Revert "Revert "Add new recentchanges field rc_source to replace rc_type""

[lhc/web/wiklou.git] / RELEASE-NOTES-1.22

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.22 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.22
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@@ -412,6 +412,15 @@ 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+* The rc_type field in the recentchanges table has been superseded by a new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