Merge "User rights API: Abstract out some stuff about core's form into separate methods"

[lhc/web/wiklou.git] / RELEASE-NOTES-1.25

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@@ -11,10 +11,23 @@ production.
 === Configuration changes in 1.25 ===
 
 === New features in 1.25 ===
+* (bug 58139) ResourceLoaderFileModule now supports language fallback
+  for 'languageScripts'.
+* Added a new hook, "ContentAlterParserOutput", to allow extensions to modify the
+  parser output for a content object before links update.
+* (bug 67341) SVG images will no longer be base64-encoded when being embedded
+  in CSS. This results in slight size increase before gzip compression (due to
+  percent-encoding), but up to 20% decrease after it.
 
 === 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.
 
-=== Web API changes in 1.25 ===
+=== Action API changes in 1.25 ===
+* (bug 65403) XML tag highlighting is now only performed for formats
+  "xmlfm" and "wddxfm".
+
+=== Action API internal changes in 1.25 ===
 
 === Languages updated in 1.25 ===
 
@@ -23,6 +36,23 @@ regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
 changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
 
 === Other changes in 1.25 ===
+* The skin autodiscovery mechanism, deprecated in MediaWiki 1.23, has been
+  removed. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skin_autodiscovery for
+  migration guide for creators and users of custom skins that relied on it.
+* Javascript variable 'wgFileCanRotate' now only available on Special:Upload.
+* (bug 56257) Set site logo from mediawiki.skinning.interface module instead of
+  inline styles in the HTML.
+* Removed ApiQueryUsers::getAutoGroups(). (deprecated since 1.20)
+* Removed XmlDumpWriter::schemaVersion(). (deprecated since 1.20)
+* Removed LogEventsList::getDisplayTitle(). (deprecated since 1.20)
+* Removed Preferences::trySetUserEmail(). (deprecated since 1.20)
+* Removed mw.user.name() and mw.user.anonymous() methods. (deprecated since 1.20)
+* Removed 'ok' and 'err' parameters in the mediawiki.api modules. (deprecated
+  since 1.20)
+* Removed 'async' parameter from the  mw.Api#getCategories() method. (deprecated
+  since 1.20)
+* Removed 'jquery.json' module. (deprecated since 1.24)
+  Use the 'json' module and global JSON object instead.
 
 == Compatibility ==