This is an old PHP 4-ism; only needed today if you want to be able to replace the singleton with another object by using the reference as an lval. :)
Killing them because they annoy me.
* Added support for configuration of an arbitrary number of commons-style file repositories.
* Split Image.php into filerepo/File.php and filerepo/LocalFile.php
* Renamed Image::getImagePath() to File::getPath()
* Added initial support for timestamp-based file fetching (OldLocalFile), to be expanded upon by aaron.
* Changed the interface for Image/File object creation: use wfFindFile() or wfLocalFile() depending on semantics
* ImageGallery::add() now accepts a title object as the first parameter
* Moved file handling operations on upload from SpecialUpload to File
* Removed path-related functions from ImageFunctions.php. Removed static path accessors from File.
* Added a Content-Disposition header to thumb.php output
* Improved thumb.php error handling
* Updated the unit test suite to kind of partially work with modern computers. RunTests.php doesn't work just yet. Fixed an actual regression that the test suite detected -- moved some defines to Defines.php where they will be loaded consistently.
to forestall additional UTF-7-autodetect XSS issues. Probably not an
issue on Apache 2.0+, but most servers send only 'text/html' by default
when the script didn't specify more details.
This fixes an issue with the Ajax interface error message on MSIE when
$wgUseAjax is enabled (not default configuration); this UTF-7 variant
on a previously fixed attack vector was discovered by Moshe BA from BugSec:
http://www.bugsec.com/articles.php?Security=24
* Trackback responses now specify XML content type
* Deleted DatabaseMysql.php, no longer necessary, database classes are autoloaded.
* Moved wfGetMimeMagic() to MimeMagic::singleton()
* Fixed a couple of __CLASS__.'::'.__FUNCTION__ things.
