Merge "(bug 12701) Use diff of all unseen revisions in the "new messages" bar."

[lhc/web/wiklou.git] / RELEASE-NOTES-1.20

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.20 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.20
index 9383bf2..dfd747f 100644 (file)
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.20
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.20
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ upgrade PHP if you have not done so prior to upgrading MediaWiki.
 * The user right 'upload_by_url' is no longer given to sysops by default.
   This only affects installations which have $wgAllowCopyUploads set to true.
 * Removed f-prot support from $wgAntivirusSetup.
-* $wgDBerrorLogInUTC to log error in $wgDBerrorLog using an UTC date instead
-  of the wiki timezone set by $wgLocalTimezone.
+* New variable $wgDBerrorLogTZ to provide dates in the error log in a
+  different timezone than the wiki timezone set by $wgLocalTimezone.
 
 === New features in 1.20 ===
 * Added TitleIsAlwaysKnown hook which gets called when determining if a page exists.
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ upgrade PHP if you have not done so prior to upgrading MediaWiki.
 * Added SpecialPageAfterExecute hook which gets called after SpecialPage::execute.
 * Added ORMTable, ORMRow and ORMResult classes for additional abstraction of
   database interaction.
+* Added CacheHelper and associated SpecialCachedPage and CachedAction helper classes.
 * (bug 32341) Add upload by URL domain limitation.
 * &useskin=default will now always display the default skin. Useful for users with a
   preference for the non-default skin to look at something using the default skin.
@@ -105,6 +106,19 @@ upgrade PHP if you have not done so prior to upgrading MediaWiki.
   and 'subcats'
 * (bug 38362) Make Special:Listuser includeable on wiki pages.
 * Added support in jquery.localize for placeholder attributes.
+* (bug 38151) Implemented mw.user.getRights for getting and caching the current
+  user's user rights.
+* Session storage can now configured independently of general object cache 
+  storage, by using $wgSessionCacheType. $wgSessionsInMemcached has been 
+  renamed to $wgSessionsInObjectCache, with the old name retained for backwards
+  compatibility. When this feature is enabled, the expiry time can now be 
+  configured with $wgObjectCacheSessionExpiry.
+* Implemented mw.user.getGroups for getting and caching user groups.
+* (bug 37830) Added $wgRequirePasswordforEmailChange to control whether password
+  confirmation is required for changing an email address or not.
+* HTMLForm mutators can now be chained (they return $this)
+* A new message, "api-error-filetype-banned-type", is available for formatting
+  API upload errors due to the file extension blacklist.
 
 === Bug fixes in 1.20 ===
 * (bug 30245) Use the correct way to construct a log page title.
@@ -176,6 +190,15 @@ upgrade PHP if you have not done so prior to upgrading MediaWiki.
 * (bug 38093) Gender of changed user groups missing in Special:Log/rights
 * (bug 35893) Special:Block needs to load mediawiki.special.block.js.
 * (bug 37331) ResourceLoader modules sometimes execute twice in Firefox
+* (bug 31644) GlobalUsage, CentralAuth and AbuseLog extensions should not use
+  insecure links to foreign wikis in the WikiMap.
+* (bug 36073) Avoid duplicate element IDs on File pages
+* (bug 25095) Special:Categories should also include the first relevant item
+  when "from" is filled.
+* (bug 35526) jquery.tablesorter now uses a stable sort.
+* (bug 38953) --memory-limit switch not working for runJobs.php.
+* (bug 33037) Make subpage of Special:newfiles control how many files
+  are returned, like in previous versions.
 
 === API changes in 1.20 ===
 * (bug 34316) Add ability to retrieve maximum upload size from MediaWiki API.
@@ -207,6 +230,11 @@ upgrade PHP if you have not done so prior to upgrading MediaWiki.
 * (bug 38190) Add "required" flag to some token params for hint in api docs.
 * (bug 27567) Add file repo support to prop=duplicatefiles.
 * (bug 27610) Add archivename for non-latest image version to list=filearchive
+* (bug 38231) Add xml parse tree to action=parse.
+* Watchlist notification timestamp may be queried by page and may be updated via the API.
+* (bug 38904) prop=revisions&rvstart=... no longer blows up when continuing.
+* (bug 39032) ApiQuery generates help in constructor.
+* (bug 11142) Improve file extension blacklist error reporting in API upload
 
 === Languages updated in 1.20 ===
 
@@ -236,6 +264,10 @@ changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
   and only applies to MyISAM or similar DBs. Those should only be used
   for archived sites anyway. We can't get edit conflicts on such sites,
   so the WikiPage code wasn't useful there either.
+* Deprecated mw.user.name in favour of mw.user.getName.
+* Deprecated mw.user.anonymous in favour of mw.user.isAnon.
+* Deprecated DatabaseBase functions newFromParams(), newFromType(), set(),
+  quote_ident(), and escapeLike() were removed.
 
 == Compatibility ==