Merge "Fix link target and retina thumbnails for manual thumbnails. (Bug 45405.)"

[lhc/web/wiklou.git] / RELEASE-NOTES-1.21

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.21 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.21
index 56d812c..8835576 100644 (file)
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.21
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.21
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ production.
 * $wgBug34832TransitionalRollback has been removed.
 * (bug 29472) $wgUseDynamicDates has been removed and its functionality
   disabled.
+* $wgVectorUseIconWatch is now enabled by default.
 
 === New features in 1.21 ===
 * (bug 38110) Schema changes (adding or dropping tables, indices and
@@ -281,6 +282,11 @@ production.
   to action=feedwatchlist
 * WDDX formatted output will actually be formatted (and normal output will no
   longer be), and will no longer choke on booleans.
+* The JSON output formatter now leaves forward slashes unescaped to improve human
+  readability of URLs and similar strings. Also, a "utf8" option is now provided
+  to use UTF-8 encoding instead of hex escape codes for most non-ASCII characters.
+* action=opensearch no longer silently ignores the format parameter.
+* action=opensearch now supports format=jsonfm.
 
 === API internal changes in 1.21 ===
 * For debugging only, a new global $wgDebugAPI removes many API restrictions when true.
@@ -335,6 +341,19 @@ changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
   - ShowStats -> ShowSiteStats.
 * BREAKING CHANGE: (bug 38244) Removed the mediawiki.api.titleblacklist module
   and moved it to the TitleBlacklist extension.
+* The Special:ActiveUsers special page was removed
+* BREAKING CHANGE: Implementation of MediaWiki's JS and JSON value encoding
+  has changed:
+** MediaWiki no longer supports PHP installations in which the native JSON
+   extension is missing or disabled.
+** XmlJsCode objects can no longer be nested inside objects or arrays.
+   (For Xml::encodeJsCall(), this individually applies to each argument.)
+** The sets of characters escaped by default, along with the precise escape
+   sequences used, have changed (except for the Xml::escapeJsString()
+   function, which is now deprecated).
+* BREAKING CHANGE: The Services_JSON class has been removed; if necessary,
+  be sure to upgrade affected extensions at the same time (e.g. Collection).
+* Calling Linker methods using a skin will now output deprecation warnings.
 
 == Compatibility ==