more notes1.9.0rc1

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@@ -18,6 +18,81 @@ will be made on the development trunk and appear in the next quarterly release.
 Those wishing to use the latest code instead of a branch release can obtain
 it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
 
+== Compatibility changes ==
+
+=== Zend Optimizer ===
+
+A bug in some versions of PHP 5 and Zend Optimizer which was triggered under
+MediaWiki 1.8.x has been worked around by disabling some internal debugging
+features when Zend Optimizer is loaded. This should solve some common
+"blank page" problems.
+
+=== PHP 5.0 64-bit ===
+
+MediaWiki now checks for a condition where PHP 5.0.x corrupts array data
+on 64-bit systems and warns you to upgrade PHP to solve the problem. This
+bug causes Special: pages to fail on affected systems under MediaWiki 1.8
+and higher, and subtler data corruption on earlier versions.
+
+The only known workaround is to upgrade PHP to 5.1 or later, which you
+probably should do anyway for security reasons!
+
+=== MySQL 5 ===
+
+MediaWiki should now install and run correctly on MySQL 5.0 and higher when
+MySQL's "strict mode" is enabled. (This is now the default for many Windows
+installations, though it seems to remain off by default on Unix.)
+
+This fixes errors about "cannot default default value for BLOB/TEXT fields".
+
+=== ImageMagick ===
+
+Note that ImageMagick older than 6.x may no longer work for image resizing
+due to use of the -thumbnail option.
+
+
+== Behavior changes ==
+
+=== Localized special pages ===
+
+The names of Special: pages can now be localized, so links and URLs to them
+are more legible in languages that aren't English.
+
+Not all languages have included localized names yet.
+
+=== E-mail password ===
+
+Users are now required to set a new password for themselves when they first
+log in with a newly generated e-mailed password.
+
+Requesting passwords frequently is prevented to reduce abusive mailbombing.
+
+=== Undo revision ===
+
+An "undo" link now appears in diff view for easier reverting of older edits.
+When GNU diff3 is available for edit conflict merging, this can make it much
+easier to "undo" the changes of an older edit when there are surrounding
+changes elsewhere in the page.
+
+The changes must be manually reviewed and approved, as with conventional
+full-revision reverts.
+
+=== Blocking ===
+
+User blocks can be set to disable the automatic blocking of IP addresses the
+account logs in with.
+
+
+== Database changes ==
+
+* new 'redirect' table stores data on page redirects
+* new 'querycachetwo' table used for some cached special pages
+* 'ipblocks' table adds 'ipb_enable_autoblock'
+* 'recentchanges' table adds 'rc_old_len', 'rc_new_len' for size tracking
+* 'user' table has added 'user_newpass_time' and 'user_editcount' fields
+* some indexes have been updated on 'recentchanges'
+
+
 == Configuration changes ==
 
 Several configuration options have changed since 1.8:
@@ -175,9 +250,6 @@ files. Custom extensions can add their test files to this array, and
 they will be run along with the main tests by maintenance/parserTests.php
 
 
-== Major new features ==
-
-
 == Changes since 1.8 ==
 
 * (bug 8200) Make category lists sorted by name when using Postgres.