of search, you should use something like CirrusSearch instead of built in
search.
* Users in the 'sysop' group have access to Special:MergeHistory by default.
+* $wgFileStore was removed after having been deprecated in 1.17. Alternative
+ configurations are $wgDeletedDirectory and $wgHashedUploadDirectory.
=== New features in 1.24 ===
* Added a new hook, "WhatLinksHereProps", to allow extensions to annotate
permission needs to be set for 'pagelang'.
* Upgrade Moment.js to v2.7.0.
* (bug 67042) Added support for the HTML5 <rtc> tag for East Asian typography.
+* Upgrade Sinon.JS to 1.10.3.
+* Added the es5-shim polyfill for older or non-compliant javascript engines.
=== Bug fixes in 1.24 ===
* (bug 49116) Footer copyright notice is now always displayed in user language
* Removed Title::escapeCanonicalURL(). (deprecated since 1.19)
* Removed Title::escapeLocalURL(). (deprecated since 1.19)
* Removed Title::escapeFullURL(). (deprecated since 1.19)
+* Removed User::isValidEmailAddr(). (deprecated since 1.18)
+* Removed Title::getEscapedText(). (deprecated since 1.19)
+* Removed Language::getFallbackLanguageCode(). (deprecated since 1.19)
+* Removed WikiPage::isBigDeletion(). (deprecated since 1.19)
+* Removed MWInit class which contained functions related to a now discontinued
+ PHP compiler called hphpc. (deprecated since 1.22)
==== Renamed classes ====
* CLDRPluralRuleConverter_Expression to CLDRPluralRuleConverterExpression