Merge "SpecialRecentChanges: Remove '@todo Uses radio buttons (HASHAR)'"

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

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.22 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.22
index d6a75ba..6826478 100644 (file)
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.22
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.22
@@ -64,8 +64,11 @@ 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 ===
+* You can now install extensions using Composer.
+  See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Composer
 * (bug 44525) mediawiki.jqueryMsg can now parse (whitelisted) HTML elements and attributes.
 * (bug 33454) Language::sprintfDate now has a timezone parameter, and supports
   the "eIOPTZ" formatting characters.
@@ -226,8 +229,6 @@ production.
 * Add deferrable update support for callback/closure.
 * Add TitleMove hook before page renames.
 * Revision deletion backend code is moved out of SpecialRevisiondelete
-* Add a variable (wgRedactedFunctionArguments) to redact the values sent as certain function
-  parameters from exception stack traces.
 * Added {{REVISIONSIZE}} variable to get the current size of a revision.
 * Add support for the LESS stylesheet language to ResourceLoader. LESS is a
   stylesheet language that compiles into CSS. ResourceLoader file modules may
@@ -254,10 +255,19 @@ production.
 * 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 
+  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 43571) DatabaseMySQLBase learned to list views, optionally filtered by a
+  prefix. Also fixed PHPUnit test suite when using a MySQL backend containing
+  views.
 
 === Bug fixes in 1.22 ===
+* (bug 47271) $wgContentHandlerUseDB should be set to false during the upgrade
 * Disable Special:PasswordReset when $wgEnableEmail is false. Previously one
   could still navigate to the page by entering the URL directly.
 * (bug 47138) Fixed a fatal error when a blocked user tries to automatically
@@ -343,6 +353,7 @@ production.
 * (bug 45288) Support mysqli PHP extension
 * (bug 55818) BREAKING CHANGE: Removed undocumented 'Debug' hook in wfDebug.
   This resolves an infinite loop when using $wgDebugFunctionEntry = true.
+* (bug 56707) Correct tooltip of "Next n results" on query special pages.
 
 === API changes in 1.22 ===
 * (bug 25553) The JSON output formatter now leaves forward slashes unescaped
@@ -512,6 +523,14 @@ 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.
+* BREAKING CHANGE: The module 'mediawiki.legacy.IEFixes' has been removed as it was
+  unused. The file skins/common/IEFixes.js remains but is only used by wikibits.
+  The file never contained any re-usable components. To use it in a skin, load
+  'mediawiki.legacy.wikibits' (which IEFixes depends on) and that will import
+  IEFixes automatically if user agent conditions are met.
+* Code specific to the Math extension was marked as deprecated.
 
 == Compatibility ==