Merge "Allow factory functions for creating API modules."

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

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.24 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.24
index 9357feb..92b34c6 100644 (file)
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.24
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.24
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ production.
 * $wgEnableSorbs and $wgSorbsUrl have been removed.
 * The UserCryptPassword and UserComparePassword hooks are no longer called. Any extensions
   using them must be updated to use the Password Hashing API.
+* $wgCompiledFiles has been removed.
+* $wgSortSpecialPages was removed, the listing on Special:SpecialPages is
+  now always sorted.
 
 === New features in 1.24 ===
 * Added a new hook, "WhatLinksHereProps", to allow extensions to annotate
@@ -138,6 +141,8 @@ production.
   configurations can be changed with $wgPasswordConfig.
 * Skins can now define custom styles for default ResourceLoader modules using
   the $wgResourceModuleSkinStyles global. See the Vector skin for examples.
+* (bug 4488) There is now a preference to watch pages where the user has
+  rollbacked an edit by default.
 
 === Bug fixes in 1.24 ===
 * (bug 49116) Footer copyright notice is now always displayed in user language
@@ -193,6 +198,14 @@ production.
 * (bug 60734) Actions that use ApiPageSet (e.g. purge, watch,
   setnotificationtimestamp) will now include continuation information when
   using a generator.
+* $wgAPIModules (and the related $wgAPIFormatModules, $wgAPIMetaModules,
+  $wgAPIPropModules, and $wgAPIListModules settings) now allow API modules
+  to be specified using a "module spec" array instead of a plain class name.
+  A "module spec" is an associative array containing at least the 'class' key
+  for the module's class, and optionally a 'factory' key for the factory function
+  to use for the module. This is intended for extensions that want control over
+  the instantiation of their API modules, to allow for proper dependency
+  injection.
 
 === Languages updated in 1.24 ===
 
@@ -282,6 +295,16 @@ changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
   and filelinks tables. Run update.php to apply this change to the schema.
 * Removed File::sha1Base36(). (deprecated since 1.19)
 * Removed File::getPropsFromPath(). (deprecated since 1.19)
+* Removed functions blockedPage(), noCreatePermission(), readOnlyPage() and
+  userNotLoggedInPage() from EditPage.php. (deprecated since 1.19)
+* Removed functions getContent(), getPreloadedText(), mergeChangesInto() and
+  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.
 
 ==== Renamed classes ====
 * CLDRPluralRuleConverter_Expression to CLDRPluralRuleConverterExpression