input methods provided by the UniversalLanguageSelector extension.
* When $wgPingback is true, MediaWiki will periodically ping
https://www.mediawiki.org/beacon with basic information about the local
- MediaWiki installation. This data includes, for example, the type of system,
+ MediaWiki installation. This data includes, for example, the type of system,
PHP version, and chosen database backend. This behavior is off by default.
+* When $EditSubmitButtonLabelPublish is true, MediaWiki will label the button
+ to store-to-database-and-show-to-others as "Publish page"/"Publish changes";
+ if false, the default, they will be "Save page"/"Save changes".
+* The 'editcontentmodel' permission is now granted to all logged-in users ('user').
+ instead of just administrators ('sysop'). Documentation for this feature is
+ available at <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:ChangeContentModel>.
+* $wgRevisionCacheExpiry is now set to one week by default instead of being disabled.
=== New features in 1.28 ===
* User::isBot() method for checking if an account is a bot role account.
* (T141604) Extensions can now provide a better error message when their
maintenance scripts are run without the extension being installed.
* (T8948) Numeric sorting in categories is now supported by setting $wgCategoryCollation
- to uca-default-u-kn or uca-<langcode>-u-kn. If migrating from another
+ to 'uca-default-u-kn' or 'uca-<langcode>-u-kn'. If you can't use UCA collations,
+ a 'numeric' collation is also available. If migrating from another
collation, you will need to run the updateCollation.php maintenance script.
+* Two new codes have been added to #time parser function: "xit" for days in current
+ month, and "xiz" for days passed in the year, both in Iranian calendar.
+* mw.Api has a new option, useUS, to use U+001F (Unit Separator) when
+ appropriate for sending multi-valued parameters. This defaults to true when
+ the mw.Api instance seems to be for the local wiki.
=== External library changes in 1.28 ===
action=createaccount, action=linkaccount, and action=changeauthenticationdata
in the query string is now deprecated and outputs a warning. They should be
submitted in the POST body instead.
+* (T141960) Multi-valued parameters may now be separated using U+001F (Unit Separator)
+ instead of the pipe character. This will be useful if some of the multiple
+ values need to contain pipes, e.g. for action=options.
+* The API will now warn if input is not NFC-normalized Unicode or if it
+ contains invalid characters.
+* The 'normalized' list output by action=query and other modules that use
+ ApiPageSet may contain entries where the 'from' value is percent-encoded as
+ the raw value cannot be represented in a valid API response. These are
+ indicated by a 'fromencoded' boolean alongside the existing 'from' parameter.
+* (T28680) action=paraminfo can now return info about all submodules of a
+ module without listing them all explicitly.
=== Action API internal changes in 1.28 ===
* Added a new hook, 'ApiMakeParserOptions', to allow extensions to better
=== Other changes in 1.28 ===
* (T128697) Improved handling of large diffs.
-* [BREAKING CHANGE] $wgExtendedLoginCookies has been removed. You can
+* [BREAKING CHANGE] $wgExtendedLoginCookies has been removed. You can
use or update a custom session provider if needed.
* Deprecated APIEditBeforeSave hook in favor of EditFilterMergedContent.
* The 'UploadVerification' hook is deprecated. Use 'UploadVerifyFile' instead.
login and visiting the login page while already logged in.
* ResourceLoader::makeLoaderURL() was removed (deprecated since 1.24).
* $.fn.liveAndTestAtStart was removed (deprecated since 1.24).
+* mw.util.tooltipAccessKeyPrefix was removed (deprecated since 1.24).
+* mw.util.tooltipAccessKeyRegexp was removed (deprecated since 1.24).
* Linker::link() and Linker::linkKnown() were deprecated; please instead use
MediaWiki\Linker\LinkRenderer. In addition, the LinkBegin and LinkEnd hooks
were replaced by HtmlPageLinkRendererBegin and HtmlPageLinkRendererEnd