Update jQuery Cookie to v1.3.1

[lhc/web/wiklou.git] / RELEASE-NOTES-1.24

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.24 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.24
index 89348ea..647296c 100644 (file)
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@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ production.
 * MediaWiki will no longer run if register_globals is enabled. It has been
   deprecated for 5 years now, and was removed in PHP 5.4. For more information
   about why, see <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/register_globals>.
+* MediaWiki now requires PHP's iconv extension. openSUSE users may need to
+  install the php5-iconv package. Users of other systems may need to add
+  extension=iconv.so to php.ini or recompile PHP without --without-iconv.
+* MediaWiki will no longer function if magic quotes are enabled. It has
+  been deprecated for 5 years now, and was removed in PHP 5.4.
 * The server's canonical hostname is available as $wgServerName, which is
   exposed in both mw.config and ApiQuerySiteInfo.
 * Introduced $wgPagePropsHaveSortkey as a backwards-compatibility switch,
@@ -115,11 +120,19 @@ production.
 * (bug 67042) Added support for the HTML5 <rtc> tag for East Asian typography.
 * Upgrade Sinon.JS to 1.10.3.
 * Added the es5-shim polyfill for older or non-compliant javascript engines.
-* Upgrade jQuery Cookie to v1.2.0.
+* Upgrade jQuery Cookie to v1.3.1.
 * (bug 20476) Add a "viewsuppressed" user right to be able to view
   suppressed content but not suppress it ("suppressrevision" right).
 * Added a new hook, "OutputPageScriptsForBottomQueue", to add modules to the
   bottom queue that should be requested in a dedicated <script> request.
+* (bug 66440) The MediaWiki web installer will now allow you to choose the skins
+  to enable (from the ones included in download tarball) and decide which one
+  should be the default.
+* (bug 68085) Links of the form [[localInterwikiPrefix:languageCode:pageTitle]],
+  where localInterwikiPrefix is a member of the $wgLocalInterwikis array, will
+  no longer be displayed in the sidebar when $wgInterwikiMagic is true.
+* New special page, MyLanguages, to redirect users to subpages with localised
+  versions of a page. (Integrated from Extension:Translate)
 
 === Bug fixes in 1.24 ===
 * (bug 49116) Footer copyright notice is now always displayed in user language
@@ -146,6 +159,9 @@ production.
 * (bug 65757) MSSQL: Update script drops unnamed constraints to be prepared
   for future updates. Because it's doing so heuristically, it may fail or drop
   wrong constraints.
+* (bug 67870) wfShellExec() cuts off stdout at multiples of 8192 bytes.
+* $wgRunJobsAsync now works with private wikis (e.g. read requires login).
+* (bugs 57238, 65206) Blank pages can now be directly created.
 
 === Web API changes in 1.24 ===
 * action=parse API now supports prop=modules, which provides the list of
@@ -256,6 +272,9 @@ changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
 * Removed global function wfViewPrevNext(). (deprecated since 1.19)
 * Removed global function xmlsafe() from Export.php. (moved to OAIRepo extension)
 * Removed Title::userCanRead(). (deprecated since 1.19)
+* Removed maintenance script importTextFile.php. Use edit.php script instead.
+* A _from_namespace field has been added to the templatelinks, pagelinks,
+  and filelinks tables. Run update.php to apply this change to the schema.
 
 ==== Renamed classes ====
 * CLDRPluralRuleConverter_Expression to CLDRPluralRuleConverterExpression
@@ -301,6 +320,9 @@ changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
 * FormatExif - Use FormatMetadata directly
 * RevertFileAction - Use RevertAction directly
 * HistoryPage - Use HistoryAction directly
+* RawPage - Use RawAction directly
+* StubContLang - Use Language::factory() instead
+* XMLReader2 - Use XMLReader directly
 
 == Compatibility ==