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== What's new in 1.6 ==<br />
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'''User interface:'''<br />
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* The account creation form has been separated from the user login form.<br />
* Page protection/unprotection uses a new, expanded form<br />
* The user preferences have been redesigned.<br />
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'''Templates:'''<br />
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* Categories and "what links here" now update as expected when adding or removing links in a template.<br />
* Template parameters can now have default values, as {{{name|default value}}}<br />
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'''Uploads:'''<br />
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* Optional support for rasterizing SVG images to PNG for inline display<br />
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'''Feeds:'''<br />
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* Feed generation upgraded to Atom 1.0<br />
* Diffs in RSS and Atom feeds are now colored for improved readability.<br />
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'''Database:'''<br />
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* MySQL 3.23.x support dropped; 4.0 or later required<br />
* Experimental support for Unicode mode of MySQL 4.1/5.0 (moderately tested)<br />
* Experimental Oracle support (not well tested!)<br />
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'''Anti-spam extension support:'''<br />
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* [[SpamBlacklist extension]] now has support for automated cleanup.<br />
* Support for a [[ConfirmEdit extension|captcha extension]] to restrict automated spam edits.<br />
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'''New special pages:'''<br />
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* [/wiki/Special:MostCategories Special:Mostcategories] - Articles with the most categories<br />
* [/wiki/Special:MostRevisions Special:Mostrevisions] - Articles with the most revisions (edits)<br />
* [/wiki/Special:ListRedirects Special:Listredirects] - A list of redirects<br />
* [/wiki/Special:MIMESearch Special:MIMEsearch] - Search uploaded files by MIME type<br />
* [/wiki/Special:MostLinkedCategories Special:Mostlinkedcategories] - Most used categories<br />
* [/wiki/Special:MostLinkedFiles Special:Mostimages] - Most used images<br />
* [/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex Special:Prefixindex] - A simplified version of [/wiki/Special:AllPages Special:Allpages]<br />
* [/wiki/Special:WantedCategories Special:Wantedcategories] - Categories that are used but don't exist<br />
* [/wiki/Special:UnwatchedPages Special:Unwatchedpages] - ''(sysop only)'' Pages that don't have anybody watching them.<br />
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Numerous bug fixes and other behind-the-scenes changes have been made.<br />
[[Category:Upgrades]]<br />
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