consistently everywhere to ensure that setting it to 0 actually does disable the
feature. Also, tell the user that it is disabled if they happen to follow a link
with &action=markpatrolled in it. Additionally, make &action=markpatrolled say
"log in required" if the user is not logged in.
Special:Recentchanges and Special:Newpages until someone "marks" them as
"patrolled" using a special link. For new pages, this link appears at the bottom
of the article if the link in Recent Changes or New Pages is followed. For all
other edits, this link appears only in the diff and only if the diff link is
followed from Recent Changes. (Might need to add this functionality to Watchlist
too; haven't done that yet.)
* DB_WRITE now called DB_MASTER, DB_READ now called DB_SLAVE
* Converted to use SQL wrapper functions instead of direct SQL in various places
* Experimental method for preserving the chronological order of events when slave servers are used. Untested.
* Fixes to the new post-parse existence test feature
* Some.. other stuff
* Enforce whitelist on oldid and diff specifiers (bug 950911)
* Show the titles given for oldid and diff if they differ (UI change related to bug 622636)
* Use canonical text form in $wgWhitelistRead
* Misc. bugs fixed in DatabaseFunctions.php and Skin.php.
* install-utils, install and update utilise Database objects instead of handling their own connections
* schema change for RC improvement -- added rc_type, rc_moved_to_title and rc_moved_to_ns
Adds compressOld.php to batch-compress existing entries.
Article::getRevisionText will do decompression on a given row if
necessary (marked by old_flags). Requires zlib.