diff --git a/extension.json b/extension.json
index 7a2e5db03e..83c1dc617b 100644
--- a/extension.json
+++ b/extension.json
@@ -1382,6 +1382,7 @@
 				"visualeditor-shortcuts-text-style",
 				"visualeditor-slug-insert",
 				"visualeditor-specialcharacter-button-tooltip",
+				"visualeditor-specialcharacter-recentlyused",
 				"visualeditor-table-context-col",
 				"visualeditor-table-context-row",
 				"visualeditor-table-contextitem-properties",
diff --git a/includes/Hooks.php b/includes/Hooks.php
index c8561c24a1..f592a0dff5 100644
--- a/includes/Hooks.php
+++ b/includes/Hooks.php
@@ -1021,6 +1021,7 @@ class Hooks implements
 		$preferences['visualeditor-findAndReplace-regex'] = $api;
 		$preferences['visualeditor-findAndReplace-matchCase'] = $api;
 		$preferences['visualeditor-findAndReplace-word'] = $api;
+		$preferences['visualeditor-symbolList-recentlyUsed-specialCharacters'] = $api;
 	}
 
 	/**
diff --git a/lib/ve b/lib/ve
index d210240a07..5c98d9b418 160000
--- a/lib/ve
+++ b/lib/ve
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit d210240a0761fe0c4fb4f4bb819564b3364503f8
+Subproject commit 5c98d9b418bb40352e40daae108424bb591f9f01
diff --git a/modules/ve-mw/init/ve.init.mw.Platform.js b/modules/ve-mw/init/ve.init.mw.Platform.js
index 70ab00a23f..56b88fb5c9 100644
--- a/modules/ve-mw/init/ve.init.mw.Platform.js
+++ b/modules/ve-mw/init/ve.init.mw.Platform.js
@@ -177,6 +177,11 @@ ve.init.mw.Platform.prototype.setUserConfig = function ( keyOrValueMap, value )
 	}
 };
 
+/**
+ * @inheritdoc
+ */
+ve.init.mw.Platform.prototype.canUseUserConfig = mw.user.isNamed;
+
 ve.init.mw.Platform.prototype.createLocalStorage = function () {
 	return this.createConflictableStorage( mw.storage );
 };