* $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.
+* $wgExtraInterlanguageLinkPrefixes is a new configuration variable that
+ contains an array of interwiki prefixes that should be treated as language
+ prefixes (i.e. turned into interlanguage links when $wgInterwikiMagic is set
+ to true).
=== 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.
+ 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.
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 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 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.
+* Skins can now use 'remoteSkinPath' when defining ResourceLoader modules.
+ This works the same as 'remoteExtPath' but is relative to the skins/ folder
+ instead of the extensions/ folder.
+* Extensions and skins may now use 'namemsg' in $wgExtensionCredits in addition
+ to 'name', to allow for the name to be localizable. 'name' should still be
+ specified for backwards-compatibility and to define the path Special:Version
+ uses to find extension license information.
=== 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.
* (bug 52587) Maintenance script deleteBatch.php no longer follows redirects
in the file namespace and delete the file on the target page. It will still
however delete the redirect page.
+* (bug 22683) {{msgnw:}} and other uses of PPFrame::RECOVER_ORIG will correctly
+ recover the original code of extension tags.
=== Web API changes in 1.24 ===
* action=parse API now supports prop=modules, which provides the list of
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 ===
* 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.
- All special pages should subclass SpecialPage and implement the execute() method.
+ 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.
+* ResourceLoaderFileModule#getAllStyleFiles now returns all style files and all
+ skin style files used by the module.
+* Removed getLang() from IContextSource and subclasses. (deprecated since 1.19)
+* Removed setLang() from subclasses of IContextSource. (deprecated since 1.19)
+* Removed WebRequest::escapeAppendQuery(). (deprecated since 1.20)
+* Removed info(), purge(), revert() and rollback() from the Article class; they
+ have since become subclasses of the Action class. (deprecated since 1.19)
==== 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 ==