Merge "Sort 'MediaWiki' resources definitions alphabetically"

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@@ -67,6 +67,8 @@ production.
 * Default value of $wgMaxShellMemory has been tripled (it's now 300 MB).
 
 === New features in 1.22 ===
+* You can now install extensions using Composer.
+  See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Composer
 * (bug 44525) mediawiki.jqueryMsg can now parse (whitelisted) HTML elements and attributes.
 * (bug 33454) Language::sprintfDate now has a timezone parameter, and supports
   the "eIOPTZ" formatting characters.
@@ -253,13 +255,16 @@ production.
 * The 'UnwatchArticle' and 'WatchArticle' hooks now support a Status object
   instead of just a boolean return value to abort the hook.
 * Added a hook, SpecialWatchlistGetNonRevisionTypes, to allow extensions
-  with custom recentchanges entries to hook into the Watchlist without 
+  with custom recentchanges entries to hook into the Watchlist without
   clobbering each other.
 * A hidden, empty input field was added to the edit form, and any edit that fills
   it in will be rejected. This prevents against the simplest form of spambots.
   Previously in the "SimpleAntiSpam" extension by Ryan Schmidt.
 * populateRevisionLength.php maintenance script updated to also populate
   archive.ar_len field.
+* (bug 43571) DatabaseMySQLBase learned to list views, optionally filtered by a
+  prefix. Also fixed PHPUnit test suite when using a MySQL backend containing
+  views.
 
 === Bug fixes in 1.22 ===
 * (bug 47271) $wgContentHandlerUseDB should be set to false during the upgrade
@@ -348,6 +353,8 @@ production.
 * (bug 45288) Support mysqli PHP extension
 * (bug 55818) BREAKING CHANGE: Removed undocumented 'Debug' hook in wfDebug.
   This resolves an infinite loop when using $wgDebugFunctionEntry = true.
+* (bug 56707) Correct tooltip of "Next n results" on query special pages.
+* (bug 56770) mw.util.addPortletLink: Check length before access array index.
 
 === API changes in 1.22 ===
 * (bug 25553) The JSON output formatter now leaves forward slashes unescaped
@@ -420,15 +427,6 @@ changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
 * (bug 46751) Made Buryat (Russia) (буряад) (bxr) fallback to Russian.
 
 === Other changes in 1.22 ===
-* The rc_type field in the recentchanges table has been superseded by a new
-  rc_source field.  The rc_source field is a string representation of the
-  change type where rc_type was a numeric constant.  This field is not yet
-  queried but will be in a future point release of 1.22.  
-** Utilize update.php to create and populate this new field.  On larger wiki's
-   which do not wish to update recentchanges table in one large update please
-   review the sql and comments in maintenance/archives/patch-rc_source.sql.
-** The rc_type field of recentchanges will be deprecated in a future point
-   release.
 * BREAKING CHANGE: Implementation of MediaWiki's JS and JSON value encoding
   has changed:
 ** MediaWiki no longer supports PHP installations in which the native JSON
@@ -533,6 +531,9 @@ changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
   The file never contained any re-usable components. To use it in a skin, load
   'mediawiki.legacy.wikibits' (which IEFixes depends on) and that will import
   IEFixes automatically if user agent conditions are met.
+* Code specific to the Math extension was marked as deprecated.
+* mediawiki.util: mw.util.wikiGetlink has been renamed to getUrl. (The old name
+  still works, but is deprecated.)
 
 == Compatibility ==