From e485f83d8fd659889a2be503a7824006152a1ec3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kunal Mehta Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 13:47:04 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Document external libraries changes in release notes Bug: T1355 Change-Id: If3432d513e053742ef09f1330604e57918ab90b2 --- RELEASE-NOTES-1.25 | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.25 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.25 index caf29f0f27..21d3c8850b 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.25 +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.25 @@ -60,6 +60,31 @@ production. and images for ApiOpenSearch output. The semantics are identical to the "OpenSearchXml" hook provided by the OpenSearchXml extension. +==== External libraries ==== +* MediaWiki now requires certain external libraries to be installed. In the past + these were bundled inside the git repository of MediaWiki core, but now they + need to be installed separately. For users using the tarball, this will be taken + care of and no action will be required. Users using git will either need to use + composer to fetch dependencies or use the mediawiki/vendor repository which includes + all dependencies for MediaWiki core and ones used in Wikimedia deployment. Detailed + instructions can be found at . +* The following libraries are now required: +** psr/log 1.0.0 +*** This library provides the interfaces set by the PSR-3 standard () + which are used by MediaWiki interally by the MWLogger class. +*** See the structured logging RfC () + for more background information. +** cssjanus/cssjanus 1.1.1 +*** This library was formerly bundled with MediaWiki core and has now been removed. It automatically + flips CSS for RTL support. +** leafo/lessphp 0.5.0 +*** This library was formerly bundled with MediaWiki core and has now been removed. It compiles LESS + files into CSS. +** cdb/cdb 1.0.0 +*** This library was formerly a part of MediaWiki core, and has now been split out into a separate library. + It provides CDB functions which are used in the Interwiki and Localization caches. More information + about the library can be found at . + === Bug fixes in 1.25 === * (bug 71003) No additional code will be generated to try to load CSS-embedded SVG images in Internet Explorer 6 and 7, as they don't support them anyway. -- 2.20.1