Extension:Realnames/Release notes

This is the changelog for the Extension: extension. This extension is pay-what-you want, please consider purchasing it.

http://olivierbeaton.com/mediawiki#realnames

I always love hearing from my users,

email olivier.beaton@gmail.com

any comments, issues, suggestions or complaints.

0.2 (2011-09-22)
features:
 * replaces username in personnal url bar (where you click login top right vector)
 * allows custom namespace detection $wgRealnamesNamespaces
 * adds support for Extension:Configure (undoc at release)

bugfix:
 * i18n links User: namespaces (thanks Nilsy)
 * support for upcoming 1.18 gendered namespaces
 * title handling for pre 1.16 wiki's
 * custom namespace names

testing:
 * trunk 2011-09-22 stable 1.17.0, 1.16.0, 1.15.5

0.1.1 (2011-09-17)
bugfix:
 * eliminated use of create_function due speed implications (thanks Dantman)
 * changed user caching to realname cache for a smaller memory footprint (thanks Dantman)
 * moved debug handling into class and uses $wgRequest, can expand later for 1.18+ (thanks Dantman)
 * license change to BSD, cc is not recommended for software (says them) (thanks Dantman)
 * fixed author link (backported to 0.1, thanks Dantman)

issues:
 * It may be that this extension is slow on RecentChanges and History pages. If so, I have a solution, but I'd rather not introduce more code if I don't have to. If you experience noticable slowdowns on these pages please let me know at olivier dot beaton at gmail dot com

0.1 (2011-09-17)
initial tested pages:
 * Special:ListUsers
 * old and new Special:RecentChanges
 * Special:Search of the User: space
 * History of page
 * Revisions list of page
 * Revision view of page
 * Revision Compare
 * Page header + html title (limited)
 * Should integrate into any page where user links are found

issues:
 * Always destructive of User: text, new config in future release?
 * improve bare detection on users with spaces or underscores in names (article titles and html title)