* Introduced $wgPagePropsHaveSortkey as a backwards-compatibility switch,
for using the old schema of the page_props table, in case the respective
schema update was not applied.
+* $wgSearchEverythingOnlyLoggedIn was removed as the 'searcheverything'
+ user option was removed. Use $wgNamespacesToBeSearchedDefault instead or
+ if you used to have $wgDefaultUserOptions['searcheverything'] = 1.
+* $wgMasterWaitTimeout has been deprecated.
+* $wgDBClusterTimeout has been removed.
+* $wgProxyKey has been removed. It is no longer used by MediaWiki core.
+ Ensure $wgSecretKey is set in LocalSettings.php.
=== New features in 1.24 ===
* Added a new hook, "WhatLinksHereProps", to allow extensions to annotate
* Added a new hook, "SidebarBeforeOutput", to allow to edit the structure of
the sidebar just before its display.
* (bug 49156) Added the mediawiki.cookie ResourceLoader module, which wraps
- jQuery.cookie so that getting/setting a cookie is syntactically and functionally
- similar to using the WebRequest#getCookie/WebResponse#setcookie methods.
-* (bug 44740) jQuery upgraded from 1.8.3 to 1.11.1.
+ jquery.cookie so that getting/setting a cookie is syntactically and
+ functionally similar to using the WebRequest::getCookie() and
+ WebResponse::setcookie() methods.
+* (bug 44740) jQuery upgraded from 1.8.3 to 1.11.1. A new configuration option,
+ $wgIncludejQueryMigrate, also loads the jQuery Migrate hack to let extensions
+ and gadgets use the long-deprecated functions that were removed in jQuery 1.9.
+ This option is turned off by default, and will be removed in MediaWiki 1.25.
+* (bug 47076) jQuery UI upgraded from 1.8.24 to 1.9.2.
* Changes to content typography (fonts, etc.). See
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_refresh for further information.
* WikitextContent will now render redirects with the expected "redirect"
can probably be changed to no longer special-case redirects.
* Header font set to a serif font stack. See
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_refresh for further information.
-* (bug 63903) Thumbnails without an explicit size specification are
- now resized to a square bounding box. This gives better results for
- non-landscape thumbnails.
-* (bug 65567) Added a new hook, "BeforeHttpsRedirect", to allow cancellation of the HTTP
- to HTTPS redirect due to forceHTTPS cookie, userRequires, etc. This is only for page views,
- since this hook doesn't affect UserLogin, OAuth, CentralAuth, etc.
- ATTENTION: This hook is likely to be removed soon due to overall design of the system.
+* (bug 65567) Added a new hook, "BeforeHttpsRedirect", to allow cancellation of
+ the HTTP to HTTPS redirect due to forceHTTPS cookie, userRequires, etc. This
+ is only for page views, since this hook doesn't affect UserLogin, OAuth,
+ CentralAuth, etc. ATTENTION: This hook is likely to be removed soon due to
+ overall design of the system.
+* (bug 17367) It is now possible to add pages to your watchlist from
+ Special:UnwatchedPages without reloading the special page.
+* New methods setVolatile and isVolatile are added to PPFrame, so that
+ extensions such as Cite.php can mark that their output is volatile and
+ shouldn't be cached.
+* (bug 52817) Advanced search options are now saved on the search page itself,
+ rather than in a dedicated pane in the preferences panel.
+* (bug 44591) The dropdown actions menu (little triangle next to page tabs) in
+ the Vector skin has gained a label that should make it more discoverable.
+* MWCryptHKDF added for fast, cryptographically secure random number generation
+ that won't deplete openssl's entropy pool.
+* ResourceLoader: File modules can now provide a skip function that uses an
+ inline feature test to bypass loading of the module.
+* (bug 20210) Special pages may now provide autocompletion of their subpage
+ names in search suggestions. Right now the only useful implementation is in
+ Special:Log, but more are to come.
+* Special:MostLinkedTemplates is no longer limited to transclusions from the
+ Template namespace.
=== Bug fixes in 1.24 ===
* (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
- restriction was present in the parameters. Images with both the "frame"
+ restriction was present in the parameters. Images with both the "frame"
option and a size specification set will now always ignore the provided
size and display an unscaled image, as the documentation has always
claimed it would.
specified.
* action=logevents has a new parameter, lenamespace, to allow filtering by
namespace.
+* action=expandtemplates has a new parameter, prop, and a new output format.
+ The old format is still used if prop isn't provided, but this is deprecated.
+* meta=userinfo can now return the count of unread pages on the watchlist.
+* list=watchlist can now filter by unread status.
=== Languages updated in 1.24 ===
core to their own respective repositories. See also
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Modern and
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:CologneBlue.
+* BREAKING CHANGE: Skins built for MediaWiki 1.15 and earlier that do not use
+ the "headelement" template key are no longer supported. Setting
+ $useHeadElement = false; is no longer supported and will not cause old keys
+ like "headlinks", "skinnameclass", etc. to be defined.
+* The deprecated 'SpecialVersionExtensionTypes' hook was removed.
+* (bug 63891) Add 'X-Robots-Tag: noindex' header in action=render pages.
+* SpecialPage no longer supports the syntax for invoking wfSpecial*() functions.
+ Special pages should subclass SpecialPage and implement the execute() method.
+* (bug 63755) The deprecated constants RC_MOVE and RC_MOVE_OVER_REDIRECT were
+ removed.
+* Special:MostLinkedTemplates has been renamed to Special:MostTranscludedPages.
+* The skin autodiscovery mechanism has been deprecated and will be removed in
+ MediaWiki 1.25. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skin_autodiscovery
+ for migration guide for creators and users of custom skins that relied on it.
==== Renamed classes ====
* CLDRPluralRuleConverter_Expression to CLDRPluralRuleConverterExpression
See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
-For notes on 1.22.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
+For notes on 1.23.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
== Online documentation ==