* (T188472) The 'comma' value for $wgArticleCountMethod is no longer supported for
performance reasons, and installations with this setting will now work as if it
was configured with 'any'.
+* $wgLogAutopatrol now defaults to false instead of true.
=== New features in 1.31 ===
* (T76554) User sub-pages named ….json are now protected in the same way that ….js
and non-MySQL ::replace() and ::upsert() no longer roll back the whole
transaction on failure.
* (T189785) Added a monthly heartbeat ping to the pingback feature.
+* The CLI installer (maintenance/install.php) learned to detect and include
+ extensions. Pass --with-extensions to enable that feature.
+* (T184791) rc_patrolled now has three states: "0" for unpatrolled,
+ "1" for manually patrolled and "2" for autopatrolled actions.
=== External library changes in 1.31 ===
* OutputPage::enableSectionEditLinks()
* OutputPage::sectionEditLinksEnabled()
* The public ParserOutput state fields $mTOCEnabled and $mEditSectionTokens are also deprecated.
-* The following methods and constants from the WatchedItem class were deprecated in
- 1.27 have been removed.
+* The following methods and constants from the WatchedItem class, which were deprecated in
+ 1.27, have been removed.
* WatchedItem::getTitle()
* WatchedItem::fromUserTitle()
* WatchedItem::addWatch()
* ::clearCookie()
* ::setExtendedLoginCookie()
Note that User::setCookies() remains, and is not deprecated.
+* Also in User, some auth-related methods which were deprecated in 1.27, have been removed:
+ * ::getEditTokenTimestamp() – use MediaWiki\Session\Token::getTimestamp()
+ * ::getPasswordFactory() – create a PasswordFactory directly
+ * ::passwordChangeInputAttribs()
* The global functions wfProfileIn and wfProfileOut, deprecated in 1.25, have been removed.
* The following methods related to caching of half-parsed HTML were deprecated:
* Parser::serializeHalfParsedText()
can use MediaWikiTitleCodec::getTitleInvalidRegex() instead.
* HTMLForm & VFormHTMLForm::isVForm(), deprecated in 1.25, have been removed.
* The ProfileSection class, deprecated in 1.25 and unused, has been removed.
+* Wikimedia\Rdbms\SavepointPostgres is deprecated.
== Compatibility ==
MediaWiki 1.31 requires PHP 5.5.9 or later. Although HHVM 3.18.5 or later is supported,