New hook: OpportunisticLinksUpdate

[lhc/web/wiklou.git] / RELEASE-NOTES-1.25

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.25 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.25
index 5e08efd..a31461c 100644 (file)
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.25
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.25
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ production.
 * 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.
+* $wgAutopromoteOnce no longer supports the 'view' event. For keeping some
+  compatibility, any 'view' event triggers will still trigger on 'edit'.
 
 === New features in 1.25 ===
 * (T64861) Updated plural rules to CLDR 26. Includes incompatible changes
@@ -115,6 +117,8 @@ production.
   interface, reachable via IContextSource::getStats().
 * Move the jQuery Client library from being mastered in MediaWiki as v0.1.0 to a
   proper, published library, which is now tagged as v1.0.0.
+* A new message (defaulting to blank), 'editnotice-notext', can be shown to users
+  when they are editing if no edit notices apply to the page being edited.
 
 ==== External libraries ====
 * MediaWiki now requires certain external libraries to be installed. In the past
@@ -174,6 +178,8 @@ production.
   This requires the fa_sha1 field being populated.
 * Removed rel="archives" from the "View history" link, as it did not pass
   HTML validation.
+* $wgUseTidy is now set when parserTests are run with the tidy option to match
+  output on wiki.
 
 === Action API changes in 1.25 ===
 * (T67403) XML tag highlighting is now only performed for formats
@@ -402,9 +408,20 @@ changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
   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.
+* Introduced new hook 'OpportunisticLinksUpdate' that allows extensions to perform
+  updates when a page is re-rendered.
 * 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.
+* Removed class DBObject. (unused since 1.10)
+* wfDiff() is deprecated.
+* The -m (maximum replication lag) option of refreshLinks.php was removed.
+  It had no effect since MediaWiki 1.18 and should be removed from any cron
+  jobs or similar scripts you may have set up.
+* (T85864) The following messages no longer support raw html: redirectto,
+  thisisdeleted, viewdeleted, editlink, retrievedfrom, version-poweredby-others,
+  retrievedfrom, thisisdeleted, viewsourcelink, lastmodifiedat, laggedslavemode,
+  protect-summary-cascade
 
 == Compatibility ==
 
@@ -417,7 +434,7 @@ Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
 
 The supported versions are:
 
-* MySQL 5.0.2 or later
+* MySQL 5.0.3 or later
 * PostgreSQL 8.3 or later
 * SQLite 3.3.7 or later
 * Oracle 9.0.1 or later