Merge "API: Overhaul token handling"

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

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.24 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.24
index 2bf5090..51b6c5d 100644 (file)
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.24
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.24
@@ -171,6 +171,8 @@ production.
 * (bug 35045) Redirects to sections will now update the URL in browser's address
   bar using the HTML5 History API. When [[Dog]] redirects to [[Animals#Dog]],
   the user will now see "Animals#Dog" in their browser instead of "Dog#Dog".
+* API token handling has been rewritten. Any API module using tokens will need
+  to be updated.
 
 === Bug fixes in 1.24 ===
 * (bug 50572) MediaWiki:Blockip should support gender
@@ -247,6 +249,10 @@ production.
   automatically queries the list of submodule names from the ApiModuleManager.
 * The iwurl parameter to prop=iwlinks is deprecated in favor of iwprop=url, for
   parallelism with prop=langlinks.
+* All tokens should be fetched from action=query&meta=tokens; all other methods
+  of fetching tokens are deprecated. The value needed for meta=tokens's 'type'
+  parameter for each module is documented in the action=help output and is
+  returned from action=paraminfo.
 
 === Languages updated in 1.24 ===