In WebKit, newlines at the end of input field’s value parameters are removed. This breaks $PRE, so we protect those new lines with a dot and later remove the dot.

Neither I nor Andi has any idea what this file is for and why it explicitly //grants// permission and why its documentation is wrong.

The debug log isn't automatically cleaned so don't write to it when
debugging is disabled and thus nobody is aware that debug output might
be generated.

should we replace the previous javascript based check in the admin
interface with this one as well?

This is a javascript based check, executed from the admin menu. If the
data directory is readable, a warning is displayed. Doing this check in
JavaScript makes sure we have a real client side test (opposed to the
check executed from ?do=check)

Question: should this be localized?

Template authors might need to adjust their CSS

this was broken by d0bdf765

If you subscribed to namespaces other than the root namespace using the
new develonly subscription feature you'll need to renew your
subscriptions.

When creating new pages, no date field is added in the edit form.