[Pkg-mediawiki-devel] [MediaWiki-announce] MediaWiki 1.8.1 released

[Brion Vibber]

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October 11, 2006

MediaWiki 1.8.1 fixes several issues in the Fall 2006 snapshot release:

* Fix PHP notice and estimates for dumpBackup.php and friends
* Improved register_globals paranoia checks
* (bug 7545) Fix PHP version check on install
* Experimental web API disabled by default
* Disable PHP exception backtrace printing unless $wgShowExceptionDetails
  is set. Backtraces may contain sensitive information in function call
  parameters.


Full release notes:
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/tags/REL1_8_1/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/tags/REL1_8_1/phase3/HISTORY

Download:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wikipedia/mediawiki-1.8.1.tar.gz

MD5 checksum:
9693c36a139715c9984495cb6ebc5646  mediawiki-1.8.1.tar.gz

SHA-1 checksum:
7220b680809ca8ac8830ab1c77b2f29d12a115eb mediawiki-1.8.1.tar.gz


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- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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