Mediawiki v1.4.0 Release Notes

    • (bug 65) Fix broken interwiki link encoding on Latin-1 wikis; force to UTF-8
    • (bug 563) Fix UTF-8 interwiki URL redirects via Latin-1 wikis
    • (bug 1536) Fix page info
    • ๐Ÿ‘Œ Support os (Ossetic) as language code, using Russian localization base
    • ๐Ÿ‘ (bug 1610) Support non (Old Norse) as language code, using Icelandic localization base
    • (bug 1618) Properly list custom namespaces in Special:Allpages
    • ๐Ÿšš (bug 1622) Remove trailing' >' when using category browser
    • ๐Ÿ”€ (bug 1570) Fix php 4.2.x error on conflict merging
    • (bug 1585) Fix page title on post-login redirection page
    • โš™ Run UTF-8 validation on old text in Recentchanges RSS diffs
    • (bug 1642) fix a mime type typo in img_auth.php
    • Automated interwiki redirects only for local interwikis
    • Respect read-only mode on block removals
    • Trim old illegal characters from syndication feeds
    • โฌ‡๏ธ Reduce message cache outage recovery delay from 1 day to 5 minutes
    • โšก๏ธ (bug 1403) Update Finnish localization
    • (bug 1478) Punjabi localization
    • โšก๏ธ (bug 1667) Update script 5 second countdown.
    • ๐ŸŒฒ (bug 1057) Fix logging table encoding (error on MySQL 4.1)
    • (bug 1680) Fix linktrail for fo
    • (bug 1653) Removing hardcoded messages in Special:Allmessages
    • (bug 1594) Render a hyphen in a formula as − in HTML
    • 0๏ธโƒฃ (bug 1495) Fall back to default language MediaWiki: for custom messages
    • (bug 1617) Show different error messages for "user does not exist" and "wrong password" when using AuthPlugin
    • (bug 1532), (bug 1544) Changed language names for 'bn', 'bo', 'dv', 'dz', 'ht', 'ii', 'li', 'lo', 'ng', 'or', 'pa', 'si', 'ti', 've'
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix editing on non-Esperanto wiki with user language pref set to Esperanto
    • 0๏ธโƒฃ Make conversion table for zh-sg default to zh-cn, and zh-hk default to zh-tw
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix PHP notice in MonoBook when counters disabled
    • โšก๏ธ (bug 1696) Update namespaces, dates in uk localization
    • (bug 551) Installer warns about magic_quotes_runtime and magic_quotes_sybase instead of trying to install with corrupt table files
    • ๐Ÿšš Installer no longer tries to move non-default MediaWiki: pages into Template:
    • 0๏ธโƒฃ User-to-user email disabled by default ($wgEnableUserEmail)