Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-09-18/Technology report

Enhancements

 * Set Vary: Cookie on action=raw generated CSS and JS, to ensure that user preferences don't get stuck in proxy caches for other people
 * Add page_no_title_convert field to support language variant conversion for page titles which shouldn't be converted on display/linking
 * Lazy extraction of text chunks in Revision objects, may reduce hits to external storage when actual text content is not used
 * Added experimental $wgRevisionCacheExpiry to cache extracted revision text in $wgMemc, to further reduce hits to external storage.
 * Set to 0 (disabled) by default.
 * Minor changes to the installer.
 * Remove ":" for 'youremail' and 'yourrealname' in includes/templates/Userlogin.php so that ":" could be used in i18n for Special:Preferences (like 'username' and 'uid').

Bugs

 * Normalize username filter on Special:Newpages (Brion Vibber)
 * RTL text in an LTR wiki breaks appearance of Special:Recentchanges (Rotem Liss)
 * Don't emit SET NAMES utf8 if connection failed (Brion Vibber)
 * Proper compare for bot check on RC notify, should fix overrides that force edits by non-bot users to bot mode (Brion Vibber)
 * Fix error message for failure of Database::sourceFile (Jimmy Collins)
 * Plurals: use singular form for zero in French and Brazilian Portuguese (Brion Vibber)

In other languages

 * Fix grammatical errors in Danish naming of talk namespaces. (Brion Vibber)