diff --git a/LinkTitles.body.php b/LinkTitles.body.php
index 1c3ecfc..71e4602 100755
--- a/LinkTitles.body.php
+++ b/LinkTitles.body.php
@@ -79,9 +79,11 @@
 			global $wgLinkTitlesFirstOnly;
 			global $wgLinkTitlesWordStartOnly;
 			global $wgLinkTitlesWordEndOnly;
+			global $wgLinkTitlesIgnoreCase;
 
 			( $wgLinkTitlesWordStartOnly ) ? $wordStartDelim = '\b' : $wordStartDelim = '';
 			( $wgLinkTitlesWordEndOnly ) ? $wordEndDelim = '\b' : $wordEndDelim = '';
+			( $wgLinkTitlesIgnoreCase ) ? $regexModifier = 'i' : $regexModifier = '';
 
 			// To prevent adding self-references, we now
 			// extract the current page's title.
@@ -148,7 +150,7 @@
 						// even indexes will point to text that is not enclosed by brackets
 						$arr[$i] = preg_replace( '/(?<![\:\.\@\/\?\&])' .
 							$wordStartDelim . '(' . $safeTitle . ')' . 
-							$wordEndDelim . '/i', '[[$1]]', $arr[$i], $limit, $count );
+							$wordEndDelim . '/' . $regexModifier , '[[$1]]', $arr[$i], $limit, $count );
 						if (( $limit >= 0 ) && ( $count > 0  )) {
 							break; 
 						};
diff --git a/LinkTitles.php b/LinkTitles.php
index 78b3cf3..26b0308 100755
--- a/LinkTitles.php
+++ b/LinkTitles.php
@@ -42,13 +42,14 @@
 	$wgLinkTitlesFirstOnly = false;
 	$wgLinkTitlesWordStartOnly = true;
 	$wgLinkTitlesWordEndOnly = true;
+	$wgLinkTitlesIgnoreCase = true;
 
   $wgExtensionCredits['parserhook'][] = array(
     'path'           => __FILE__,
     'name'           => 'LinkTitles',
     'author'         => '[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Bovender Daniel Kraus]', 
     'url'            => 'http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LinkTitles',
-    'version'        => '1.6.1',
+    'version'        => '1.7.0',
     'descriptionmsg' => 'linktitles-desc'
     );
 
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 21d55da..e23582d 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+LinkTitles 1.7.0: 2013-01-22
+* Added new option to do exact searches of page titles; the default is to
+  do __case-insensitive__ searches as before ($wgLinkTitlesIgnoreCase).
+
 LinkTitles 1.6.1: 2012-12-31
 * Fixed a bug that caused linking to fail in certain situations when
   $wgLinkTitlesFirstOnly was set to true.
@@ -13,7 +17,7 @@ LinkTitles 1.4.0: 2012-10-09
 * Added new option to skip template variables.
 
 LinkTitles 1.3.2: 2012-10-05
-* Fix incorrect handling of PreverShortTitles option.
+* Fix incorrect handling of PreferShortTitles option.
 
 LinkTitles 1.3.1: 2012-10-05
 * Fix typo that prevented proper function of the extension.
diff --git a/release/LinkTitles-1.8.0.tar.gz b/release/LinkTitles-1.8.0.tar.gz
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