Merge "Made QueryPage use startAtomic() for trx handling"

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

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.24 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.24
index 67b47bf..ce083e0 100644 (file)
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.24
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@@ -185,6 +185,12 @@ production.
 * Added HTMLAutoCompleteSelectField.
 * Added a new hook, "SkinPreloadExistence", to allow extensions to add titles to
   link existence cache before the page is rendered.
+* Config::set() was moved to its own interface, MutableConfig. GlobalVarConfig::set()
+  is now deprecated, does not implement MutableConfig.
+* A MutableConfig named HashConfig was added, that stores an array of configuration
+  settings.
+* (bug 69418) A MultiConfig implementation was added that supports fallback
+  to multiple Config instances.
 
 === Bug fixes in 1.24 ===
 * (bug 50572) MediaWiki:Blockip should support gender
@@ -263,6 +269,10 @@ production.
 * (bug 63326) Add blockedtimestamp field to output of blockinfo property for
   the list=allusers and list=users modules.
 * prop=imageinfo no longer requires iiurlwidth to be set when using iiurlparam.
+* Added prop=linkshere, prop=fileusage, and prop=transcludedin, which are
+  roughly equivalent to list=backlinks, list=imageusage, and list=embeddedin
+  but can work on a list of titles (including titles from a generator).
+* prop=redirects can now filter returned redirects by namespace.
 
 === Action API internal changes in 1.24 ===
 * Methods for handling continuation are added to ApiResult, so actions other
@@ -292,6 +302,8 @@ production.
     ApiTokensGetTokenTypes are deprecated, but are still called to support
     backwards-compatible token access.
 * ApiBase::validateLimit and ApiBase::validateTimestamp are now protected.
+* ApiQueryRedirects was removed; prop=redirects is now implemented by
+  ApiQueryBacklinksProp along with the newly-added prop modules.
 * The following methods have been deprecated and may be removed in a future
   release:
   * ApiBase::getResultProperties