Merge "Edit warning should get value from editors"

[lhc/web/wiklou.git] / RELEASE-NOTES-1.24

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.24 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.24
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@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ production.
 * MediaWiki now requires PHP's iconv extension. openSUSE users may need to
   install the php5-iconv package. Users of other systems may need to add
   extension=iconv.so to php.ini or recompile PHP without --without-iconv.
+* MediaWiki will no longer function if magic quotes are enabled. It has
+  been deprecated for 5 years now, and was removed in PHP 5.4.
 * The server's canonical hostname is available as $wgServerName, which is
   exposed in both mw.config and ApiQuerySiteInfo.
 * Introduced $wgPagePropsHaveSortkey as a backwards-compatibility switch,
@@ -40,6 +42,8 @@ production.
   configurations are $wgDeletedDirectory and $wgHashedUploadDirectory.
 * The deprecated $wgUseCommaCount variable has been removed.
 * $wgEnableSorbs and $wgSorbsUrl have been removed.
+* The UserCryptPassword and UserComparePassword hooks are no longer called. Any extensions
+  using them must be updated to use the Password Hashing API.
 
 === New features in 1.24 ===
 * Added a new hook, "WhatLinksHereProps", to allow extensions to annotate
@@ -118,7 +122,7 @@ production.
 * (bug 67042) Added support for the HTML5 <rtc> tag for East Asian typography.
 * Upgrade Sinon.JS to 1.10.3.
 * Added the es5-shim polyfill for older or non-compliant javascript engines.
-* Upgrade jQuery Cookie to v1.2.0.
+* Upgrade jQuery Cookie to v1.3.1.
 * (bug 20476) Add a "viewsuppressed" user right to be able to view
   suppressed content but not suppress it ("suppressrevision" right).
 * Added a new hook, "OutputPageScriptsForBottomQueue", to add modules to the
@@ -129,6 +133,11 @@ production.
 * (bug 68085) Links of the form [[localInterwikiPrefix:languageCode:pageTitle]],
   where localInterwikiPrefix is a member of the $wgLocalInterwikis array, will
   no longer be displayed in the sidebar when $wgInterwikiMagic is true.
+* New special page, MyLanguages, to redirect users to subpages with localised
+  versions of a page. (Integrated from Extension:Translate)
+* MediaWiki now supports multiple password types, including bcrypt and PBKDF2.
+  The default type can be changed with $wgPasswordDefault and the type
+  configurations can be changed with $wgPasswordConfig.
 
 === Bug fixes in 1.24 ===
 * (bug 49116) Footer copyright notice is now always displayed in user language
@@ -155,6 +164,9 @@ production.
 * (bug 65757) MSSQL: Update script drops unnamed constraints to be prepared
   for future updates. Because it's doing so heuristically, it may fail or drop
   wrong constraints.
+* (bug 67870) wfShellExec() cuts off stdout at multiples of 8192 bytes.
+* $wgRunJobsAsync now works with private wikis (e.g. read requires login).
+* (bugs 57238, 65206) Blank pages can now be directly created.
 
 === Web API changes in 1.24 ===
 * action=parse API now supports prop=modules, which provides the list of
@@ -268,6 +280,8 @@ changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
 * Removed maintenance script importTextFile.php. Use edit.php script instead.
 * A _from_namespace field has been added to the templatelinks, pagelinks,
   and filelinks tables. Run update.php to apply this change to the schema.
+* Removed File::sha1Base36(). (deprecated since 1.19)
+* Removed File::getPropsFromPath(). (deprecated since 1.19)
 
 ==== Renamed classes ====
 * CLDRPluralRuleConverter_Expression to CLDRPluralRuleConverterExpression
@@ -314,6 +328,8 @@ changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
 * RevertFileAction - Use RevertAction directly
 * HistoryPage - Use HistoryAction directly
 * RawPage - Use RawAction directly
+* StubContLang - Use Language::factory() instead
+* XMLReader2 - Use XMLReader directly
 
 == Compatibility ==