* $wgCompiledFiles has been removed.
* $wgSortSpecialPages was removed, the listing on Special:SpecialPages is
now always sorted.
+* $wgHTCPMulticastAddress, $wgHTCPMulticastRouting and $wgHTCPPort were removed.
+* $wgRC2UDPAddress, $wgRC2UDPInterwikiPrefix, $wgRC2UDPOmitBots, $wgRC2UDPPort
+ and $wgRC2UDPPrefix have been removed.
+* The default password type for MediaWiki has been changed from MD5 to PBKDF2.
+ Password hashes will automatically be updated as users log in. If necessary, the
+ old MD5 hashing can be restored by changing $wgPasswordDefault to 'B'. In addition,
+ there is a maintenance script wrapOldPassword.php that can wrap all passwords in
+ PBKDF2 (or the hashing algorithm of your choice) if you don't want to wait for your
+ users to log in.
+* $wgImportSources can now either be a regular array, or an associative map
+ specifying subprojects on the interwiki map of the target wiki, or a mix of
+ the two. Existing configurations will still work.
+* Users must be able to edit through a page's protection to be able to delete it.
+* The default thumb size ($wgDefaultUserOptions['thumbsize']) is now 300px, up from
+ 180px. If you have altered the number of entries in $wgThumbLimits for your wiki, you
+ may need to adjust your default user settings to compensate for the index change.
=== New features in 1.24 ===
* Added a new hook, "WhatLinksHereProps", to allow extensions to annotate
Special:PageLanguage. All pages are set to wiki language by default.
The feature needs to be enabled with $wgPageLanguageUseDB=true and
permission needs to be set for 'pagelang'.
-* Upgrade Moment.js to v2.7.0.
+* Upgrade Moment.js to v2.8.1.
* (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.
log in, rather than being shown a page asking them to log in and having to click
another link to actually get to the login page.
* A JSONContent and JSONContentHandler were added for extensions to extend.
+* (bug 35045) Redirects to sections will now update the URL in browser's address
+ bar using the HTML5 History API. When [[Dog]] redirects to [[Animals#Dog]],
+ the user will now see "Animals#Dog" in their browser instead of "Dog#Dog".
=== Bug fixes in 1.24 ===
* (bug 50572) MediaWiki:Blockip should support gender
* (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.
+* (bug 69789) Title::getContentModel() now loads from the database when
+ necessary instead of incorrectly returning the default content model.
=== Web API changes in 1.24 ===
* action=parse API now supports prop=modules, which provides the list of
to use for the module. This is intended for extensions that want control over
the instantiation of their API modules, to allow for proper dependency
injection.
+* Removed 'props' and 'errors' from action=paraminfo, as they have extremely
+ limited use and are generally inaccurate, unmaintained, and impossible to
+ properly maintain. Also removed the corresponding methods from ApiBase and
+ the 'APIGetPossibleErrors' and 'APIGetResultProperties' hooks.
+* Formats dbg, dump, txt, wddx, and yaml are now deprecated.
+* action=paraminfo now indicates when a parameter is specifying a submodule.
+ Internally, a new param type 'submodule' is available to indicate this which
+ automatically queries the list of submodule names from the ApiModuleManager.
+* The iwurl parameter to prop=iwlinks is deprecated in favor of iwprop=url, for
+ parallelism with prop=langlinks.
=== Languages updated in 1.24 ===
* Added pp_sortkey column to page_props table, so pages can be efficiently
queried and sorted by property value (bug 58032).
See $wgPagePropsHaveSortkey if you want to postpone the schema change.
-* BREAKING CHANGE: The Modern and Cologne Blue skins were moved out of MediaWiki
- core to their own respective repositories. See also
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Modern and
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:CologneBlue.
+* BREAKING CHANGE: All four built-in MediaWiki skins (Vector, MonoBook, Modern
+ and Cologne Blue) were moved out of MediaWiki core to their own respective
+ repositories. They will be installed with the release tarball, but you must
+ install them separately if installing MediaWiki from source code. A warning
+ message displayed until you do it should guide you through the process. See
+ also <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skin_configuration>.
* BREAKING CHANGE: Skins built for MediaWiki 1.15 and earlier that do not use
the "headelement" template key are no longer supported. Setting
$useHeadElement = false; is no longer supported and will not cause old keys
JavaScript is no longer executed in this browser. The IEFixes script, which
existed purely to provide support for MSIE versions below 7 and which was
conditionally loaded for those browsers, was also removed.
+* Action::checkCanExecute() no longer has a return value.
+* Removed cleanupForIRC(), loadFromCurRow(), newFromCurRow(), notifyRC2UDP()
+ and sendToUDP() from RecentChange.php. (deprecated since 1.22)
+* Removed EnhancedChangesList::arrow(), sideArrow(), downArrow(), spacerArrow().
+* Removed Xml::namespaceSelector(). (deprecated since 1.19)
+* Removed WikiPage::estimateRevisionCount. (deprecated since 1.19)
==== Renamed classes ====
* CLDRPluralRuleConverter_Expression to CLDRPluralRuleConverterExpression