Merge "Allow Linker::formatComment to link to another wiki per default."

[lhc/web/wiklou.git] / RELEASE-NOTES-1.26

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.26 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.26
index 3009158..4463c78 100644 (file)
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+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.26
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ production.
   MediaWiki 1.26, in where ResourceLoader became fully asynchronous.
 * $wgMasterWaitTimeout was removed (deprecated in 1.24).
 * Fields in ParserOptions are now private. Use the accessors instead.
+* Custom LESS functions (defined via $wgResourceLoaderLESSFunctions)
+  have been removed, after being deprecated in 1.24.
+* $wgAlwaysUseTidy has been removed.
 
 === New features in 1.26 ===
 * (T51506) Now action=info gives estimates of actual watchers for a page.
@@ -66,6 +69,10 @@ production.
   for potentially slow POST requests that need to be as atomic as possible.
 * ResourceLoader now loads all scripts asynchronously. The top-queue and
   startup modules are no longer synchronously loaded.
+* 'mediawiki.ui.button' styles are no longer unconditionally loaded on every
+  page. During the deprecation period, the styles will only be loaded on pages
+  which contain 'mw-ui-button' in their HTML. Starting in 1.28, the styles will
+  only be loaded if explicitly required.
 
 ==== External libraries ====
 * Update es5-shim from v4.0.0 to v4.1.5.
@@ -79,6 +86,8 @@ production.
 * (T53283) load.php sometimes sends 304 response without full headers
 * (T65198) Talk page tabs now have a "rel=discussion" attribute
 * (T98841) {{msgnw:}} now preserves comments even when subst: is not used.
+* (T104142) $wgEmergencyContact and $wgPasswordSender now use their default
+  value if set to an empty string.
 
 === Action API changes in 1.26 ===
 * New-style continuation is now the default for action=continue. Clients may
@@ -97,10 +106,22 @@ production.
   sometimes being numerically-indexed objects with formatversion=2.
 * When errors about users being blocked are returned, they now include
   information about the relevant block.
+* (T99926) list=random has higher limits, in line with other API modules.
+* list=random's rnredirect parameter is deprecated in favor of a new
+  rnfilterredir parameter that also allows for listing both redirects and
+  non-redirects.
+* list=random now supports continuation.
+* API responses to GET requests may now include ETag and Last-Modified headers,
+  and will honor corresponding If-None-Match and If-Modified-Since on such
+  requests.
 
 === Action API internal changes in 1.26 ===
 * New metadata item ApiResult::META_KVP_MERGE to allow for merging the KVP key
   into the value when the value is an assoc.
+* API action modules may now provide values for the RFC 7232 ETag and
+  Last-Modified headers. The API will check these against If-None-Match and
+  If-Modified-Since request headers on GET requests and avoid executing the
+  module when appropriate.
 
 === Languages updated in 1.26 ===
 
@@ -163,6 +184,9 @@ changes to languages because of Phabricator reports.
   a lengthy deprecation period.
 * The ScopedPHPTimeout class was removed.
 * Removed maintenance script fixSlaveDesync.php.
+* Watchlist tokens, SpecialResetTokens, and User::getTokenFromOption()
+  are deprecated. Applications using those can work via the OAuth
+  extension instead. New tokens types should not be added.
 
 == Compatibility ==