scripts. You can just set $wgDBadminuser and $wgDBadminpassword in your LocalSettings.php instead.
The preferences system was overhauled. Preferences are stored in a more compact format. Changes to site default preferences will automatically affect all users who have not chosen a different preference.
Support for SQLite was improved. Some broken features were fixed, and it now has an efficient full-text search.
The user groups ACL system was improved by allowing rights to be revoked, instead of just granted.
A new localisation caching system was introduced, which will make MediaWiki faster for almost everyone, especially when lots of extensions are enabled.
By default, this new system makes a lot of database queries. If your database is particularly slow, or if your system administrator limits your query count, or if you want to squeeze as much performance as possible out of Mediawiki, set $wgCacheDirectory to a writable path on the local filesystem. Make sure you have the DBA extension for PHP installed, this will improve performance further.
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$NetBSD: distinfo,v 1.10 2011/07/08 08:19:27 abs Exp $
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SHA1 (mediawiki-1.17.0.tar.gz) = 1d08e1832264311c94e027f31aa997ef84944b6d
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Size (mediawiki-1.17.0.tar.gz) = 14369593 bytes
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