Merge "Fix docs on File::getImageSize() they were very misleading"

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

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.24 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.24
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@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ production.
 === Configuration changes in 1.24 ===
 * 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,
+  for using the old schema of the page_props table, in case the respective
+  schema update was not applied.
 
 === New features in 1.24 ===
 * Added a new hook, "WhatLinksHereProps", to allow extensions to annotate
@@ -30,6 +33,14 @@ production.
   jQuery.cookie so that getting/setting a cookie is syntactically and functionally
   similar to using the WebRequest#getCookie/WebResponse#setcookie methods.
 * (bug 44740) jQuery upgraded from 1.8.3 to 1.11.1.
+* Changes to content typography (fonts, etc.). See
+  https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_refresh for further information.
+* WikitextContent will now render redirects with the expected "redirect"
+  header, rather than as an ordered list. Code calling Article::viewRedirect
+  can probably be changed to no longer special-case redirects.
+* (bug 63903) Thumbnails without an explicit size specification are
+  now resized to a square bounding box. This gives better results for
+  non-landscape thumbnails.
 
 === Bug fixes in 1.24 ===
 * (bug 49116) Footer copyright notice is now always displayed in user language
@@ -41,9 +52,16 @@ production.
   claimed it would.
 * (bug 39035) Improved Vector skin performance by removing collapsibleNav,
   which used to collapse some sidebar elements by default.
+  This removes -list id suffixes like p-lang-list: instead of using things like
+  #p-lang-list, you can do #p-lang .body ul.
 * (bug 890) Links in Special:RecentChanges and Special:Watchlist no longer
   follow redirects to their target pages.
 * Parser now dies early if called recursively, instead of producing subtle bugs.
+* (bug 14323) Redirect pages, when viewed with redirect=no, no longer hide the
+  remaining page content.
+* (bug 52587) Maintenance script deleteBatch.php no longer follows redirects
+  in the file namespace and delete the file on the target page. It will still
+  however delete the redirect page.
 
 === Web API changes in 1.24 ===
 * action=parse API now supports prop=modules, which provides the list of
@@ -65,9 +83,14 @@ changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
 * The deprecated function mw.util.toggleToc was removed.
 * The Special:Search hooks SpecialSearchGo and SpecialSearchResultsAppend
   were removed as they were unused.
+* (bug 65477) User::pingLimiter() now has an additional profile point varying
+  by action being used.
 * mediawiki.util.$content no longer supports old versions of the Vector,
   Monobook, Modern and CologneBlue skins that don't yet implement the "mw-body"
   and/or "mw-body-primary" class name in their html.
+* 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.
 
 ==== Renamed classes ====
 * CLDRPluralRuleConverter_Expression to CLDRPluralRuleConverterExpression