* $wgSquidServersNoPurge now supports the use of Classless Inter-Domain
Routing (CIDR) notation to specify contiguous blocks of IPv4 and/or IPv6
addresses that should be trusted to provide X-Forwarded-For headers.
+* Preferences 'watchcreations' and 'watchdefault' ("Add pages I create and files
+ I upload to my watchlist", "Add pages and files I edit to my watchlist") are
+ now enabled by default.
+* $wgLBFactoryConf: Class names have had underscores removed. The configuration
+ should be updated if LBFactory_Simple or LBFactory_Multi is configured.
+* $wgPasswordSenderName has been deprecated. To set a custom mailer name,
+ the system message 'emailsender' should be modified (default: "{{SITENAME}}").
=== New features in 1.23 ===
* ResourceLoader can utilize the Web Storage API to cache modules client-side.
those protection levels.
* Added $wgAPIFormatModules, allowing extensions to add additional output
formatting modules for the API.
+* (bug 47812) The MediaWiki:Group-user.{css,js} pages can now be used to add
+ custom CSS or JavaScript enabled only for registered users.
+* (bug 52005) Special pages RecentChanges, RecentChangesLinked and Watchlist
+ now include a legend describing the symbols used in lists of changes.
+* Improved the accessibility of the tabs in Special:Preferences.
+* Added ApiBeforeMain hook, roughly equivalent to the BeforeInitialize hook:
+ it's called after everything is set up but before any major processing
+ happens.
=== Bug fixes in 1.23 ===
* (bug 41759) The "updated since last visit" markers (on history pages, recent
* (bug 57098) SpecialPasswordReset now obeys returnto parameter
* (bug 37812) ResourceLoader will notice when a module's definition changes and
recompile it accordingly.
+* (bug 57201) SpecialRecentChangesFilters hook is now executed for feeds.
=== API changes in 1.23 ===
* (bug 54884) action=parse&prop=categories now indicates hidden and missing
* EditPage::spamPage() was deprecated since 1.17 and has been removed.
* action=parse&prop=languageshtml was deprecated in 1.18 and will be removed in
MediaWiki 1.24.
-
-=== Languages updated in 1.23===
+* action=parse now has disabletoc flag to disable table of contents in output.
+* SpecialRecentChanges::feedSetup() was removed.
+* (bug 25702) list=allcategories, list=allimages, list=alllinks, list=allpages,
+ list=deletedrevs and list=filearchive did not handle case-sensitivity
+ properly for all parameters.
+* ApiQueryBase::titlePartToKey allows an extra parameter that indicates the
+ namespace in order to properly capitalize the title part.
+* Renamed classes:
+ - LBFactory_Fake to LBFactoryFake
+ - LBFactory_Multi to LBFactoryMulti
+ - LBFactory_Simple to LBFactorySimple
+ - LBFactory_Single to LBFactorySingle
+ - LoadBalancer_Single to LoadBalancerSingle
+ - LoadMonitor_MySQL to LoadMonitorMySQL
+ - LoadMonitor_Null to LoadMonitorNull
+* Removed methods:
+ - Exif::getFormattedData() (deprecated in 1.18)
+ - Exif::makeFormattedData() (deprecated in 1.18)
+ - Linker::makeBrokenLink() (deprecated in 1.16)
+ - Linker::makeBrokenLinkObj() (deprecated in 1.16)
+ - Linker::makeColouredLinkObj() (deprecated in 1.16)
+ - Linker::makeSizeLinkObj() (deprecated in 1.17)
+
+=== Languages updated in 1.23 ===
MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated
regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
* User::getPageRenderingHash() was deprecated since 1.17 and has been removed.
* The ExpandTemplates extension has been moved into MediaWiki core.
* (bug 52812) Removed "Disable search suggestions" from Preference.
+* (bug 52809) Removed "Disable browser page caching" from Preference.
+* Three new modules intended for use by custom skins were added:
+ 'skins.common.elements', 'skins.common.content', and 'skins.common.interface',
+ representing three levels of standard MediaWiki styling. Previously skin
+ creators wishing to use them had to refer to the file names of appropriate
+ files directly, which is now discouraged.
+* The modules 'skins.vector' and 'skins.monobook' have been renamed to
+ 'skins.vector.styles' and 'skins.monobook.styles', respectively,
+ and their definition was changed not to include the common*.css files;
+ the two skins now load the 'skins.common.interface' module instead.
+* A page_links_updated field has been added to the page table.
+* SpecialPage::getTitle has been deprecated in favor of
+ SpecialPage::getPageTitle.
== Compatibility ==