* (bug 15484) Users will now be redirected to the login page when they need to
log in, rather than being shown a page asking them to log in and having to click
another link to actually get to the login page.
-* A JSONContent and JSONContentHandler were added for extensions to extend.
+* A JsonContent and JsonContentHandler were added for extensions to extend.
* (bug 35045) Redirects to sections will now update the URL in browser's address
bar using the HTML5 History API. When [[Dog]] redirects to [[Animals#Dog]],
the user will now see "Animals#Dog" in their browser instead of "Dog#Dog".
* (bug 69789) Title::getContentModel() now loads from the database when
necessary instead of incorrectly returning the default content model.
* (bug 69249) wfBaseConvert() now works around PHP Bug #50175 when using GMP.
+* (bug 57909) URLs in the externallinks table will no longer have certain
+ characters decoded in the query string.
=== Action API changes in 1.24 ===
* action=parse API now supports prop=modules, which provides the list of
parameter for each module is documented in the action=help output and is
returned from action=paraminfo.
* New action ClearHasMsg that can be used to clear HasMsg flag.
+* The cmstartsortkey and cmendsortkey parameters to list=categorymembers are
+ deprecated in favor of cmstarthexsortkey and cmendhexsortkey.
+* (bug 63326) Add blockedtimestamp field to output of blockinfo property for
+ the list=allusers and list=users modules.
=== Action API internal changes in 1.24 ===
* Methods for handling continuation are added to ApiResult, so actions other
setPreloadedText() from EditPage.php. (deprecated since 1.21)
* Removed global functions wfArrayLookup(), wfArrayMerge(), wfDebugDieBacktrace()
and wfTime(). (deprecated since 1.22)
-* Browser support for Internet Explorer 6 lowered from Grade A to Grade C,
- meaning that JavaScript is no longer executed in this browser.
+* Browser support for Internet Explorer 6 and 7 lowered from Grade A to Grade C,
+ meaning that JavaScript is no longer executed in these browser versions.
* Browser support for Opera 11 lowered from Grade A to Grade C.
* Removed IEFixes module which existed purely to provide support for MSIE versions
below 7 (conditionally loaded only for those browsers).
* Some extensions had their ResourceLoader modules depend on the "mediawiki"
and "jquery" modules. In the past, this behavior was undefined, now it will
throw an error.
+* Removed BagOStuff::replace(). (deprecated since 1.23)
==== Renamed classes ====
* CLDRPluralRuleConverter_Expression to CLDRPluralRuleConverterExpression