* The precise format of metric datagrams produced by the UDP profiler and stats counter
may now be specified as $wgUDPProfilerFormatString and $wgStatsFormatString,
respectively.
+* (bug 54597) $wgBlockOpenProxies, $wgProxyPorts, $wgProxyScriptPath, and
+ $wgProxyMemcExpiry have been removed, along with the open proxy scanner
+ script they were added for.
+* Default value of $wgMaxShellMemory has been tripled (it's now 300 MB).
=== New features in 1.22 ===
* (bug 44525) mediawiki.jqueryMsg can now parse (whitelisted) HTML elements and attributes.
version of the Vector extension as this feature may conflict.
* New 'mediawiki.ui' CSS module providing mw-ui-* styles for buttons and a
compact vertical form layout.
+* HTMLForm supports a new display format 'vform' which applies this compact vertical
+ layout and button styling. Special:PasswordReset uses this format.
* New versions of login (Special:UserLogin) and create account
(Special:UserLogin/signup) forms using the "vform" compact vertical form layout.
These forms use new messages that assume a "Help logging in" link, see
* ResourceLoader supports hashes as module cache invalidation trigger (instead
of or in addition to timestamps).
* Added $wgExtensionEntryPointListFiles for use in mergeMessageFileList.php.
+* Added a hook, APIQuerySiteInfoStatisticsInfo, to allow extensions to modify
+ the output of the API query meta=siteinfo&siprop=statistics
+* Primary keys have been added to both the archive table and the externallinks
+ tables.
+* Added $wgEnableParserLimitReporting to control whether the NewPP limit report is
+ output in a HTML comment.
+* The 'UnwatchArticle' and 'WatchArticle' hooks now support a Status object
+ instead of just a boolean return value to abort the hook.
+* Added a hook, SpecialWatchlistGetNonRevisionTypes, to allow extensions
+ with custom recentchanges entries to hook into the Watchlist without
+ clobbering each other.
+* A hidden, empty input field was added to the edit form, and any edit that fills
+ it in will be rejected. This prevents against the simplest form of spambots.
+ Previously in the "SimpleAntiSpam" extension by Ryan Schmidt.
+* populateRevisionLength.php maintenance script updated to also populate
+ archive.ar_len field.
=== Bug fixes in 1.22 ===
* Disable Special:PasswordReset when $wgEnableEmail is false. Previously one
database is created.
* (bug 47191) Fixed "Column 'si_title' cannot be part of FULLTEXT index"
MySQL error when installing using the binary character set option.
+* (bug 45288) Support mysqli PHP extension
+* (bug 55818) BREAKING CHANGE: Removed undocumented 'Debug' hook in wfDebug.
+ This resolves an infinite loop when using $wgDebugFunctionEntry = true.
=== API changes in 1.22 ===
* (bug 25553) The JSON output formatter now leaves forward slashes unescaped
user blocks.
* (bug 48201) action=parse&text=foo now assumes wikitext if no title is given,
rather than using the content model of the page "API".
-* action=watch may now return errors.
+* action=watch no longer silently ignores hook abort.
* (bug 50785) action=purge with forcelinkupdate=1 no longer queues refreshLinks
jobs in the job queue for link table updates of pages that use the given page
as a template. Instead, forcerecursivelinkupdate=1 is introduced and should
* (bug 46751) Made Buryat (Russia) (буряад) (bxr) fallback to Russian.
=== Other changes in 1.22 ===
+* The rc_type field in the recentchanges table has been superseded by a new
+ rc_source field. The rc_source field is a string representation of the
+ change type where rc_type was a numeric constant. This field is not yet
+ queried but will be in a future point release of 1.22.
+** Utilize update.php to create and populate this new field. On larger wiki's
+ which do not wish to update recentchanges table in one large update please
+ review the sql and comments in maintenance/archives/patch-rc_source.sql.
+** The rc_type field of recentchanges will be deprecated in a future point
+ release.
* BREAKING CHANGE: Implementation of MediaWiki's JS and JSON value encoding
has changed:
** MediaWiki no longer supports PHP installations in which the native JSON
to the Vector skin in core.
* SpecialRecentChanges::addRecentChangesJS() function has been renamed
to addModules() and made protected.
+* Methods WatchAction::doWatch and WatchAction::doUnwatch now return a Status
+ object instead of a boolean.
+* Information boxes (CSS classes errorbox, warningbox, successbox) have been
+ made more subtle.
+* BREAKING CHANGE: The module 'mediawiki.legacy.IEFixes' has been removed as it was
+ unused. The file skins/common/IEFixes.js remains but is only used by wikibits.
+ The file never contained any re-usable components. To use it in a skin, load
+ 'mediawiki.legacy.wikibits' (which IEFixes depends on) and that will import
+ IEFixes automatically if user agent conditions are met.
== Compatibility ==