* The 'protect' and 'autoconfirmed' rights are no longer used for the default
page protection levels. The rights 'editprotected' and 'editsemiprotected'
are now used for this purpose instead.
+* (bug 40866) wgOldChangeTagsIndex removed.
=== New features in 1.22 ===
* (bug 44525) mediawiki.jqueryMsg can now parse (whitelisted) HTML elements and attributes.
also granting the ability to protect and unprotect.
* (bug 48256) Make brackets in section edit links accessible to CSS.
They are now wrapped in <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" />.
+* (bug 8480) Allow handler specific parameters in galleries (like page number)
+* jquery.client: Add detection for Opera 15 and Internet Explorer 11.
+* Change tags (used by the AbuseFilter extension) are now shown on diff pages.
+* Change tag lists (shown on recent changes, watchlist, user contributions,
+ history pages, diff pages) now include a link to Special:Tags to distinguish
+ them from edit summaries.
+* Added a new method and hook, User::isEveryoneAllowed() and
+ UserIsEveryoneAllowed, for use in situations where a "does everyone have this
+ right?" check is used to avoid more expensive checks.
+* Display "(No difference)" instead of an empty diff (when comparing revisions
+ in the history or when previewing changes while editing).
=== Bug fixes in 1.22 ===
* Disable Special:PasswordReset when $wgEnableEmail is false. Previously one
the #toc CSS id and the .toc CSS class). However, particularly bad abuse of
the id or the class can possibly break.
* CSSJanus now supports rgb, hsl, rgba, and hsla color syntaxes.
+* Special:Listfiles can no longer be sorted by image name when filtering
+ by user in miser mode.
+* (bug 49074) CSSJanus: Handle values of border-radius correctly.
+* Handle relative inclusions ({{../name}}) in main namespace with subpages
+ enabled correctly (previously MediaWiki tried to include Template:Parent/name
+ instead of just Parent/name).
+* Added $wgAPIUselessQueryPages to allow extensions to flag their query pages
+ for non-inclusion in ApiQueryQueryPages.
=== API changes in 1.22 ===
* (bug 25553) The JSON output formatter now leaves forward slashes unescaped
* (bug 48201) action=parse&text=foo now assumes wikitext if no title is given,
rather than using the content model of the page "API".
* action=watch may now return errors.
+* (bug 50785) action=purge with forcelinkupdate=1 no longer queues refreshLinks
+ jobs in the job queue for link table updates of pages that use the given page
+ as a template. Instead, forcerecursivelinkupdate=1 is introduced and should
+ be used if that behaviour is desirable.
+* The 'debugLog' property (enabled by $wgDebugToolbar) no longer sets the log
+ entry values through ApiResult::content but directly. This changes the JSON
+ output from an array of objects with content in '*' to an array of strings
+ with the content.
+* (bug 51342) prop=imageinfo iicontinue now contains the dbkey, not the text
+ version of the title.
=== Languages updated in 1.22===
* (bug 48256) The 'editsection-brackets' optional message was removed.
Section edit links' brackets can now be customized using CSS by
styling span.mw-editsection-bracket.
+* The usePatrol function in ChangesList has been marked as deprecated.
+* (bug 50785) A "null edit", that is, a save action in which no changes to the
+ page text are made and no revision recorded, will no longer send refreshLinks
+ jobs to the job table to update pages which use the edited page as a template.
== Compatibility ==