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
* 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.
* 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 ==