* $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.
* $wgCanonicalLanguageLinks has been removed. Per Google recommendations, we
will not send a rel=canonical pointing to a variant-neutral page, however
we will send rel=alternate.
+* $wgResourceLoaderLESSFunctions has been deprecated and will be removed in the future.
=== New features in 1.24 ===
* Added new hook WatchlistEditorBeforeFormRender, allowing subscribers to
similar way, links like [[localInterwikiPrefix:File:Image.png]] and
[[localInterwikiPrefix:Category:Hello]] will now render as regular links, and
will not include the file or add the page to the category.
-* New special page, MyLanguages, to redirect users to subpages with localised
+* New special page, MyLanguage, to redirect users to subpages with localised
versions of a page. (Integrated from Extension:Translate)
* MediaWiki now supports multiple password types, including bcrypt and PBKDF2.
The default type can be changed with $wgPasswordDefault and the type
* (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".
* Added HTMLAutoCompleteSelectField.
* Added a new hook, "SkinPreloadExistence", to allow extensions to add titles to
link existence cache before the page is rendered.
+* Config::set() was moved to its own interface, MutableConfig. GlobalVarConfig::set()
+ is now deprecated, does not implement MutableConfig.
+* A MutableConfig named HashConfig was added, that stores an array of configuration
+ settings.
+* (bug 69418) A MultiConfig implementation was added that supports fallback
+ to multiple Config instances.
=== Bug fixes in 1.24 ===
* (bug 50572) MediaWiki:Blockip should support gender
* (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.
+* (bug 67368) LESS mixins like .background-image() correctly flip image
+ references for RTL stylesheets now.
=== Action API changes in 1.24 ===
* action=parse API now supports prop=modules, which provides the list of
parameter for each module is documented in the action=help output and is
returned from action=paraminfo.
* 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.
+* prop=imageinfo no longer requires iiurlwidth to be set when using iiurlparam.
+* Added prop=linkshere, prop=fileusage, and prop=transcludedin, which are
+ roughly equivalent to list=backlinks, list=imageusage, and list=embeddedin
+ but can work on a list of titles (including titles from a generator).
+* prop=redirects can now filter returned redirects by namespace.
=== Action API internal changes in 1.24 ===
* Methods for handling continuation are added to ApiResult, so actions other
ApiTokensGetTokenTypes are deprecated, but are still called to support
backwards-compatible token access.
* ApiBase::validateLimit and ApiBase::validateTimestamp are now protected.
+* ApiQueryRedirects was removed; prop=redirects is now implemented by
+ ApiQueryBacklinksProp along with the newly-added prop modules.
* The following methods have been deprecated and may be removed in a future
release:
* ApiBase::getResultProperties
setPreloadedText() from EditPage.php. (deprecated since 1.21)
* Removed global functions wfArrayLookup(), wfArrayMerge(), wfDebugDieBacktrace()
and wfTime(). (deprecated since 1.22)
-* Browser support for Internet Explorer 6 lowered from Grade A to Grade C,
- meaning that JavaScript is no longer executed in this browser.
+* Browser support for Internet Explorer 6 and 7 lowered from Grade A to Grade C,
+ 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()
* Some extensions had their ResourceLoader modules depend on the "mediawiki"
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.
+* (bug 67368) LESS functions embed() and embeddable(), added in MediaWiki 1.23
+ and broken by design, have been removed. Use appropriate LESS mixins instead.
+* Removed cssjanus.py from maintenance directory as it was unused.
+* Removed maintenance/purgeOldText.inc and the PurgeRedundantText() function
+ it contained (superseded by Maintenance::purgeRedundantText() in 1.16).
+ The purgeOldText.php maintenance script has been retained.
==== Renamed classes ====
* CLDRPluralRuleConverter_Expression to CLDRPluralRuleConverterExpression
* RawPage - Use RawAction directly
* StubContLang - Use Language::factory() instead
* XMLReader2 - Use XMLReader directly
+* ResourceLoaderLESSFunctions - No longer in use, not intended for public usage
== 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
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