I wrote on Feb 2, 2015:
After upgrading to MW 1.24.1 (from 1.21), Special:NewPages now displays zero results....
No responses from mediawiki-l, so I assume this is an unknown issue and filed it as a bug report: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88593
DanB
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