Wikidata deployment

Changes

 * Quantities with units! :)
 * Special pages converted to use OOUI
 * Special:NewItem
 * Special:NewProperty
 * Special:MergeItems
 * Special:RedirectEntity
 * New special page in clients: SpecialPagesWithBadges
 * Improvements to the mobile UI
 * Breaking api changes (for xml format) wikidata:User:Addshore/API_Break_September_2015
 * Check URIs in data values against vocabulary base URI T111171
 * Add formatterURL to the wb_property_info table T95285
 * Introduce entityAccessLimit setting (for number of full entities that can be loaded on a client page, such as with lua); default is 400.

Bug fixes

 * No longer can create a redirect from one entity to another redirect, using Special:RedirectEntity T111342

Changes

 * Default badges added for Wikisource for display next to the "other languages" interwiki links in the sidebar T97014

Bug fixes

 * Performance improvements for usage tracking.

Changes

 * Introduced WikibaseDataModelServices component (consists of stuff moved mainly from DataModel and Wikibase Lib)
 * Removed spinner from entity view during page load. T108365
 * Making edit warning red and not autohide. T91955
 * Entity selector display alias in brackets behind label, instead of beneath label and description. T104553

Bug fixes

 * Changed background color of input fields when they are focused to blue. T92447
 * Fixed issue with property background remaining blue after removing statement. T93810

Changes

 * Api result output always includes 'qualifiers' and 'qualifiers-order'.

Deployment notes

 * bump cache epoch or parser cache key (due to changes in site links dom)

Changes

 * Special:UnconnectedPages doesn't support prefix searching and interwiki-only pages anymore
 * Machine readable versions (in various formats) of Wikibase entities will be advertised in their page heads as alternate link. Be aware that static html pages served from varnish will not update immediately. (T96298)
 * Switch from DataModel 2.x to 3.x (217885), causes small breaking API change.
 * Small breaking DOM change: Wikibase no longer adds its own  but uses MediaWiki's default .firstHeading element. (T93534)
 * Small breaking DOM change: Add heading before sitelinks section (203874)
 * Property aliases are now unique and conflicts lead to properties not being editable anymore (217238)

Deployment notes

 * 203681 bumps the parser cache epoch for entities.

Changes

 * Adjust time formatter heuristics for calendar display. 75272
 * Include incoming redirects in RDF output of Special:EntityData T69033 and RDF dumps T93767

Changes

 * Improvements in handling of time values. T87574 T96137
 * New special page to list properties by data type. T55618
 * Drop redundant sitelinks / attempt to resolve site link conflicts when merging items. T85347
 * Add redirect info to wbgetentities api result. T88902

Bug fixes

 * Fix parsing of quantities with scientific notation. T67436

Changes

 * Add a from=… parameter to for arbitrary access in clients. (for wikis that already have arbitrary access enabled) T70029
 * Wikibase now ignores capitalization for label and description conflicts. T73785
 * Consider number of labels (in addition to number of site links) in entity suggester sorting of suggestions. T94404

Bug fixes

 * Fix term box when invalid language code in babel is set T94835
 * Show correct label in copyright message on special pages T50983, T68499
 * Fix "other languages" box displaying an older revision T90893

Older branches

 * /1.25
 * /1.24
 * /1.23