New hook: OpportunisticLinksUpdate

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

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.25 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.25
index 642fef8..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
@@ -111,6 +113,12 @@ production.
   used for conditional registration of API modules.
 * New hook 'EnhancedChangesList::getLogText' to alter, remove or add to the
   links of a group of changes in EnhancedChangesList.
+* A full interface for StatsD metric reporting has been added to the context
+  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
@@ -137,6 +145,8 @@ production.
    This library was formerly a part of MediaWiki core, and has been moved into a separate library.
    It provides CDB functions which are used in the Interwiki and Localization caches.
    More information about the library can be found at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CDB.
+** liuggio/statsd-php-client
+   This library provides a StatsD client API for logging application metrics to a remote server.
 
 === Bug fixes in 1.25 ===
 * (T73003) No additional code will be generated to try to load CSS-embedded
@@ -166,6 +176,10 @@ production.
   (instead of returning incorrect results) even when the page ID is known.
 * (T74070) Duplicate search for archived files on file upload now omits the extension.
   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
@@ -266,6 +280,7 @@ production.
 * Added ApiBase::lacksSameOriginSecurity() to allow modules to easily check if
   the current request was sent with the 'callback' parameter (or any future
   method that breaks the same-origin policy).
+* Profiling methods in ApiBase are deprecated and no longer need to be called.
 * The following methods have been deprecated and may be removed in a future
   release:
   * ApiBase::getDescription
@@ -274,6 +289,14 @@ production.
   * ApiBase::makeHelpMsg
   * ApiBase::makeHelpArrayToString
   * ApiBase::makeHelpMsgParameters
+  * ApiBase::getModuleProfileName
+  * ApiBase::profileIn
+  * ApiBase::profileOut
+  * ApiBase::safeProfileOut
+  * ApiBase::getProfileTime
+  * ApiBase::profileDBIn
+  * ApiBase::profileDBOut
+  * ApiBase::getProfileDBTime
   * ApiFormatBase::setUnescapeAmps
   * ApiFormatBase::getWantsHelp
   * ApiFormatBase::setHelp
@@ -296,6 +319,8 @@ changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
 
 * (T66440) Kazakh (kk) wikis should no longer forcefully reset the user's
   interface language to kk where unexpected.
+* The Chinese conversion table was substantially updated to fix a lot of
+  bugs and ensure better reading experience for different variants.
 
 === Other changes in 1.25 ===
 * The skin autodiscovery mechanism, deprecated in MediaWiki 1.23, has been
@@ -383,9 +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 ==
 
@@ -398,7 +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