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RSS/atom feeds added for the last few entries in page histories. (Brion Vibber)
Patrolled status indicated on watchlists; allow users to mark changes as patrolled using diff links there (only works on patrolled wikis). (Rob Church)
Suppressing of error messages allowed for thumbnail rendering issues to prevent transient errors being cached. (Brion Vibber)
Selected namespaces can now be exempted from the rel="nofollow" behaviour on external links. This allows the English Wikipedia, which had been the only one not using nofollow, to implement it outside the article namespace. Brion Vibber indicated that he ultimately intends to enable it everywhere, although this might be in conjunction with a whitelisting option. (Brion Vibber)

MediaWiki:Passwordremindertext now includes a parameter for the website's URL. (Rob Church)
"licenses" now regarded as a message, shown in Special:Allmessages. (Rob Church)
Fix hardcoded "done" when removing watchlist entries. (Anders Wegge Jakobsen)
Self-links wrapped in a "selflink" CSS class. (Rob Church)
"id" CSS attribute added to the undeletion form element. (Ashar Voultoiz)

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I recall reading in one of the mailing lists this week that the "URL normalization" fix was backed out. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 10:57, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

They don't seem fixed… Check these out:

They look good in galleries though:

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