Merge "Update the Chinese conversion table for Chinese WikiProjects"

[lhc/web/wiklou.git] / RELEASE-NOTES-1.25

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.25 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.25
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+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.25
@@ -103,6 +103,16 @@ production.
   dynamically-compiled Mustache templates (currently uses lightncandy library).
 * Clickable anchors for each section heading in the content are now generated
   and appear in the gutter on hovering over the heading.
+* Added 'CategoryViewer::doCategoryQuery' and 'CategoryViewer::generateLink' hooks
+  to allow extensions to override how links to pages are rendered within NS_CATEGORY
+* (T19665) Special:WantedPages only lists page which having at least one red link
+  pointing to it.
+* New hooks 'ApiMain::moduleManager' and 'ApiQuery::moduleManager', can be
+  used for conditional registration of API modules.
+* New hook 'EnhancedChangesList::getLogText' to alter, remove or add to the
+  links of a group of changes in EnhancedChangesList.
+* A full interface for StatsD metric reporting has been added to the context
+  interface, reachable via IContextSource::getStats().
 
 ==== External libraries ====
 * MediaWiki now requires certain external libraries to be installed. In the past
@@ -129,6 +139,8 @@ production.
    This library was formerly a part of MediaWiki core, and has been moved into a separate library.
    It provides CDB functions which are used in the Interwiki and Localization caches.
    More information about the library can be found at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CDB.
+** liuggio/statsd-php-client
+   This library provides a StatsD client API for logging application metrics to a remote server.
 
 === Bug fixes in 1.25 ===
 * (T73003) No additional code will be generated to try to load CSS-embedded
@@ -158,6 +170,8 @@ production.
   (instead of returning incorrect results) even when the page ID is known.
 * (T74070) Duplicate search for archived files on file upload now omits the extension.
   This requires the fa_sha1 field being populated.
+* Removed rel="archives" from the "View history" link, as it did not pass
+  HTML validation.
 
 === Action API changes in 1.25 ===
 * (T67403) XML tag highlighting is now only performed for formats
@@ -220,6 +234,8 @@ production.
 * (T88010) Added action=checktoken, to test a CSRF token's validity.
 * (T88010) Added intestactions to prop=info, to allow querying of
   Title::userCan() via the API.
+* Default type param for query list=watchlist and list=recentchanges has
+  been changed from all types (e.g. including 'external') to 'edit|new|log'.
 
 === Action API internal changes in 1.25 ===
 * ApiHelp has been rewritten to support i18n and paginated HTML output.
@@ -251,6 +267,11 @@ production.
   provided to access just the live or just the deleted revids.
 * Added ApiPageSet::setGeneratorData() and ApiPageSet::populateGeneratorData()
   to allow generators to include data in the action=query result.
+* New hooks 'ApiMain::moduleManager' and 'ApiQuery::moduleManager', can be
+  used for conditional registration of API modules.
+* Added ApiBase::lacksSameOriginSecurity() to allow modules to easily check if
+  the current request was sent with the 'callback' parameter (or any future
+  method that breaks the same-origin policy).
 * The following methods have been deprecated and may be removed in a future
   release:
   * ApiBase::getDescription
@@ -281,6 +302,8 @@ changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
 
 * (T66440) Kazakh (kk) wikis should no longer forcefully reset the user's
   interface language to kk where unexpected.
+* The Chinese conversion table was substantially updated to fix a lot of
+  bugs and ensure better reading experience for different variants.
 
 === Other changes in 1.25 ===
 * The skin autodiscovery mechanism, deprecated in MediaWiki 1.23, has been
@@ -360,6 +383,17 @@ changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
   The alphabet of the prior string returned was A-Za-z0-9 and now it is 0-9A-F
 * (T87504) Avoid serving SVG background-images in CSS for Opera 12, which
   renders them incorrectly when combined with border-radius or background-size.
+* Removed maintenance script dumpSisterSites.php.
+* DatabaseBase class constructors must be called using the array argument style.
+  Ideally, DatabaseBase:factory() should be used instead in most cases.
+* Deprecated ParserOutput::addSecondaryDataUpdate and ParserOutput::getSecondaryDataUpdates.
+  This is a hard deprecation, with getSecondaryDataUpdates returning an empty array and
+  addSecondaryDataUpdate throwing an exception. These functions will be removed in 1.26,
+  since they interfere with caching of ParserOutput objects.
+* Introduced new hook 'SecondaryDataUpdates' that allows extensions to inject custom updates.
+* EditPage::attemptSave has been modified not to call handleStatus itself and
+  instead just returns the Status object. Extension calling it should be aware of
+  this.
 
 == Compatibility ==