* (bug 66440) The MediaWiki web installer will now allow you to choose the skins
to enable (from the ones included in download tarball) and decide which one
should be the default.
-* (bug 68085) Links of the form [[localInterwikiPrefix:languageCode:pageTitle]],
+* (bug 68085, 68802) Links like [[localInterwikiPrefix:languageCode:pageTitle]],
where localInterwikiPrefix is a member of the $wgLocalInterwikis array, will
- no longer be displayed in the sidebar when $wgInterwikiMagic is true.
+ no longer be displayed in the sidebar when $wgInterwikiMagic is true. In a
+ similar way, links like [[localInterwikiPrefix:File:Image.png]] and
+ [[localInterwikiPrefix:Category:Hello]] will now render as regular links, and
+ will not include the file or add the page to the category.
* New special page, MyLanguages, to redirect users to subpages with localised
versions of a page. (Integrated from Extension:Translate)
* MediaWiki now supports multiple password types, including bcrypt and PBKDF2.
* (bug 15484) Users will now be redirected to the login page when they need to
log in, rather than being shown a page asking them to log in and having to click
another link to actually get to the login page.
+* A JSONContent and JSONContentHandler were added for extensions to extend.
=== Bug fixes in 1.24 ===
+* (bug 50572) MediaWiki:Blockip should support gender
* (bug 49116) Footer copyright notice is now always displayed in user language
rather than content language (same as copyright notice for editing interface).
* (bug 62258) A bug was fixed in File::getUnscaledThumb when a height