MediaWiki 1.19.0beta1

I'm happy to announce the availability of the first beta release of the new
MediaWiki
1.19 release series.

Please try it out and let us know what you think. Don't run it on any wikis
that you really
care about, unless you are both very brave and very confident in your
MediaWiki
administration skills.

MediaWiki 1.19 is a large release that contains many new features and bug
fixes. This is a
summary of the major changes of interest to users. You can consult the
RELEASE-NOTES-1.19 file for the full list of changes in this version.

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                             What's new?
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MediaWiki 1.19 brings the usual host of various bugfixes and new features.

Comprehensive list of what's new is in the release notes.

* Bumped MySQL version requirement to 5.0.2.
* Disable the partial HTML and MathML rendering options for Math,
  and render as PNG by  default.
  * MathML mode was so incomplete most people thought it simply didn't work.
* New skins/common/*.css files usable by skins instead of having to copy
piles of
  generic styles from MonoBook or Vector's css.