the "Signature" button on the edit toolbar will be displayed.
* $wgResourceLoaderUseESI was deprecated and removed. This was an experimental
feature that was never enabled by default.
+* $wgResourceLoaderExperimentalAsyncLoading was deprecated and removed.
+ This experimental feature was never enabled by default and is obsolete as of
+ MediaWiki 1.26, in where ResourceLoader became fully asynchronous.
=== New features in 1.26 ===
* (T51506) Now action=info gives estimates of actual watchers for a page.
the store type from $wgObjectCaches. The default is the local database.
* Interface message overrides in the MediaWiki namespace will now be cached in
memcached and APC (if available), rather than memcached and local files.
+* Added a new hook, 'RandomPageQuery', to allow modification of the query used
+ by Special:Random to select random pages.
+* $wgTransactionalTimeLimit was added, which controls the request time limit
+ for potentially slow POST requests that need to be as atomic as possible.
+* ResourceLoader now loads all scripts asynchronously. The top-queue and
+ startup modules are no longer synchronously loaded.
==== External libraries ====
* Update es5-shim from v4.0.0 to v4.1.5.
=== Bug fixes in 1.26 ===
* (T53283) load.php sometimes sends 304 response without full headers
* (T65198) Talk page tabs now have a "rel=discussion" attribute
+* (T98841) {{msgnw:}} now preserves comments even when subst: is not used.
=== Action API changes in 1.26 ===
* New-style continuation is now the default for action=continue. Clients may
changes to languages because of Phabricator reports.
* Languages added:
+** ase (American sign language), thanks to translator Icemandeaf
** dty (डोटेली/Doteli), thanks to translators जनक राज भट्ट, बिप्लब आनन्द,
मेश सिंह बोहरा, and राम प्रसाद जोशी
** luz (لئری دوٙمینی / Southern Luri)
* BREAKING CHANGE: mediawiki.legacy.ajax has been removed, following
a lengthy deprecation period.
* The ScopedPHPTimeout class was removed.
+* Removed maintenance script fixSlaveDesync.php.
== Compatibility ==