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 fa8ed00..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
@@ -125,8 +128,6 @@ production.
 * Upgrade jQuery Cookie to v1.3.1.
 * (bug 20476) Add a "viewsuppressed" user right to be able to view
   suppressed content but not suppress it ("suppressrevision" right).
-* Added a new hook, "OutputPageScriptsForBottomQueue", to add modules to the
-  bottom queue that should be requested in a dedicated <script> request.
 * (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.
@@ -138,6 +139,10 @@ production.
 * MediaWiki now supports multiple password types, including bcrypt and PBKDF2.
   The default type can be changed with $wgPasswordDefault and the type
   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