* $wgRateLimitLog was removed; use $wgDebugLogGroups['ratelimit'] instead.
* Deprecated API formats dbg, txt, and yaml have been removed.
* CLDRPluralRule* classes have been replaced with wikimedia/cldr-plural-rule-parser.
+* Removed $wgProfilePerHost, $wgUDPProfilerHost, $wgUDPProfilerPort,
+ $wgUDPProfilerFormatString, $wgStatsMethod, $wgAggregateStatsID, $wgStatsFormatString,
+ and $wgProfileCallTree (deprecated since 1.20).
+* For proper operation of LocalIdLookup with shared user tables, ensure that
+ $wgSharedDB and $wgSharedTables are properly set even on the "central" wiki
+ that all others are sharing from and that $wgLocalDatabases is set to the
+ full list of sharing wikis on all those wikis.
=== New features in 1.27 ===
* $wgDataCenterId and $wgDataCenterRoles where added, which will serve as
authentication extensions.
* $wgMaxUserDBWriteDuration added to limit huge user-generated transactions.
Regular web request transactions that takes longer than this are aborted.
+* Added a new hook, 'TitleMoveCompleting', which runs before a page move is committed.
+* $wgCdnReboundPurgeDelay was added to provide secondary delayed purges of URLs
+ from CDN to mitigate DB replication lag and WAN cache purge lag.
=== External library changes in 1.27 ===
==== Upgraded external libraries ====
* 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.
+* Obsolete maintenance scripts clearCacheStats.php and showCacheStats.php
+ were removed. The underlying data is sent to StatsD (see $wgStatsdServer).
== Compatibility ==