* Added a new hook, 'UploadVerifyUpload', which can be used to reject a file
upload. Unlike 'UploadVerifyFile' it provides information about upload comment
and the file description page, but does not run for uploads to stash.
+* (T141604) Extensions can now provide a better error message when their
+ maintenance scripts are run without the extension being installed.
+* (T8948) Numeric sorting in categories is now supported by setting $wgCategoryCollation
+ to uca-default-u-kn or uca-<langcode>-u-kn. If migrating from another
+ collation, you will need to run the updateCollation.php maintenance script.
=== External library changes in 1.28 ===
the value of $wgMaxArticleSize.
* Property 'modulemessages' from action=parse&prop=modules was removed
(deprecated since 1.26).
+* The following response properties from action=login, deprecated in 1.27, are
+ now removed: lgtoken, cookieprefix, sessionid. Clients should handle cookies
+ to properly manage session state.
=== Action API internal changes in 1.28 ===
* Added a new hook, 'ApiMakeParserOptions', to allow extensions to better
BASAbali, M. Adiputra, Naval Scene, Nemo bis, NoiX180, and 아라.
* (T135867) shn (Shan), thanks to translators Khun Sar, Piangpha,
Saiddzone Saimawnkham, Saosukham, and Sengwan.
+* Czech (cs) and Slovak (sk) set as reciprocal fallbacks
=== Other changes in 1.28 ===
* (T128697) Improved handling of large diffs.
MediaWiki\Linker\LinkRenderer. In addition, the LinkBegin and LinkEnd hooks
were replaced by HtmlPageLinkRendererBegin and HtmlPageLinkRendererEnd
respectively. See docs/hooks.txt for the specific changes needed for those hooks.
+* Aliases for Linker methods, deprecated since 1.21, were removed from Skin:
+ * Skin::commentBlock() (use Linker::commentBlock() instead)
+ * Skin::generateRollback() (use Linker::generateRollback() instead)
+ * Skin::link() (use MediaWiki\Linker\LinkRenderer instead)
+ * Skin::linkKnown() (use MediaWiki\Linker\LinkRenderer instead)
+ * Skin::userLink() (use Linker::userLink() instead)
+ * Skin::userToolLinks() (use Linker::userToolLinks() instead)
* The 'ParserLimitReportFormat' hook was removed.
* Disabled "bug 2702" HTML tidying of parsed UI messages on wikis where Tidy is
disabled.
+* DifferenceEngine::generateDiffBody() was removed (deprecated since 1.21).
+* UploadBase::stashFileGetKey() and UploadBase::stashSession() were deprecated.
+ Use ...->stashFile()->getFileKey() instead.
+* "Public domain" was removed as a wiki license option from the installer, in
+ favour of CC-0.
== Compatibility ==
MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except
for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain):
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
+ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Documentation
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