Merge "Make travis test php 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5"

[lhc/web/wiklou.git] / RELEASE-NOTES-1.23

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.23 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.23
index 9664f1f..5310ee4 100644 (file)
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.23
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.23
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ MediaWiki 1.23 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in
 production.
 
 === Configuration changes in 1.23 ===
+* When $wgJobRunRate is higher that zero, jobs are now executed via an
+  asynchronous HTTP request to a MediaWiki entry point. This may require
+  increasing the number of server worker threads.
 * $wgDebugLogGroups values may be set to an associative array with a
   'destination' key specifying the log destination. The array may also contain
   a 'sample' key with a positive integer value N indicating that the log group
@@ -102,6 +105,13 @@ production.
    $wgDBWindowsAuthentication, which makes the web server authenticate against
    the database server using Integrated Windows Authentication instead of
    $wgDBuser/$wgDBpassword.
+* HTMLForm 'select', 'selectandother', 'selectorother', 'multiselect', and
+  'radio' fields can now use message keys as labels via the 'options-messages'
+  parameter, which overrides the 'options' parameter.
+* Admins can expire users users passwords manually, or on a schedule using the
+  $wgPasswordExpirationDays configuration setting.
+* Add new hook SendWatchlistEmailNotification, this will be used to determine
+  whether to send a watchlist email notification.
 
 === Bug fixes in 1.23 ===
 * (bug 41759) The "updated since last visit" markers (on history pages, recent
@@ -137,6 +147,8 @@ production.
 * (bug 60543) Special:PrefixIndex forgot stripprefix=1 for "Next page" link
 * (bug 29762) Undoing an already-undone edit will now display an appropriate
   message instead of leading the user to make a null edit.
+* (bug 52659) mediawiki.notification: Notification area remained visible when
+  empty and thus was stealing pointer events from links on the page.
 
 === Web API changes in 1.23 ===
 * (bug 54884) action=parse&prop=categories now indicates hidden and missing
@@ -182,6 +194,8 @@ production.
 * (bug 58627) Provide language names on action=parse&prop=langlinks.
 * Deprecated llurl= in favour of llprop=url for action=query&prop=langlinks.
 * Added llprop=langname and llprop=autonym for action=query&prop=langlinks.
+* prop=redirects is added, to return redirects to the pages in the query.
+* list=allredirects is added, to list all redirects pointing to a namespace.
 
 === Languages updated in 1.23 ===
 
@@ -241,6 +255,10 @@ changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
 * mw.loader.go and mw.loader.version have been removed.
 * (bug 52815) Preference "Enable simplified search bar (Vector skin only)"
   was removed.
+* A user_password_expires column has been added to the user table. The User
+  object expects this column to exist. Use update.php to create this new field.
+* The jquery.delayedBind ResourceLoader module was deprecated in favor of the
+  jquery.throttle-debounce module. It will be removed in MediaWiki 1.24.
 
 ==== Removed classes ====
 * FakeMemCachedClient (deprecated in 1.18)