auto-creation when 'createaccount' is not granted to all users.
* Deprecated AuthPluginAutoCreate hook in favor of LocalUserCreated.
* Most cookie-handling methods in User are deprecated.
+* $wgAllowAsyncCopyUploads and $CopyUploadAsyncTimeout were removed. This was an
+ experimental feature that has never worked.
=== New features in 1.27 ===
* $wgDataCenterId and $wgDataCenterRoles where added, which will serve as
$wgMWOAuthGrantPermissionGroups.
* Added MWRestrictions as a class to check restrictions on a WebRequest, e.g.
to assert that the request comes from a particular IP range.
+* Added bot passwords, a rights-restricted login mechanism for API-using bots.
=== External library changes in 1.27 ===
* The following response properties from action=login are deprecated, and may
be removed in the future: lgtoken, cookieprefix, sessionid. Clients should
handle cookies to properly manage session state.
+* action=login transparently allows login using bot passwords. Clients should
+ merely need to change the username and password used after setting up a bot
+ password.
+* action=upload no longer understands statuskey, asyncdownload or leavemessage.
=== Action API internal changes in 1.27 ===
* ApiQueryORM removed.
* LanguageConverter::armourMath() was removed (deprecated since 1.22).
* FakeConverter::armourMath() was removed (deprecated since 1.22).
* The unused jquery.validate ResourceLoader module was removed.
+* FileRepo::getRootUrl() was removed (deprecated since 1.20).
+* User::generateToken() was removed (deprecated since 1.20).
+* WikiPage::getRawText() was removed (deprecated since 1.21).
+* ParserOutput::hasCustomDataUpdates() was removed (deprecated since 1.25).
+* ParserOutput::addSecondaryDataUpdate() was removed (deprecated since 1.25).
+* ParserOutput::getSecondaryDataUpdates() was removed (deprecated since 1.25).
+* Gallery images with multiple caption pipes no longer concatenate them all
+ together but instead pick the final one, similar to image syntax.
+* XML-like parser tags (such as <gallery>), when unclosed, will be left unparsed
+ rather than consume everything until the end of the page.
== Compatibility ==
MediaWiki 1.27 requires PHP 5.3.3 or later. There is experimental support for
-HHVM 3.3.0.
+HHVM 3.6.5 or later.
MySQL is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used, but
support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for