be installed and running for any such queues to work.
* $wgAutopromoteOnce no longer supports the 'view' event. For keeping some
compatibility, any 'view' event triggers will still trigger on 'edit'.
+* $wgExtensionDirectory was added for when your extensions directory is somewhere
+ other than $IP/extensions (as $wgStyleDirectory does with the skins directory).
=== New features in 1.25 ===
* (T64861) Updated plural rules to CLDR 26. Includes incompatible changes
regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
+* Languages added:
+** awa (अवधी / Awadhi), thanks to translator 1AnuraagPandey;
+** bgn (بلوچی رخشانی / Western Balochi), thanks to translators
+ Baloch Afghanistan, Ibrahim khashrowdi and Rachitrali;
+** ses (Koyraboro Senni), thanks to translator Songhay.
* (T66440) Kazakh (kk) wikis should no longer forcefully reset the user's
interface language to kk where unexpected.
* The Chinese conversion table was substantially updated to fix a lot of
bugs and ensure better reading experience for different variants.
=== Other changes in 1.25 ===
+* (T45591) Links to MediaWiki.org translatable help were added to indicators,
+ mostly in special pages. Local custom target titles can be placed in the
+ relevant '(namespace-X|action name|special page name)-helppage' system
+ message. Extensions can use the addHelpLink() function to do the same.
* The skin autodiscovery mechanism, deprecated in MediaWiki 1.23, has been
removed. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skin_autodiscovery for
migration guide for creators and users of custom skins that relied on it.
* $wgResourceModuleSkinStyles no longer supports per-module local or remote paths. They
can only be set for the entire skin.
* Removed global function swap(). (deprecated since 1.24)
-* Deprecated the ".php5" file extension entry points. Refer to the ".php" files
- instead. If you want ".php5" URLs to continue to work, set up redirects. In
- Apache, this can be done by enabling mod_rewrite and adding the following
- rules to your configuration:
+* Deprecated the ".php5" file extension entry points and the $wgScriptExtension
+ configuration variable. Refer to the ".php" files instead. If you want
+ ".php5" URLs to continue to work, set up redirects. In Apache, this can be
+ done by enabling mod_rewrite and adding the following rules to your
+ configuration:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /