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| 5 | 5 | setting since version 1.2.0. If you have it on, turn it '''off''' if you can. |
| 6 | 6 | |
| 7 | 7 | == MediaWiki 1.18 == |
| | 8 | +2011-11-24 |
| 8 | 9 | |
| 9 | | -THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET |
| | 10 | +This is the first stable release of the MediaWiki 1.18 branch. |
| 10 | 11 | |
| 11 | | -This is a release candidate of the MediaWiki 1.18 branch. Please test it and let us |
| 12 | | -know what you think of it. Beta releases are not recommended for use in |
| 13 | | -production. |
| | 12 | +=== Summary of selected changes in 1.18 === |
| 14 | 13 | |
| 15 | | -=== Changes since 1.18 RC1 === |
| | 14 | +Selected changes since MediaWiki 1.17 that may be of interest: |
| | 15 | + |
| | 16 | +* Some of the more commonly used MediaWiki extensions are now included in the |
| | 17 | + release tarball. These extensions are ConfirmEdit, Gadgets, Nuke, ParserFunctions, |
| | 18 | + Renameuser, Vector and WikiEditor. |
| | 19 | + |
| | 20 | +* Gender support has been improved, meaning user pages can display the correct gender |
| | 21 | + variant of "User" can now be used. |
| | 22 | + |
| | 23 | +* MediaWiki can now detect the camera orientation of an image from the Exif metadata, and |
| | 24 | + can rotate the image thumbnail appropriately. Metadata support has been generally |
| | 25 | + improved, and can now extract IPTC and XMP metadata. |
| | 26 | + |
| | 27 | +* Improved directionality support in 1.18 means that MediaWiki is better to use for |
| | 28 | + RTL users. |
| | 29 | + |
| | 30 | +* MediaWiki now supports protocol - relative URLs in links, interwiki targets and $wgServer |
| | 31 | + |
| | 32 | +* Math support has been removed from core |
| | 33 | + |
| | 34 | +=== Changes since 1.18.0rc1 === |
| 16 | 35 | * (bug 32228) regression in Special:Search which did not conserve profile on new search |
| 17 | 36 | * (bug 32460) Categories were improperly aligned in Simple and CologneBlue |
| 18 | 37 | * (bug 32412) TOC links on [[Special:EditWatchlist]] points to the fieldsets |
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| 34 | 34 | /** @endcond */ |
| 35 | 35 | |
| 36 | 36 | /** MediaWiki version number */ |
| 37 | | -$wgVersion = '1.18.0rc1'; |
| | 37 | +$wgVersion = '1.18.0'; |
| 38 | 38 | |
| 39 | 39 | /** Name of the site. It must be changed in LocalSettings.php */ |
| 40 | 40 | $wgSitename = 'MediaWiki'; |