* Added MWTimestamp::getTimezoneString() which returns the localized timezone
string, if available. To localize this string, see the comments of
$wgLocaltimezone in includes/DefaultSettings.php.
+* Added CentralIdLookup, a service that allows extensions needing a concept of
+ "central" users to get that without having to know about specific central
+ authentication extensions.
-== External libraries ==
-=== Upgraded external libraries ===
+=== External library changes in 1.27 ===
+==== Upgraded external libraries ====
+* Updated oojs/oojs-ui from v0.12.12 to v0.13.3.
+* Updated composer/semver from v1.0.0 to v1.2.0.
+* Update liuggio/statsd-php-client to 1.0.18.
-=== New external libraries ===
-* Added wikimedia/cldr-plural-rule-parser v1.0.0
+==== New external libraries ====
+* Added wikimedia/base-convert v1.0.1.
+* Added wikimedia/cldr-plural-rule-parser v1.0.0.
+* Added wikimedia/relpath v1.0.3.
+* Added wikimedia/running-stat v1.1.0.
+
+==== Removed and replaced external libraries ====
=== Bug fixes in 1.27 ===
* Special:Upload will now display correct maximum allowed file size when running
** ApiFormatDbg
** ApiFormatTxt
** ApiFormatYaml
+* ApiQueryBase::getDirectionDescription is now marked as deprecated. It should
+ have been so marked since 1.25 when ApiBase::getParamDescription was
+ deprecated, but was overlooked at the time.
=== Languages updated in 1.27 ===
MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated
regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
-changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
+changes to languages because of Phabricator reports.
* (T113688) Change default numerals from Gurmukhi to Arabic for Punjabi locale.
by and HTML entity encodings of  , <, and >.
* (T36948) The default file revert message's timestamp is now in $wgLocaltimezone,
instead of UTC.
+* The default name of the 'suppress' group page has been changed from
+ 'Project:Oversight' to 'Project:Suppress'.
+* DatabaseBase::resultObject() is now protected (use outside Database classes
+ not necessary since 1.11).
+* Calling ResourceLoaderFileModule::readStyleFiles() without a
+ ResourceLoaderContext instance is deprecated.
+* ResourceLoader::getLessCompiler() now takes an optional parameter of
+ additional LESS variables to set for the compiler.
+* wfBaseConvert() marked as deprecated, use Wikimedia\base_convert() directly instead.
== Compatibility ==