* $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.
+* $wgSortSpecialPages was removed, the listing on Special:SpecialPages is
+ now always sorted.
=== New features in 1.24 ===
* Added a new hook, "WhatLinksHereProps", to allow extensions to annotate
* 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.
* 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
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)
+* Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 is now a "grade C" browser, meaning that
+ JavaScript is no longer executed in this browser.
==== Renamed classes ====
* CLDRPluralRuleConverter_Expression to CLDRPluralRuleConverterExpression