Merge "Check validity and availability of usernames during signup via AJAX"

[lhc/web/wiklou.git] / RELEASE-NOTES-1.23

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.23 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.23
index 8d967f5..4f4d414 100644 (file)
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.23
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.23
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ production.
 * $wgSkipSkin, which has been replaceable by $wgSkipSkins since 2005 (r9249), is
   now formally deprecated.
 * Removed deprecated $wgDisabledActions as it is hardly used anywhere.
+* $wgRateLimitLog has been deprecated and replaced by
+  $wgDebugLogGroup['ratelimit'].
 
 === New features in 1.23 ===
 * ResourceLoader can utilize the Web Storage API to cache modules client-side.
@@ -114,6 +116,10 @@ production.
   whether to send a watchlist email notification.
 * (bug 42026) Special:Contributions now includes an option to filter page
   creations, similar to the topOnly option.
+* Add mediawiki.ui.button styling to all pages so wiki content can use styled
+  buttons.
+* Special:UserLogin/signup now does AJAX checks for invalid and taken usernames,
+  displaying the error live.
 
 === Bug fixes in 1.23 ===
 * (bug 41759) The "updated since last visit" markers (on history pages, recent
@@ -154,6 +160,8 @@ production.
 * (bug 26811) When a DBUnexpectedError occurs, DB server hostnames are now
   hidden unless $wgShowExceptionDetails is true, and $wgShowDBErrorBacktrace
   no longer applies in such cases.
+* (bug 60960) Avoid doing file_exist() checks on data: URIs, as they cause
+  warnings to be printed on Windows due to large path length.
 
 === Web API changes in 1.23 ===
 * (bug 54884) action=parse&prop=categories now indicates hidden and missing
@@ -268,6 +276,11 @@ changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
 * The jquery.delayedBind ResourceLoader module was deprecated in favor of the
   jquery.throttle-debounce module. It will be removed in MediaWiki 1.24.
 * mw.user.bucket has been deprecated.
+* On Special:PrefixIndex, a table#mw-prefixindex-list-table was changed to
+  table.mw-prefixindex-list-table to avoid duplicate ids when the special page
+  is transcluded.
+* (bug 62198) window.$j has been deprecated.
+* Preference "Disable link title conversion" was removed.
 
 ==== Removed classes ====
 * FakeMemCachedClient (deprecated in 1.18)