Merge "Remove Fallback::iconv()"

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

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.24 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.24
index c077156..f227e29 100644 (file)
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.24
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.24
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ production.
 * MediaWiki will no longer run if register_globals is enabled. It has been
   deprecated for 5 years now, and was removed in PHP 5.4. For more information
   about why, see <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/register_globals>.
+* MediaWiki now requires PHP's iconv extension. openSUSE users may need to
+  install the php5-iconv package. Users of other systems may need to add
+  extension=iconv.so to php.ini or recompile PHP without --without-iconv.
 * The server's canonical hostname is available as $wgServerName, which is
   exposed in both mw.config and ApiQuerySiteInfo.
 * Introduced $wgPagePropsHaveSortkey as a backwards-compatibility switch,