* Moved the global functions to GlobalFunctions.php, where they are now just convenience wrappers. Made them return non-references. Updated callers (none found in extensions).
* Added an advanced configuration method, $wgObjectCaches, which allows a lot more detail in the object cache configuration than $wgMainCacheType.
* Made all object cache classes derive from BagOStuff.
* Split the MWMemcached class into a generic client class and a MediaWiki-specific wrapper class. The wrapper class presents a simple BagOStuff interface to calling code, hiding memcached client internals, and will simplify the task of supporting the PECL extension.
* Added some extra constructor parameters to MWMemcached, configurable via $wgObjectCaches.
* Removed the *_multi() methods from BagOStuff, my grepping indicates that they are not used.
* Rewrote FakeMemCachedClient as a BagOStuff subclass, called EmptyBagOStuff.
* Added an optional "server" parameter to SQLBagOStuff. This allows the server holding the objectcache table to be different from the server holding the core DB.
* Added MultiWriteBagOStuff: a cache class which writes to multiple locations, and reads from them in a defined fallback sequence. This can be used to extend the cache space by adding disk-backed storage to existing in-memory caches.
* Made MWMemcached::get() return false on failure instead of null, to match the BagOStuff documentation and the other BagOStuff subclasses. Anything that was relying on it returning null would have already been broken with SqlBagOStuff.
* Fixed a bug in the memcached client causing keys with spaces or line breaks in them to break the memcached protocol, injecting arbitrary commands or parameters. Since the PECL client apparently also has this flaw, I implemented the fix in the wrapper class.
* Renamed BagOStuff::set_debug() to setDebug(), since we aren't emulating the memcached client anymore
* Fixed spelling error in MWMemcached: persistant -> persistent
* MessageCache::singleton() calls wfGetMessageCacheStorage() directly instead of using $messageMemc, just in case this would be called before that variable is set
* Per TimStarling: also removed deprecated methods in MessageCache class: addMessages() and related, [get|set|enable|disable]Transform(), loadAllMessages(), loadMessageFile() and some others. Same for the legacyData stuff in LocalisationCache that was only used by MessageCache::addMessages() and related.
* Converted remaining extensions
* Don't set $IP. The entry point already sets it, so there's no point. Users can still set it if they can figure out a way to do it without breaking things.
* Don't include DefaultSettings.php. Doing that is code, not configuration, and it can easily be done in WebStart/Maintenance. Some non-standard entry points in extensions may be broken by this. That's their fault for being non-standard. Backwards compatibility is preserved thanks to require_once().
* Introduce $wgInvalidateCacheOnLocalSettingsChange, which when set, causes $wgCacheEpoch to be updated in the way that it previously was in the default LocalSettings.php.
* Don't set $wgLocalInterwiki to some nonsense value (possibly including spaces and punctuation in the new installer). It should be only for actual interwiki prefixes. Since most wikis don't have them, I set this to false by default and adjusted the referring code to accept this.
* Removed the guard for web invocation with $wgCommandLineMode set. This ancient code is redundant with modern protections in doMaintenance.php.
* In DefaultSettings.php, fixed fold terminator placement near $wgLoadScript
* Add a web entry point guard. That's one piece of code which really is necessary.
* This is not complete yet, and should not be used outside of testing. Using it on a production database may ruin everything. This is the reason for the second entry point of new-index.php. You've been warned.
* Known issues are at [[mw:New-installer_issues]]. Please add new items to the list if you find them.
* (bug 2658) Don't use the TZ environment variable at all. Setting it throws an error in some restricted setups. But using it in PHP 5.1+ doesn't make sense anyway, since you'll get the E_STRICT notice described above whenever PHP tries to access it, because Derick hates environment variables. Use date_default_timezone_set().
* If $wgLocaltimezone is null, use the server's timezone as the default for signatures. This was always the behaviour documented in DefaultSettings.php but has not been the actual behaviour for some time: instead, UTC was used by default.
* Reverted HttpFunctions.php to r45549 and renamed wgSyncHTTPTimeout back to wgHTTPTimeout
* Edited out the asynchronous features from UploadFromUrl. Made fetchFile() use the curlCopy() function from new-upload r47811 instead of Http::doDownload(). Wrote my own URL validity check to avoid having to use either of the two buggy precedents.
* Removed UploadFromChunk
* Removed chunk upload and background status from ApiUpload.php
* Reverted r54669, use of addScriptClass()
* Left getHeadScripts() in its current location (OutputPage) instead of moving it back to SkinTemplate, just added wikibits.js to it to replace the removed addCoreScripts2Top()
