Merge "Allow Linker::formatComment to link to another wiki per default."

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@@@ -27,9 -27,6 +27,9 @@@ production
    MediaWiki 1.26, in where ResourceLoader became fully asynchronous.
  * $wgMasterWaitTimeout was removed (deprecated in 1.24).
  * Fields in ParserOptions are now private. Use the accessors instead.
 +* Custom LESS functions (defined via $wgResourceLoaderLESSFunctions)
 +  have been removed, after being deprecated in 1.24.
 +* $wgAlwaysUseTidy has been removed.
  
  === New features in 1.26 ===
  * (T51506) Now action=info gives estimates of actual watchers for a page.
@@@ -69,10 -66,6 +69,10 @@@
    for potentially slow POST requests that need to be as atomic as possible.
  * ResourceLoader now loads all scripts asynchronously. The top-queue and
    startup modules are no longer synchronously loaded.
 +* 'mediawiki.ui.button' styles are no longer unconditionally loaded on every
 +  page. During the deprecation period, the styles will only be loaded on pages
 +  which contain 'mw-ui-button' in their HTML. Starting in 1.28, the styles will
 +  only be loaded if explicitly required.
  
  ==== External libraries ====
  * Update es5-shim from v4.0.0 to v4.1.5.
@@@ -86,8 -79,6 +86,8 @@@
  * (T53283) load.php sometimes sends 304 response without full headers
  * (T65198) Talk page tabs now have a "rel=discussion" attribute
  * (T98841) {{msgnw:}} now preserves comments even when subst: is not used.
 +* (T104142) $wgEmergencyContact and $wgPasswordSender now use their default
 +  value if set to an empty string.
  
  === Action API changes in 1.26 ===
  * New-style continuation is now the default for action=continue. Clients may
@@@ -106,22 -97,10 +106,22 @@@
    sometimes being numerically-indexed objects with formatversion=2.
  * When errors about users being blocked are returned, they now include
    information about the relevant block.
 +* (T99926) list=random has higher limits, in line with other API modules.
 +* list=random's rnredirect parameter is deprecated in favor of a new
 +  rnfilterredir parameter that also allows for listing both redirects and
 +  non-redirects.
 +* list=random now supports continuation.
 +* API responses to GET requests may now include ETag and Last-Modified headers,
 +  and will honor corresponding If-None-Match and If-Modified-Since on such
 +  requests.
  
  === Action API internal changes in 1.26 ===
  * New metadata item ApiResult::META_KVP_MERGE to allow for merging the KVP key
    into the value when the value is an assoc.
 +* API action modules may now provide values for the RFC 7232 ETag and
 +  Last-Modified headers. The API will check these against If-None-Match and
 +  If-Modified-Since request headers on GET requests and avoid executing the
 +  module when appropriate.
  
  === Languages updated in 1.26 ===
  
@@@ -139,6 -118,7 +139,7 @@@ changes to languages because of Phabric
  * ChangeTags::tagDescription() will return false if the interface message
    for the tag is disabled.
  * Added PageHistoryPager::doBatchLookups hook.
+ * Added $wikiId parameter to FormatAutocomments hook.
  * Added ParserCacheSaveComplete to ParserCache
  * supportsDirectEditing and supportsDirectApiEditing methods added to
    ContentHandler, to provide a way for ApiEditPage and EditPage to check
@@@ -183,9 -163,6 +184,9 @@@
    a lengthy deprecation period.
  * The ScopedPHPTimeout class was removed.
  * Removed maintenance script fixSlaveDesync.php.
 +* Watchlist tokens, SpecialResetTokens, and User::getTokenFromOption()
 +  are deprecated. Applications using those can work via the OAuth
 +  extension instead. New tokens types should not be added.
  
  == Compatibility ==