Merge "Oracle: DRCP and persistent connections support"

[lhc/web/wiklou.git] / RELEASE-NOTES-1.22

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.22 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.22
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@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ production.
 * $wgHandheldStyle was removed.
 * $wgJsMimeType is no longer used by core. Most usage has been removed since
   HTML output is now exclusively HTML5.
+* $wgDBOracleDRCP added. True enables persistent connection with DRCP on Oracle.
 
 === New features in 1.22 ===
 * (bug 44525) mediawiki.jqueryMsg can now parse (whitelisted) HTML elements and attributes.
@@ -84,6 +85,14 @@ production.
   MediaWiki will try outputting markup acording to XHTML5 rules.
 * New hook 'TitleSquidURLs' for manipulating the list of URLs to be purged from
   HTTP caches when a page is changed.
+* Changed the patrolling system to always show the link for patrolling in case the
+  current revision is patrollable. This also removed the usage of the rcid URI parameters.
+* Oracle DB backend now supports Database Resident Connection Pooling (DRCP).
+  Can be enabled by setting $wgDBOracleDRCP=true.
+  Requires Oracle DB 11gR1 or above, enabled DRCP inside the DB itself and a
+  propper connect string.
+  More about DRCP can be found at:
+  http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/11g/database-resident-connection-pool-11gr1.php
 
 === Bug fixes in 1.22 ===
 * Disable Special:PasswordReset when $wgEnableEmail is false. Previously one
@@ -106,6 +115,14 @@ production.
   strings will now start with digits 0 and 8-f as often as they should.
 * (bug 45371) Removed Parser_LinkHooks and CoreLinkFunctions classes.
 * (bug 41545) Allow <kbd>, <samp>, and <var> to be nested like allowed in html.
+* PLURAL magic word no longer causes a PHP notice when no matching form exists.
+* (bug 36641) Patrol page links no longer show on non-existent revisions.
+* (bug 35810) Pages not linked from Special:RecentChanges or Special:NewPages
+  are patrollable now.
+* (bug 30213) JavaScript for search suggestions is now disabled when the API
+  is disabled, and AJAX patrolling and watching are now disabled when use of
+  the write API is not allowed.
+* (bug 48294) API: Fix chunk upload async mode.
 
 === API changes in 1.22 ===
 * (bug 46626) xmldoublequote parameter was removed. Because of a bug, the
@@ -129,7 +146,7 @@ production.
   stored in the database.
 * (bug 47219) Allow specifying change type of Wikipedia feed items
 * prop=imageinfo now allows setting iiurlheight without setting iiurlwidth
-* prop=info now adds the content model of the title.
+* prop=info now adds the content model and page language of the title.
 * New upload log entries will now contain information on the relavent
   image (sha1 and timestamp).
 
@@ -170,6 +187,11 @@ changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
   to redirect through Special:Redirect.
 * Monobook: Removed the old conditional stylesheets for Opera 6, 7 and 9.
 * Support for XHTML 1.0 has been removed. MediaWiki now only outputs (X)HTML5.
+* wikibits: User-agent related globals have been deprecated. The following
+  properties now default to false and emit mw.log.warn: is_gecko, is_chrome_mac,
+  is_chrome, webkit_version, is_safari_win, is_safari, webkit_match, is_ff2,
+  ff2_bugs, is_ff2_win, is_ff2_x11, opera95_bugs, opera7_bugs, opera6_bugs,
+  is_opera_95, is_opera_preseven, is_opera, and ie6_bugs.
 
 == Compatibility ==