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Security reminder: If you have PHP's register_globals option set, you must
turn it off. MediaWiki will no longer work with it enabled.
+== MediaWiki 1.24.2 ==
+
+This is a security and maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.24 branch.
+
+== Changes since 1.24.1 ==
+
+* (T85848, T71210) SECURITY: Don't parse XMP blocks that contain XML entities,
+ to prevent various DoS attacks.
+* (T85848) SECURITY: Don't allow directly calling Xml::isWellFormed, to reduce
+ likelihood of DoS.
+* (T88310) SECURITY: Always expand xml entities when checking SVG's.
+* (T73394) SECURITY: Escape > in Html::expandAttributes to prevent XSS.
+* (T85855) SECURITY: Don't execute another user's CSS or JS on preview.
+* (T64685) SECURITY: Allow setting maximal password length to prevent DoS when
+ using PBKDF2.
+* (T85349, T85850, T86711) SECURITY: Multiple issues fixed in SVG filtering to
+ prevent XSS and protect viewer's privacy.
+* Fix case of SpecialAllPages/SpecialAllMessages in SpecialPageFactory to fix
+ loading these special pages when $wgAutoloadAttemptLowercase is false.
+* (bug T70087) Fix Special:ActiveUsers page for installations using
+ PostgreSQL.
+* (bug T76254) Fix deleting of pages with PostgreSQL. Requires a schema change
+ and running update.php to fix.
== MediaWiki 1.24.1 ==