Add deprecation notices to recent s/var/public/ property changes.

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

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.24 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.24
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--- a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.24
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.24
@@ -9,8 +9,18 @@ MediaWiki 1.24 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in
 production.
 
 === Configuration changes in 1.24 ===
+* The server's canonical hostname is available as $wgServerName, which is
+  exposed in both mw.config and ApiQuerySiteInfo.
 
 === New features in 1.24 ===
+* Added a new hook, "WhatLinksHereProps", to allow extensions to annotate
+  WhatLinksHere entries.
+* HTMLForm's HTMLTextField now supports the 'url' type.
+* HTMLForm fields may now be dynamically hidden based on the values of other
+  fields in the form.
+* HTMLForm now supports multiple copies of an input field or set of input
+  fields, e.g. the form may request "one or more usernames" without having to
+  have the user enter delimited list of names into a text field.
 
 === Bug fixes in 1.24 ===
 * (bug 62258) A bug was fixed in File::getUnscaledThumb when a height
@@ -18,8 +28,15 @@ production.
   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 39035) Improved Vector skin performance by removing collapsibleNav,
+  which used to collapse some sidebar elements by default.
+* (bug 890) Links in Special:RecentChanges and Special:Watchlist no longer
+  follow redirects to their target pages.
+* Parser now dies early if called recursively, instead of producing subtle bugs.
 
 === Web API changes in 1.24 ===
+* action=parse API now supports prop=modules, which provides the list of
+  ResourceLoader modules that should be used to enhance the parsed content.
 
 === Languages updated in 1.24 ===
 
@@ -32,12 +49,16 @@ changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
 * The deprecated function mw.util.toggleToc was removed.
 * The Special:Search hooks SpecialSearchGo and SpecialSearchResultsAppend
   were removed as they were unused.
+* mediawiki.util.$content no longer supports old versions of the Vector,
+  Monobook, Modern and CologneBlue skins that don't yet implement the "mw-body"
+  and/or "mw-body-primary" class name in their html.
 
 ==== Renamed classes ====
 * CLDRPluralRuleConverter_Expression to CLDRPluralRuleConverterExpression
 * CLDRPluralRuleConverter_Fragment to CLDRPluralRuleConverterFragment
 * CLDRPluralRuleConverter_Operator to CLDRPluralRuleConverterOperator
 * CLDRPluralRuleEvaluator_Range to CLDRPluralRuleEvaluatorRange
+* CSSJanus_Tokenizer to CSSJanusTokenizer
 
 == Compatibility ==
 
@@ -57,7 +78,7 @@ The supported versions are:
 
 == Upgrading ==
 
-1.24 has several database changes since 1.22, and will not work without schema
+1.24 has several database changes since 1.23, and will not work without schema
 updates. Note that due to changes to some very large tables like the revision
 table, the schema update may take quite long (minutes on a medium sized site,
 many hours on a large site).