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I like the way this is done:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.19

And, I don't know what exactly this should be called, but it's often better than the release notes for informing people what the improvements are:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.18

I guess it's kind of a pre-release informational draft thing since it's a work-in-progress long before the release is ready. I'd recommend using the subpages at the mediawiki.org Extension:Translate page to organize releases in that manner. People like me tend to wander by and add things that the devs hadn't thought of. A good example of that are these breaking changes I added for 1.19:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.19#Heads-up_for_MediaWiki_administrators

Those pre-release informational things do a great job of telling people what they need to know. The old-fashioned release notes (or the newer wiki release notes) aren't obsolete, they're just more lengthy, but not necessarily more detailed. 

A combination of the informational thing and the wiki release notes, would be ideal. I think they would give people an opportunity to divide and conquer, which would help reduce the mind-burden on the core devs.

Gerrit change #10866.

Thanks Siebrand