Merge "Implement FauxRequest::getRequestURL() - needed for MF tests"

[lhc/web/wiklou.git] / RELEASE-NOTES-1.24

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@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ production.
 * $wgCanonicalLanguageLinks has been removed. Per Google recommendations, we
   will not send a rel=canonical pointing to a variant-neutral page, however
   we will send rel=alternate.
+* $wgResourceLoaderLESSFunctions has been deprecated and will be removed in the future.
 
 === New features in 1.24 ===
 * Added new hook WatchlistEditorBeforeFormRender, allowing subscribers to
@@ -164,7 +165,7 @@ production.
   similar way, links like [[localInterwikiPrefix:File:Image.png]] and
   [[localInterwikiPrefix:Category:Hello]] will now render as regular links, and
   will not include the file or add the page to the category.
-* New special page, MyLanguages, to redirect users to subpages with localised
+* New special page, MyLanguage, to redirect users to subpages with localised
   versions of a page. (Integrated from Extension:Translate)
 * MediaWiki now supports multiple password types, including bcrypt and PBKDF2.
   The default type can be changed with $wgPasswordDefault and the type
@@ -226,6 +227,8 @@ production.
 * (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.
+* (bug 67368) LESS mixins like .background-image() correctly flip image
+  references for RTL stylesheets now.
 
 === Action API changes in 1.24 ===
 * action=parse API now supports prop=modules, which provides the list of
@@ -269,6 +272,10 @@ production.
 * (bug 63326) Add blockedtimestamp field to output of blockinfo property for
   the list=allusers and list=users modules.
 * prop=imageinfo no longer requires iiurlwidth to be set when using iiurlparam.
+* Added prop=linkshere, prop=fileusage, and prop=transcludedin, which are
+  roughly equivalent to list=backlinks, list=imageusage, and list=embeddedin
+  but can work on a list of titles (including titles from a generator).
+* prop=redirects can now filter returned redirects by namespace.
 
 === Action API internal changes in 1.24 ===
 * Methods for handling continuation are added to ApiResult, so actions other
@@ -298,6 +305,8 @@ production.
     ApiTokensGetTokenTypes are deprecated, but are still called to support
     backwards-compatible token access.
 * ApiBase::validateLimit and ApiBase::validateTimestamp are now protected.
+* ApiQueryRedirects was removed; prop=redirects is now implemented by
+  ApiQueryBacklinksProp along with the newly-added prop modules.
 * The following methods have been deprecated and may be removed in a future
   release:
   * ApiBase::getResultProperties
@@ -341,6 +350,12 @@ production.
   * ApiFormatWddx
   * ApiFormatYaml
   * ApiTokens
+* The following class constants have been deprecated and may be removed in a
+  future release:
+  * ApiBase::PROP_ROOT
+  * ApiBase::PROP_LIST
+  * ApiBase::PROP_TYPE
+  * ApiBase::PROP_NULLABLE
 
 === Languages updated in 1.24 ===
 
@@ -480,6 +495,12 @@ changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
 * In Linker.php, link(), linkText() and makeBrokenImageLinkObj() now display
   warnings if their first parameter is not a Title object. Also makeImageLink()
   now requires a Parser as its first parameter.
+* (bug 67368) LESS functions embed() and embeddable(), added in MediaWiki 1.23
+  and broken by design, have been removed. Use appropriate LESS mixins instead.
+* Removed cssjanus.py from maintenance directory as it was unused.
+* Removed maintenance/purgeOldText.inc and the PurgeRedundantText() function
+  it contained (superseded by Maintenance::purgeRedundantText() in 1.16).
+  The purgeOldText.php maintenance script has been retained.
 
 ==== Renamed classes ====
 * CLDRPluralRuleConverter_Expression to CLDRPluralRuleConverterExpression
@@ -528,6 +549,7 @@ changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
 * RawPage - Use RawAction directly
 * StubContLang - Use Language::factory() instead
 * XMLReader2 - Use XMLReader directly
+* ResourceLoaderLESSFunctions - No longer in use, not intended for public usage
 
 == Compatibility ==