=== 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
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
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
* 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