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 cd4e668..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 ===
 
@@ -306,7 +312,7 @@ changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
   set of hooks has been removed and replaced by a single new hook
   SpecialPageBeforeFormDisplay.
 * (bug 65781) Removed block warning on included {{Special:Contributions}}
-* Removed Skin::makeGlobalVariablesScript. (deprecated since 1.19)
+* Removed Skin::makeGlobalVariablesScript(). (deprecated since 1.19)
 * Removed MWNamespace::isMain(). (deprecated since 1.19)
 * Removed Preferences::loadOldSearchNs(). (deprecated since 1.19)
 * Removed OutputPage::getStatusMessage(). (deprecated since 1.18)
@@ -344,16 +350,21 @@ changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
   setPreloadedText() from EditPage.php. (deprecated since 1.21)
 * Removed global functions wfArrayLookup(), wfArrayMerge(), wfDebugDieBacktrace()
   and wfTime(). (deprecated since 1.22)
-* Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 is now a "grade C" browser, meaning that
-  JavaScript is no longer executed in this browser. The IEFixes script, which
-  existed purely to provide support for MSIE versions below 7 and which was
-  conditionally loaded for those browsers, was also removed.
+* Browser support for Internet Explorer 6 lowered from Grade A to Grade C,
+  meaning that JavaScript is no longer executed in this browser.
+* Browser support for Opera 11 lowered from Grade A to Grade C.
+* Removed IEFixes module which existed purely to provide support for MSIE versions
+  below 7 (conditionally loaded only for those browsers).
 * Action::checkCanExecute() no longer has a return value.
 * Removed cleanupForIRC(), loadFromCurRow(), newFromCurRow(), notifyRC2UDP()
   and sendToUDP() from RecentChange.php. (deprecated since 1.22)
 * Removed EnhancedChangesList::arrow(), sideArrow(), downArrow(), spacerArrow().
 * Removed Xml::namespaceSelector(). (deprecated since 1.19)
-* Removed WikiPage::estimateRevisionCount. (deprecated since 1.19)
+* Removed WikiPage::estimateRevisionCount(). (deprecated since 1.19)
+* MYSQL: Enum item added to "major MIME type" columns.
+  Running update.php on MySQL < v5.1 may result in heavy processing.
+* RSS and Atom feeds generated by MediaWiki no longer include a fallback
+  stylesheet. It was ignored by most browsers these days anyway.
 
 ==== Renamed classes ====
 * CLDRPluralRuleConverter_Expression to CLDRPluralRuleConverterExpression