[MediaWiki-announce] MediaWiki 1.6.7 released

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 MediaWiki 1.6.7 is a security and bugfix maintenance release of the Spring 2006 snapshot: An HTML/JavaScript-injection vulnerability in the edit form has been closed. This vulnerability was new in 1.6.0; MediaWiki versions 1.5.x or earlier are not affected. Extensions, comments, and <nowiki> sections are now handled in a one-pass way which is more reliable and safer. Under earlier versions of MediaWiki, certain extensions could be abused to inject HTML/JavaScript into the page. Additional precautions are made against offsite form submissions when the restricted raw HTML mode is enabled. Some small localization and user interface updates are also included. * (bug 6051) Improvement to German localisation (de) * (bug 6017) Update bookstore list for German language (de) * (bug 6138) Minor grammar tweak in "loginreqlink" * (bug 5957) Update for Hebrew language (he) * Increase robustness of parser placeholders; fixes some glitches when adjacent to identifier-ish constructs such as URLs. * (bug 5384) Fix <!-- comments --> in <ref> extension * Nesting of different tag extensions and comments should now work more consistently and more safely. A cleaner, one-pass tag strip lets the 'outer' tag either take source (<nowiki>-style) or pass it down to further parsing (<ref>-style). There should no longer be surprise expansion of foreign extensions inside HTML output, or differences in behavior based on the order tags are loaded. * (bug 885) Pre-save transform no longer silently appends close tags * Pre-save transform no longer changes the case of close tags * Edit security precautions in raw HTML mode, etc Full release notes: http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/tags/REL1_6_7/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/tags/REL1_6_7/phase3/HISTORY Download: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wikipedia/mediawiki-1.6.7.tar.gz MD5 checksum: cbcba609339abb5688068e5dc379110b mediawiki-1.6.7.tar.gz SHA-1 checksum: b5aadd8240d63c644728d071e4f452d0efacf5bf mediawiki-1.6.7.tar.gz Before asking for help, try the FAQ: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FAQ Low-traffic release announcements mailing list: (Please subscribe to receive announcements of security updates.) http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce Wiki admin help mailing list: http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l Bug report system: http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ Play "stump the developers" live on IRC: #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net - -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)