merged experimental branch: here is a draft of the official release notes:
== Unified Search ==
* new unified search model groups and aggregates relevant semantic metadata per search
* advanced search improvements
* improved autocomplete suggestions/display
== Improved Skinning Support ==
* improved skin infrastructure to support the skin created by the Participatory Culture Foundation
== Mv_embed ==
* support multiple stream selection, supports flash stream type (Summer of code Student *stjepan*)
* improved video control skinning (SOC Student *stjepan*)
* flash media server added for serving portions of flvs to arbitrary clients. (based on FLV4PHP)
* Also See
http://metavid.ucsc.edu/wiki/index.php/Mv_embed
== Massive security review (thanks '''tstarling''') ==
* properly escaped all values outputted to browser and database
* proper use of database wrapper functions
* closed some security holes (running older versions of metavid is a bad idea please update now)
== Updated compatibility to JQuery 1.2.6 ==
* updated to latest and greatest (faster, leaner etc)
* Also see
http://docs.jquery.com/Release:jQuery_1.2.6
== Updated compatibility to latest metavidWiki version *1.13* ==
* Also see
http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_13_0RC2/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES
== Updated Compatibility to latest Semantic MediaWiki 1.2 ==
* faster, lazyloading of all classes, better db structure, + lots more
* Also See
http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMW_1.2