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diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.25 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.25
index aa421cbe17..d1745d23ec 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.25
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.25
@@ -36,6 +36,15 @@ production.
 * ProfilerStandard and ProfilerSimpleTrace were removed. Make sure that any
   StartProfiler.php config is updated to reflect this. Xhprof is available
   for zend/hhvm. Also, for hhvm, one can consider using its xenon profiler.
+* Default value of $wgSVGConverters['rsvg'] now uses the 'rsvg-convert' binary
+  rather than 'rsvg'.
+* Default value of $wgSVGConverters['ImageMagick'] now uses transparent
+  background with white fallback color, rather than just white background.
+ * MediaWikiBagOStuff class removed, make sure any object cache config
+   uses SqlBagOStuff instead.
+* The 'daemonized' flag must be set to true in $wgJobTypeConf for any redis
+  job queues. This means that mediawiki/services/jobrunner service has to
+  be installed and running for any such queues to work.
 
 === New features in 1.25 ===
 * (T64861) Updated plural rules to CLDR 26. Includes incompatible changes
@@ -77,9 +86,33 @@ production.
 * External libraries installed via composer will now be displayed
   on Special:Version in their own section. Extensions or skins that are
   installed via composer will not be shown in this section as it is assumed
-  they will add the proper credits to the skins or extensions section.
+  they will add the proper credits to the skins or extensions section. They
+  can also be accessed through the API via the new siprop=libraries to
+  ApiQuerySiteInfo.
 * Update QUnit from v1.14.0 to v1.16.0.
 * Update Moment.js from v2.8.3 to v2.8.4.
+* Special:Tags now allows for manipulating the list of user-modifiable change
+  tags. Actually modifying the tagging of a revision or log entry is not
+  implemented yet.
+* Added 'managetags' user right and 'ChangeTagCanCreate', 'ChangeTagCanDelete',
+  and 'ChangeTagCanCreate' hooks to allow for managing user-modifiable change
+  tags.
+* Added 'ChangeTagsListActive' hook, to separate the concepts of "defined" and
+  "active" formerly conflated by the 'ListDefinedTags' hook.
+* Added TemplateParser class that provides a server-side interface to cachable
+  dynamically-compiled Mustache templates (currently uses lightncandy library).
+* Clickable anchors for each section heading in the content are now generated
+  and appear in the gutter on hovering over the heading.
+* Added 'CategoryViewer::doCategoryQuery' and 'CategoryViewer::generateLink' hooks
+  to allow extensions to override how links to pages are rendered within NS_CATEGORY
+* (T19665) Special:WantedPages only lists page which having at least one red link
+  pointing to it.
+* New hooks 'ApiMain::moduleManager' and 'ApiQuery::moduleManager', can be
+  used for conditional registration of API modules.
+* New hook 'EnhancedChangesList::getLogText' to alter, remove or add to the
+  links of a group of changes in EnhancedChangesList.
+* A full interface for StatsD metric reporting has been added to the context
+  interface, reachable via IContextSource::getStats().
 
 ==== External libraries ====
 * MediaWiki now requires certain external libraries to be installed. In the past
@@ -106,6 +139,8 @@ production.
    This library was formerly a part of MediaWiki core, and has been moved into a separate library.
    It provides CDB functions which are used in the Interwiki and Localization caches.
    More information about the library can be found at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CDB.
+** liuggio/statsd-php-client
+   This library provides a StatsD client API for logging application metrics to a remote server.
 
 === Bug fixes in 1.25 ===
 * (T73003) No additional code will be generated to try to load CSS-embedded
@@ -133,6 +168,10 @@ production.
 ** 'extend' method added to QuickTemplate to append additional values to any field of data array
 * (T86974) Several Title methods now load from the database when necessary
   (instead of returning incorrect results) even when the page ID is known.
+* (T74070) Duplicate search for archived files on file upload now omits the extension.
+  This requires the fa_sha1 field being populated.
+* Removed rel="archives" from the "View history" link, as it did not pass
+  HTML validation.
 
 === Action API changes in 1.25 ===
 * (T67403) XML tag highlighting is now only performed for formats
@@ -186,6 +225,17 @@ production.
   interwiki redirects to the list of interwiki titles.
 * (T85417) When outputting the list of redirect titles, a 'tointerwiki'
   property (like the existing 'tofragment' property) will be set.
+* Added action=managetags to allow for managing the list of
+  user-modifiable change tags. Actually modifying the tagging of a revision or
+  log entry is not implemented yet.
+* list=tags has additional properties to indicate 'active' status and tag
+  sources.
+* siprop=libraries was added to ApiQuerySiteInfo to list installed external libraries.
+* (T88010) Added action=checktoken, to test a CSRF token's validity.
+* (T88010) Added intestactions to prop=info, to allow querying of
+  Title::userCan() via the API.
+* Default type param for query list=watchlist and list=recentchanges has
+  been changed from all types (e.g. including 'external') to 'edit|new|log'.
 
 === Action API internal changes in 1.25 ===
 * ApiHelp has been rewritten to support i18n and paginated HTML output.
@@ -217,6 +267,12 @@ production.
   provided to access just the live or just the deleted revids.
 * Added ApiPageSet::setGeneratorData() and ApiPageSet::populateGeneratorData()
   to allow generators to include data in the action=query result.
+* New hooks 'ApiMain::moduleManager' and 'ApiQuery::moduleManager', can be
+  used for conditional registration of API modules.
+* Added ApiBase::lacksSameOriginSecurity() to allow modules to easily check if
+  the current request was sent with the 'callback' parameter (or any future
+  method that breaks the same-origin policy).
+* Profiling methods in ApiBase are deprecated and no longer need to be called.
 * The following methods have been deprecated and may be removed in a future
   release:
   * ApiBase::getDescription
@@ -225,6 +281,14 @@ production.
   * ApiBase::makeHelpMsg
   * ApiBase::makeHelpArrayToString
   * ApiBase::makeHelpMsgParameters
+  * ApiBase::getModuleProfileName
+  * ApiBase::profileIn
+  * ApiBase::profileOut
+  * ApiBase::safeProfileOut
+  * ApiBase::getProfileTime
+  * ApiBase::profileDBIn
+  * ApiBase::profileDBOut
+  * ApiBase::getProfileDBTime
   * ApiFormatBase::setUnescapeAmps
   * ApiFormatBase::getWantsHelp
   * ApiFormatBase::setHelp
@@ -247,12 +311,14 @@ changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
 
 * (T66440) Kazakh (kk) wikis should no longer forcefully reset the user's
   interface language to kk where unexpected.
+* The Chinese conversion table was substantially updated to fix a lot of
+  bugs and ensure better reading experience for different variants.
 
 === Other changes in 1.25 ===
 * The skin autodiscovery mechanism, deprecated in MediaWiki 1.23, has been
   removed. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skin_autodiscovery for
   migration guide for creators and users of custom skins that relied on it.
-* Javascript variable 'wgFileCanRotate' and 'wgFileExtensions' now only
+* Javascript variables 'wgFileCanRotate' and 'wgFileExtensions' now only
   available on Special:Upload.
 * (T58257) Set site logo from mediawiki.skinning.interface module instead of
   inline styles in the HTML.
@@ -322,6 +388,21 @@ changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
     Instead, do this:
       $form = HTMLForm::factory( 'vform', … );
 * Deprecated Revision methods getRawUser(), getRawUserText() and getRawComment().
+* BREAKING CHANGE: mediawiki.user.generateRandomSessionId:
+  The alphabet of the prior string returned was A-Za-z0-9 and now it is 0-9A-F
+* (T87504) Avoid serving SVG background-images in CSS for Opera 12, which
+  renders them incorrectly when combined with border-radius or background-size.
+* Removed maintenance script dumpSisterSites.php.
+* DatabaseBase class constructors must be called using the array argument style.
+  Ideally, DatabaseBase:factory() should be used instead in most cases.
+* Deprecated ParserOutput::addSecondaryDataUpdate and ParserOutput::getSecondaryDataUpdates.
+  This is a hard deprecation, with getSecondaryDataUpdates returning an empty array and
+  addSecondaryDataUpdate throwing an exception. These functions will be removed in 1.26,
+  since they interfere with caching of ParserOutput objects.
+* Introduced new hook 'SecondaryDataUpdates' that allows extensions to inject custom updates.
+* EditPage::attemptSave has been modified not to call handleStatus itself and
+  instead just returns the Status object. Extension calling it should be aware of
+  this.
 
 == Compatibility ==