Merge "Add "extended" file metadata to API"

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

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.22 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.22
index 4cfd661..958da48 100644 (file)
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.22
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.22
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ production.
 * (bug 54597) $wgBlockOpenProxies, $wgProxyPorts, $wgProxyScriptPath, and
   $wgProxyMemcExpiry have been removed, along with the open proxy scanner
   script they were added for.
+* Default value of $wgMaxShellMemory has been tripled (it's now 300 MB).
 
 === New features in 1.22 ===
 * (bug 44525) mediawiki.jqueryMsg can now parse (whitelisted) HTML elements and attributes.
@@ -253,6 +254,14 @@ production.
   output in a HTML comment.
 * The 'UnwatchArticle' and 'WatchArticle' hooks now support a Status object
   instead of just a boolean return value to abort the hook.
+* Added a hook, SpecialWatchlistGetNonRevisionTypes, to allow extensions
+  with custom recentchanges entries to hook into the Watchlist without 
+  clobbering each other.
+* A hidden, empty input field was added to the edit form, and any edit that fills
+  it in will be rejected. This prevents against the simplest form of spambots.
+  Previously in the "SimpleAntiSpam" extension by Ryan Schmidt.
+* populateRevisionLength.php maintenance script updated to also populate
+  archive.ar_len field.
 
 === Bug fixes in 1.22 ===
 * Disable Special:PasswordReset when $wgEnableEmail is false. Previously one
@@ -412,6 +421,15 @@ changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
 * (bug 46751) Made Buryat (Russia) (буряад) (bxr) fallback to Russian.
 
 === Other changes in 1.22 ===
+* The rc_type field in the recentchanges table has been superseded by a new
+  rc_source field.  The rc_source field is a string representation of the
+  change type where rc_type was a numeric constant.  This field is not yet
+  queried but will be in a future point release of 1.22.  
+** Utilize update.php to create and populate this new field.  On larger wiki's
+   which do not wish to update recentchanges table in one large update please
+   review the sql and comments in maintenance/archives/patch-rc_source.sql.
+** The rc_type field of recentchanges will be deprecated in a future point
+   release.
 * BREAKING CHANGE: Implementation of MediaWiki's JS and JSON value encoding
   has changed:
 ** MediaWiki no longer supports PHP installations in which the native JSON
@@ -509,6 +527,8 @@ changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
   to addModules() and made protected.
 * Methods WatchAction::doWatch and WatchAction::doUnwatch now return a Status
   object instead of a boolean.
+* Information boxes (CSS classes errorbox, warningbox, successbox) have been
+  made more subtle.
 
 == Compatibility ==