This release improves spam handling via CAPTCHA support. Support for blocking problem users was added. Search was improved via a Lucene upgrade. Support for filtering results by namespace was improved. Image gallery support was added. An enhanced edit toolbar is included. Support for creation of custom parser tags was added. Smaller changes include bug fixes, performance enhancements, and translation updates.
This release offers improved MediaWiki syntax compatibility (including many template improvements), vastly improved image rendering, virtual wiki enhancements, and performance improvements, as well as many smaller changes, bugfixes, and translation updates.
This release resolves some parser issues, fixes an error in the Special:Roles screen, and fixes a bug that blocked the ability to migrate from one database to another.
This release fixed issues including incorrect magic word output, an error when parsing deleted topics, and a cache issue with case-insensitive topic names.
This release offers vastly improved performance and scalability, improved Mediawiki Syntax Compatibility (including significant template updates), and improved namespace support. In addition there have been many smaller changes, bugfixes, and translation updates.
