MediaWiki 1.6.2

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--GoldenChaos 22:18, 8 April 2006 (GMT)

The Wiki has now gone through the major upgrade from 1.5.7 to 1.6.2. This is a bug fix, with various random improvements to the Wiki software. There are some spiffy changes listed inside which you may or may not find interesting.

From mediawiki.org:

What's new in 1.6

User interface:

  • The account creation form has been separated from the user login form.
  • Page protection/unprotection uses a new, expanded form

Templates:

  • Categories and "what links here" now update as expected when adding or removing links in a template.
  • Template parameters can now have default values, as {{{name|default value}}}

Uploads:

  • Optional support for rasterizing SVG images to PNG for inline dislay

Feeds:

  • Feed generation upgraded to Atom 1.0
  • Diffs in RSS and Atom feeds are now colored for improved readability.

Database:

  • MySQL 3.23.x support dropped; 4.0 or later required
  • Experimental support for Unicode mode of MySQL 4.1/5.0 (moderately tested)
  • Experimental Oracle support (not well tested!)

Anti-spam extension support:

  • Spam Blacklist now has support for automated cleanup.
  • Support for a captcha extension to restrict automated spam edits.

Numerous bug fixes and other behind-the-scenes changes have been made; see the file HISTORY for a complete change list.

Compatibility

Older PHP 4.2 and 4.1 releases are no longer supported; PHP 4 users must upgrade to 4.3 or later.

MediaWiki 1.6 is the last major version to support PHP 4; future versions will require PHP 5.

MySQL 3.23.x is no longer supported; some older hosts may need to upgrade. At this time we still recommend 4.0, but 4.1/5.0 will work fine in most cases.


As always, please report any bugs you find. This was a major update, so I wouldn't be surprised if there were some major bugs floating around. Thank you!

Oh, and we have the Spam Blacklisting program installed. This will automatically scan the Wiki for periodic spam and purge it! So look forward to a nice, spam free Wiki.

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