activated; when $wgUseVFormCreateAccount is true, the redesign of
Special:UserLogin/signup is activated.
* $wgVectorUseIconWatch is now enabled by default.
+* $wgCascadingRestrictionLevels was added.
+* ftps, ssh, sftp, xmpp, sip, sips, tel, sms, bitcoin, magnet, urn, and geo
+ have been whitelisted inside of $wgUrlProtocols.
+* $wgDocType and $wgDTD have been removed and are no longer used for the DOCTYPE.
+* $wgHtml5 is no longer used by core. Setting it to false will no longer disable HTML5.
+ It is still set to true for extension compatibility but doing so in extensions is deprecated.
+* $wgXhtmlDefaultNamespace is no longer used by core. Setting it will no longer change the
+ xmlns used by MediaWiki. Reliance on this variable by extensions is deprecated.
=== New features in 1.22 ===
* (bug 44525) mediawiki.jqueryMsg can now parse (whitelisted) HTML elements and attributes.
* mediawiki.log: Added log.warn wrapper (uses console.warn and console.trace).
* mediawiki.log: Implemented log.deprecate. This method defines a property and
uses ES5 getter/setter to emit a warning when they are used.
+* $wgCascadingRestrictionLevels was added, allowing one to specify restriction levels
+ which can be cascading (previously 'sysop' was hard-coded as the only one).
+* XHTML5 support has been improved. If you set $wgMimeType = 'application/xhtml+xml'
+ MediaWiki will try outputting markup acording to XHTML5 rules.
=== Bug fixes in 1.22 ===
-* Disable Special:PasswordReset when $wgEnableEmail. Previously one could still
- navigate to the page by entering the URL directly.
+* Disable Special:PasswordReset when $wgEnableEmail is false. Previously one
+ could still navigate to the page by entering the URL directly.
* (bug 47138) Fixed a fatal error when a blocked user tries to automatically
create an account on login due external authentication in some circumstances.
* (bug 23393) HTML <hN> headings containing line breaks are now handled
show the most up to date result always instead of being a revision behind.
* A bias in wfRandomString() toward digits 1-7 has been corrected. Generated
strings will now start with digits 0 and 8-f as often as they should.
+* (bug 45371) Removed Parser_LinkHooks and CoreLinkFunctions classes.
+* (bug 41545) Allow <kbd>, <samp>, and <var> to be nested like allowed in html.
=== API changes in 1.22 ===
* (bug 46626) xmldoublequote parameter was removed. Because of a bug, the
parameter has had no effect since MediaWiki 1.16, and so its removal is
unlikely to impact existing clients.
+* (bug 47216) action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=skins will now indicate which
+ skin is the default and which are unusable (e.g. listed in $wgSkipSkins).
* (bug 25325) Added support for wlshow filtering (bots/anon/minor/patrolled)
to action=feedwatchlist.
* WDDX formatted output will actually be formatted (and normal output will no
stored in the database.
* (bug 47219) Allow specifying change type of Wikipedia feed items
* prop=imageinfo now allows setting iiurlheight without setting iiurlwidth
+* prop=info now adds the content model of the title.
+* New upload log entries will now contain information on the relavent
+ image (sha1 and timestamp).
=== Languages updated in 1.22===
regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
+* (bug 46751) Made Buryat (Russia) (буряад) (bxr) fallback to Russian.
+
=== Other changes in 1.22 ===
* redirect.php was removed. It was unused.
* ClickTracking integration was dropped from the mediaWiki.user.bucket
* (bug 46680) "Return to" links are no longer tagged with rel="next".
* BREAKING CHANGE: mw.util.tooltipAccessKeyRegexp: The match group for the
accesskey character is now $6 instead of $5.
+* HipHop compiler (hphpc) support was removed. HipHop VM support (hhvm) was
+ added.
* A new Special:Redirect page was added, providing lookup by revision ID,
user ID, or file name. The old Special:Filepath page was reimplemented
to redirect through Special:Redirect.
* Monobook: Removed the old conditional stylesheets for Opera 6, 7 and 9.
+* Support for XHTML 1.0 has been removed. MediaWiki now only outputs (X)HTML5.
== Compatibility ==