Merge "Avoid starting transactions in getHeartbeatData()"

[lhc/web/wiklou.git] / RELEASE-NOTES-1.29

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.29 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.29
index 43f21ef..72c82de 100644 (file)
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.29
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.29
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ production.
   exceptions, largely so the API can handle them more sensibly.
 * Blocks created automatically by MediaWiki, such as for configured proxies or
   dnsbls, are now indicated as such and use a new i18n message when displayed.
+* Added new $wgHTTPImportTimeout setting. Sets timeout for
+  downloading the XML dump during a transwiki import in seconds.
 
 === External library changes in 1.29 ===
 
@@ -109,6 +111,16 @@ MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated
 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
 changes to languages because of Phabricator reports.
 
+* Based as always on linguistic studies on intelligibility and language
+  knowledge by geography, language fallbacks have been expanded. When a
+  translation is missing in the user's preferred interface language, the
+  corresponding translation for the fallback language will be used instead.
+  English will only be used as last resort when there are no translations.
+  Some configurations (such as date formats and gender namespaces) have also
+  been updated when using the fallback language's configuration was inadequate.
+  The new or reinstated language fallbacks are (after cs ↔ sk in 1.28):
+  hsb ↔ dsb, io → eo, mdf → ru, pnt → el, roa-tara → it.
+
 ==== No fallback for Ukrainian ====
 * (T39314) The fallback from Ukrainian to Russian was removed. The Ukrainian
   language will now use the default fallback language: English. When a translation
@@ -137,6 +149,14 @@ changes to languages because of Phabricator reports.
 * User::getTemporaryPassword() (deprecated in 1.27) was removed.
 * User::isPasswordReminderThrottled() (deprecated in 1.27) was removed.
 * FSRepo (deprecated in 1.19) was removed.
+* WebRequest::checkSessionCookie() (deprecated in 1.27) was removed. Use
+\MediaWiki\Session\SessionManager::singleton()->getPersistedSessionId() instead.
+* Class ImageGallery (deprecated in 1.22) was removed.
+  Use ImageGalleryBase::factory instead.
+* Title::moveNoAuth() (deprecated in 1.25) was removed. Use MovePage class instead.
+* Hook UnknownAction (deprecated in 1.19) was actually deprecated (it will now emit warnings).
+  Create a subclass of Action, and add it to $wgActions instead.
+* WikiRevision:getText() (deprecated since 1.21) is no longer marked deprecated.
 
 == Compatibility ==