* 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
* Moving common special page handling to SpecialPage.php
* Special page lists in the language classes are obsolete, replaced by the list in SpecialPage.php
* Special:Specialpages uses the standard page titles wfMsg(pagename) instead of the description list previously contained in the $wgSpecialPagesEn arrays
* Ability to add custom messages to the MessageCache. Overridable by the MediaWiki namespace.
* Moving board vote functionality from includes/SpecialBoardvote.php to extensions/BoardVote.php
available. Currently using for the message cache to avoid reading
every message separately. This now is only slightly slower than
memcached in my tests when $wgUseDatabaseMessages is enabled, so
it's a bit of a speedup for common hosts.
* Split MediaWiki namespace into MediaWiki and Template (requires changes to all language files)
* Purge links to on edit of Template namespace
* General refactoring of purging and cache invalidation code
elimination of the use of import_request_variables (which gives us all
the insecurity of register_globals). Uncomment the define of DEBUG_GLOBALS
in index.php to turn on extra error reporting and trace down use of
uninitialized variables and nassssty globals.
Also rearranged the magic_quotes fixing, may not yet cover everything...
