* $wgPasswordSenderName has been removed and is no longer functional. To set a
custom mailer name, the system message 'emailsender' should be modified
(default: "{{SITENAME}}").
+* (bug 63269) Email notifications were not correctly handling the
+ [[MediaWiki:Helppage]] message being set to a full URL (the default).
+ If you customized [[MediaWiki:Enotif body]] (the text of email notifications),
+ you'll need to edit it locally to include the URL via the new variable
+ $HELPPAGE instead of the parser functions fullurl and canonicalurl; otherwise
+ you don't have to do anything.
* $wgDBAhandler was removed as the only class using it was also removed
* The 'max threads' setting was removed from $wgDBservers.
* Support for AdminSettings.php has been completely removed. All configuration
* (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.
+ 'mediawiki.skinning.elements', 'mediawiki.skinning.content', and
+ 'mediawiki.skinning.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.
+ the two skins now load the 'mediawiki.skinning.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.