UserGetLanguageObject hook should accept any IContextSource

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

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.25 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.25
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--- a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.25
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.25
@@ -16,8 +16,14 @@ production.
   validity must be checked by passing the user-supplied token to
   User::matchEditToken rather than by testing for equality with a
   newly-generated token.
+* (bug 72951) The UserGetLanguageObject hook may be passed any IContextSource
+  for its $context parameter. Formerly it was documented as receiving a
+  RequestContext specifically.
 
 === New features in 1.25 ===
+* (bug 62861) Updated plural rules to CLDR 26. Includes incompatible changes
+  for plural forms in Russian, Prussian, Tagalog, Manx and several languages
+  that fall back to Russian.
 * (bug 58139) ResourceLoaderFileModule now supports language fallback
   for 'languageScripts'.
 * Added a new hook, "ContentAlterParserOutput", to allow extensions to modify the
@@ -39,12 +45,24 @@ production.
     https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skinning#Page_status_indicators
 * Edit tokens may now be time-limited: passing a maximum age to
   User::matchEditToken will reject any older tokens.
+* The debug logging internals have been overhauled, and are now using the
+  PSR-3 interfaces.
 
 === Bug fixes in 1.25 ===
 * (bug 71003) No additional code will be generated to try to load CSS-embedded
   SVG images in Internet Explorer 6 and 7, as they don't support them anyway.
 * (bug 67021) On Special:BookSources, corrected validation of ISBNs (both
   10- and 13-digit forms) containing "X".
+* Page moving was refactored into a MovePage class. As part of that:
+** The AbortMove hook was removed.
+** MovePageIsValidMove is for extensions to specify whether a page
+   cannot be moved for technical reasons, and should not be overriden.
+** MovePageCheckPermissions is for checking whether the given user is
+   allowed to make the move.
+** Title::moveNoAuth() was deprecated. Use the MovePage class instead.
+** Title::moveTo() was deprecated. Use the MovePage class instead.
+** Title::isValidMoveOperation() broken down into MovePage::isValidMove()
+   and MovePage::checkPermissions().
 
 === Action API changes in 1.25 ===
 * (bug 65403) XML tag highlighting is now only performed for formats
@@ -141,10 +159,15 @@ changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
 * The "temp" zone of the upload respository is now considered private. If it
   already exists (such as under the images/ directory), please make sure that
   the directory is not web readable (e.g. via a .htaccess file).
+* BREAKING CHANGE: In the XML dump format used by Special:Export and
+  dumpBackup.php, the <model> and <format> tags now apprear before the <text>
+  tag, instead of after the <text> and <sha1> tags.
+  The new schema version is 0.10, the new schema URI is
+  <https://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.10.xsd>.
 
 == Compatibility ==
 
-MediaWiki 1.25 requires PHP 5.3.2 or later. There is experimental support for
+MediaWiki 1.25 requires PHP 5.3.3 or later. There is experimental support for
 HHVM 3.3.0.
 
 MySQL is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used, but