MediaWiki 1.18

To be released in the future!! Projected deployment date: by 31 August 2011. Release to follow very soon afterwards (perhaps within a month?). From a mid-July meeting:


 * can we get it deployed before Aug 31? RobLa thinks that is reasonable.  Release hopefully not very long after that.  What complicated 1.17 release: installer, postgres support, lack of postgres developers in the 1.17 dev cycle so we had a lot of lastminute postgres bugs.  For 1.18, no radical changes to installer.  So, if good enough to deploy to our site, theoretically not too much of a chore to make it good enough to install.  May be too optimistic.  Brion: in principle, should be able to push out 1.18 release much closer to 1.18 deployment.

See also the full release notes.

What's new?
We bring you new features, bug fixes and new exciting bugs for the next version release. This place will try to give you an overview of the most important features.



MediaWiki now supports women!
Women are most probably the most common gender in the human species, yet we used a neutral to link to their user page. In English this is not an issue since 'user' matches both genders. Since we support other languages, we now adapt the user links to reflect your gender. Be proud to be a male or female!

This feature requires the user to set their gender in their personal preferences.

Rotate pictures


We are now able to verify how the photographer took the photo. Was its camera upside down? We will rotate the picture preview accordingly, the source photo will remain unchanged though.

Stuff!
MediaWiki 1.18 comes with MOAR stuff.