Merge "SpecialChangePassword: Use Config instead of globals"

[lhc/web/wiklou.git] / RELEASE-NOTES-1.24

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.24 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.24
index 6d13c91..ec4bc0f 100644 (file)
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.24
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.24
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ production.
 * MediaWiki now requires PHP's iconv extension. openSUSE users may need to
   install the php5-iconv package. Users of other systems may need to add
   extension=iconv.so to php.ini or recompile PHP without --without-iconv.
+* MediaWiki will no longer function if magic quotes are enabled. It has
+  been deprecated for 5 years now, and was removed in PHP 5.4.
 * The server's canonical hostname is available as $wgServerName, which is
   exposed in both mw.config and ApiQuerySiteInfo.
 * Introduced $wgPagePropsHaveSortkey as a backwards-compatibility switch,
@@ -40,6 +42,9 @@ production.
   configurations are $wgDeletedDirectory and $wgHashedUploadDirectory.
 * The deprecated $wgUseCommaCount variable has been removed.
 * $wgEnableSorbs and $wgSorbsUrl have been removed.
+* The UserCryptPassword and UserComparePassword hooks are no longer called. Any extensions
+  using them must be updated to use the Password Hashing API.
+* $wgCompiledFiles has been removed.
 
 === New features in 1.24 ===
 * Added a new hook, "WhatLinksHereProps", to allow extensions to annotate
@@ -118,17 +123,24 @@ production.
 * (bug 67042) Added support for the HTML5 <rtc> tag for East Asian typography.
 * Upgrade Sinon.JS to 1.10.3.
 * Added the es5-shim polyfill for older or non-compliant javascript engines.
-* Upgrade jQuery Cookie to v1.2.0.
+* Upgrade jQuery Cookie to v1.3.1.
 * (bug 20476) Add a "viewsuppressed" user right to be able to view
   suppressed content but not suppress it ("suppressrevision" right).
-* Added a new hook, "OutputPageScriptsForBottomQueue", to add modules to the
-  bottom queue that should be requested in a dedicated <script> request.
 * (bug 66440) The MediaWiki web installer will now allow you to choose the skins
   to enable (from the ones included in download tarball) and decide which one
   should be the default.
 * (bug 68085) Links of the form [[localInterwikiPrefix:languageCode:pageTitle]],
   where localInterwikiPrefix is a member of the $wgLocalInterwikis array, will
   no longer be displayed in the sidebar when $wgInterwikiMagic is true.
+* New special page, MyLanguages, to redirect users to subpages with localised
+  versions of a page. (Integrated from Extension:Translate)
+* MediaWiki now supports multiple password types, including bcrypt and PBKDF2.
+  The default type can be changed with $wgPasswordDefault and the type
+  configurations can be changed with $wgPasswordConfig.
+* Skins can now define custom styles for default ResourceLoader modules using
+  the $wgResourceModuleSkinStyles global. See the Vector skin for examples.
+* (bug 4488) There is now a preference to watch pages where the user has
+  rollbacked an edit by default.
 
 === Bug fixes in 1.24 ===
 * (bug 49116) Footer copyright notice is now always displayed in user language
@@ -156,6 +168,8 @@ production.
   for future updates. Because it's doing so heuristically, it may fail or drop
   wrong constraints.
 * (bug 67870) wfShellExec() cuts off stdout at multiples of 8192 bytes.
+* $wgRunJobsAsync now works with private wikis (e.g. read requires login).
+* (bugs 57238, 65206) Blank pages can now be directly created.
 
 === Web API changes in 1.24 ===
 * action=parse API now supports prop=modules, which provides the list of
@@ -269,6 +283,14 @@ changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
 * Removed maintenance script importTextFile.php. Use edit.php script instead.
 * A _from_namespace field has been added to the templatelinks, pagelinks,
   and filelinks tables. Run update.php to apply this change to the schema.
+* Removed File::sha1Base36(). (deprecated since 1.19)
+* Removed File::getPropsFromPath(). (deprecated since 1.19)
+* Removed functions blockedPage(), noCreatePermission(), readOnlyPage() and
+  userNotLoggedInPage() from EditPage.php. (deprecated since 1.19)
+* Removed functions getContent(), getPreloadedText(), mergeChangesInto() and
+  setPreloadedText() from EditPage.php. (deprecated since 1.21)
+* Removed global functions wfArrayLookup(), wfArrayMerge(), wfDebugDieBacktrace()
+  and wfTime(). (deprecated since 1.22)
 
 ==== Renamed classes ====
 * CLDRPluralRuleConverter_Expression to CLDRPluralRuleConverterExpression
@@ -316,6 +338,7 @@ changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
 * HistoryPage - Use HistoryAction directly
 * RawPage - Use RawAction directly
 * StubContLang - Use Language::factory() instead
+* XMLReader2 - Use XMLReader directly
 
 == Compatibility ==