MediaWiki release candidate 1.17.0rc1

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A release candidate for the MediaWiki 1.17 branch is now available.
Please test it and let us know what you think of it. Barring new bug
reports, this release candidate will soon be released as MediaWiki 1.17.0.

Our thanks go to everyone who helped to improve MediaWiki by testing
the beta release and submitting bug reports. Many bugs have been
fixed, especially in the new installer.

Full release notes:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.17

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Download:
http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.17/mediawiki-1.17.0rc1.tar.gz

Patch to previous version (1.17.0beta1), without interface text:
http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.17/mediawiki-1.17.0rc1.patch.gz
Interface text changes:
http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.17/mediawiki-i18n-1.17.0rc1.patch.gz

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