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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').

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)

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If I read it right, the revision caching. jam es^(talk) 09:01, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You are correct. It's the revision caching. Stream water 14:00, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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