Officially deprecate skin autodiscovery

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

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.24 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.24
index b15ef6d..d67ceb5 100644 (file)
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.24
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.24
@@ -135,6 +135,9 @@ changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
 * (bug 63891) Add 'X-Robots-Tag: noindex' header in action=render pages.
 * SpecialPage no longer supports the syntax for invoking wfSpecial*() functions.
   All special pages should subclass SpecialPage and implement the execute() method.
+* The skin autodiscovery mechanism has been deprecated and will be removed in
+  MediaWiki 1.25. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skin_autodiscovery
+  for migration guide for creators and users of custom skins that relied on it.
 
 ==== Renamed classes ====
 * CLDRPluralRuleConverter_Expression to CLDRPluralRuleConverterExpression