2010/10/23 Roan Kattouw <roan.kattouw(a)gmail.com>:
> As of r75274, patrol tokens accepted by action=patrol and generated by
> list=recentchanges are no longer equal to edit tokens and are no
> longer the same within a session. Instead, they are now different for
> every recentchanges row (i.e. they depend on the rcid).
>
> It may take a while for this change to be deployed to the Wikimedia
> cluster, but in the meantime changing your clients to no longer depend
> on the patrol token to stay the same can't hurt.
>
This has changed again in r78141. Patrol tokens no longer depend on
rcid; instead, they are the same throughout the session (like the edit
token is), but NOT equal to the edit token. Also,
api.php?action=patrol now only accepts POST requests.
The changes in r75274 were never part of any release and were never
deployed to Wikimedia wikis.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)