* $wgCompiledFiles has been removed.
* $wgSortSpecialPages was removed, the listing on Special:SpecialPages is
now always sorted.
+* $wgSpecialPages may now use callback functions as an alternative to plain class names.
+ This allows more control over constructor parameters.
* $wgHTCPMulticastAddress, $wgHTCPMulticastRouting and $wgHTCPPort were removed.
* $wgRC2UDPAddress, $wgRC2UDPInterwikiPrefix, $wgRC2UDPOmitBots, $wgRC2UDPPort
and $wgRC2UDPPrefix have been removed.
* (bug 15484) Users will now be redirected to the login page when they need to
log in, rather than being shown a page asking them to log in and having to click
another link to actually get to the login page.
-* A JSONContent and JSONContentHandler were added for extensions to extend.
+* A JsonContent and JsonContentHandler were added for extensions to extend.
* (bug 35045) Redirects to sections will now update the URL in browser's address
bar using the HTML5 History API. When [[Dog]] redirects to [[Animals#Dog]],
the user will now see "Animals#Dog" in their browser instead of "Dog#Dog".
* (bug 69789) Title::getContentModel() now loads from the database when
necessary instead of incorrectly returning the default content model.
* (bug 69249) wfBaseConvert() now works around PHP Bug #50175 when using GMP.
+* (bug 57909) URLs in the externallinks table will no longer have certain
+ characters decoded in the query string.
=== Action API changes in 1.24 ===
* action=parse API now supports prop=modules, which provides the list of
* New action ClearHasMsg that can be used to clear HasMsg flag.
* The cmstartsortkey and cmendsortkey parameters to list=categorymembers are
deprecated in favor of cmstarthexsortkey and cmendhexsortkey.
+* (bug 63326) Add blockedtimestamp field to output of blockinfo property for
+ the list=allusers and list=users modules.
=== Action API internal changes in 1.24 ===
* Methods for handling continuation are added to ApiResult, so actions other
meaning that JavaScript is no longer executed in these browser versions.
* Browser support for Opera 11 lowered from Grade A to Grade C.
* Removed IEFixes module which existed purely to provide support for MSIE versions
+* Deprecated SpecialPageFactory::getList() in favor of
+ SpecialPageFactory::getNames()
below 7 (conditionally loaded only for those browsers).
* Action::checkCanExecute() no longer has a return value.
* Removed cleanupForIRC(), loadFromCurRow(), newFromCurRow(), notifyRC2UDP()
and "jquery" modules. In the past, this behavior was undefined, now it will
throw an error.
* Removed BagOStuff::replace(). (deprecated since 1.23)
+* In Linker.php, link(), linkText() and makeBrokenImageLinkObj() now display
+ warnings if their first parameter is not a Title object. Also makeImageLink()
+ now requires a Parser as its first parameter.
==== Renamed classes ====
* CLDRPluralRuleConverter_Expression to CLDRPluralRuleConverterExpression
== Compatibility ==
-MediaWiki 1.24 requires PHP 5.3.2 or later.
+MediaWiki 1.24 requires PHP 5.3.2 or later. There is experimental support for
+HHVM 3.3.0.
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