* $wgSquidServersNoPurge now supports the use of Classless Inter-Domain
Routing (CIDR) notation to specify contiguous blocks of IPv4 and/or IPv6
addresses that should be trusted to provide X-Forwarded-For headers.
-* Preferences 'watchcreations' and 'watchdefault' ("Add pages I create and files
- I upload to my watchlist", "Add pages and files I edit to my watchlist") are
- now enabled by default.
+* Preferences 'watchcreations', 'watchdefault', 'enotifwatchlistpages' ("Add
+ pages I create and files I upload to my watchlist", "Add pages and files I
+ edit to my watchlist", "Email me when a page or file on my watchlist is
+ changed") are now enabled by default. In addition new user accounts' personal
+ and talk pages are now watched by them by default.
* $wgLBFactoryConf: Class names have had underscores removed. The configuration
should be updated if LBFactory_Simple or LBFactory_Multi is configured.
* $wgPasswordSenderName has been deprecated. To set a custom mailer name,
the system message 'emailsender' should be modified (default: "{{SITENAME}}").
* $wgDBAhandler was removed as the only class using it was also removed
+* The 'max threads' setting was removed from $wgDBservers.
+* Support for AdminSettings.php has been completely removed. All configuration
+ belongs in LocalSettings.php.
=== New features in 1.23 ===
* ResourceLoader can utilize the Web Storage API to cache modules client-side.
* WikitextContent will now render redirects with the expected "redirect"
header, rather than as an ordered list. Code calling Article::viewRedirect
can probably be changed to no longer special-case redirects.
+* [[Special:Diff]] was added, allowing users to create internal links to
+ revision comparison pages using syntax such as [[Special:Diff/12345]],
+ [[Special:Diff/12345/prev]] or [[Special:Diff/12345/98765]].
+* New user accounts' personal and talk pages are now watched by them by default.
+* Added SkinTemplateGetLanguageLink hook to allow changing the html of language
+ links.
=== Bug fixes in 1.23 ===
* (bug 41759) The "updated since last visit" markers (on history pages, recent
compiled without support for MySQL yet with support for another DBMS.
* (bug 56199) Raw option of parser functions must now match complete word,
to take effect.
+* (bug 60543) Special:PrefixIndex forgot stripprefix=1 for "Next page" link
+* (bug 29762) Undoing an already-undone edit will now display an appropriate
+ message instead of leading the user to make a null edit.
=== Web API changes in 1.23 ===
* (bug 54884) action=parse&prop=categories now indicates hidden and missing
list=usercontribs.
* list=watchlist now uses the querying user's rights rather than the wlowner's
rights when checking whether wlprop=patrol is allowed.
+* (bug 32151) ApiWatch now has pageset capabilities (titles/pageids/generators).
+ Title parameter is now deprecated.
+* (bug 23005) Added action=revisiondelete.
+* Added siprop=restrictions to API action=query&meta=siteinfo for querying
+ possible page restriction (protection) levels and types.
=== Languages updated in 1.23 ===
access operators should continue to work, as it implements the ArrayAccess
interface).
* Option to mark hooks as deprecated has been added.
+* (bug 52811) Preference "Enable section editing via [edit] links" was removed.
+* (bug 52813) Preference "Show table of contents (for pages with more than
+ 3 headings)" was removed.
+* (bug 52810) Preference "Justify paragraphs" was removed.
+* OutputPage::showErrorPage raises a notice if arguments are incoherent.
==== Removed classes ====
* FakeMemCachedClient (deprecated in 1.18)
+* RdfMetaData (unused)
* TitleDependency (unused)
* TitleListDependency (unused)
* WikiError (deprecated in 1.17)