Merge "Remove LogEventsList::showHeader() (deprecated since 1.19)"

[lhc/web/wiklou.git] / RELEASE-NOTES-1.24

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.24 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.24
index 0779f6b..ee45799 100644 (file)
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.24
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.24
@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ production.
 * $wgDBClusterTimeout has been removed.
 * $wgProxyKey has been removed. It is no longer used by MediaWiki core.
   Ensure $wgSecretKey is set in LocalSettings.php.
+* $wgExtraInterlanguageLinkPrefixes is a new configuration variable that
+  contains an array of interwiki prefixes that should be treated as language
+  prefixes (i.e. turned into interlanguage links when $wgInterwikiMagic is set
+  to true).
 
 === New features in 1.24 ===
 * Added a new hook, "WhatLinksHereProps", to allow extensions to annotate
@@ -75,6 +79,15 @@ production.
   Special:Log, but more are to come.
 * Special:MostLinkedTemplates is no longer limited to transclusions from the
   Template namespace.
+* Skins can now use 'remoteSkinPath' when defining ResourceLoader modules.
+  This works the same as 'remoteExtPath' but is relative to the skins/ folder
+  instead of the extensions/ folder.
+* Extensions and skins may now use 'namemsg' in $wgExtensionCredits in addition
+  to 'name', to allow for the name to be localizable. 'name' should still be
+  specified for backwards-compatibility and to define the path Special:Version
+  uses to find extension license information.
+* Browser tests are now included to verify basic wiki functionality in developer
+  environments. For details on running tests, see tests/browser/README.mediawiki.
 
 === Bug fixes in 1.24 ===
 * (bug 49116) Footer copyright notice is now always displayed in user language
@@ -96,6 +109,8 @@ production.
 * (bug 52587) Maintenance script deleteBatch.php no longer follows redirects
   in the file namespace and delete the file on the target page. It will still
   however delete the redirect page.
+* (bug 22683) {{msgnw:}} and other uses of PPFrame::RECOVER_ORIG will correctly
+  recover the original code of extension tags.
 
 === Web API changes in 1.24 ===
 * action=parse API now supports prop=modules, which provides the list of
@@ -154,6 +169,16 @@ changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
 * The skin autodiscovery mechanism has been deprecated and will be removed in
   MediaWiki 1.25. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skin_autodiscovery
   for migration guide for creators and users of custom skins that relied on it.
+* ResourceLoaderFileModule#getAllStyleFiles now returns all style files and all
+  skin style files used by the module.
+* Removed getLang() from IContextSource and subclasses. (deprecated since 1.19)
+* Removed setLang() from subclasses of IContextSource. (deprecated since 1.19)
+* Removed WebRequest::escapeAppendQuery(). (deprecated since 1.20)
+* Removed info(), purge(), revert() and rollback() from the Article class; they
+  have since become subclasses of the Action class. (deprecated since 1.19)
+* SearchEngineReplacePrefixesComplete hook was removed.
+* Removed HTMLForm::addJS(). (deprecated since 1.18)
+* Removed LogEventsList::showHeader(). (deprecated since 1.19)
 
 ==== Renamed classes ====
 * CLDRPluralRuleConverter_Expression to CLDRPluralRuleConverterExpression
@@ -162,6 +187,7 @@ changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
 * CLDRPluralRuleEvaluator_Range to CLDRPluralRuleEvaluatorRange
 * CSSJanus_Tokenizer to CSSJanusTokenizer
 * MediaWiki_I18N to MediaWikiI18N
+* Parser_DiffTest to ParserDiffTest
 * RevDel_ArchiveItem to RevDelArchiveItem
 * RevDel_ArchiveList to RevDelArchiveList
 * RevDel_ArchivedFileItem to RevDelArchivedFileItem