Merge "Remove "probably you" from password reset email information"

[lhc/web/wiklou.git] / RELEASE-NOTES-1.31

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.31 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.31
index 7b2ece9..029eea5 100644 (file)
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.31
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.31
@@ -31,8 +31,11 @@ production.
 * (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 ….css pages are, so that configuration options can safely be placed there.
 * Wikimedia\Rdbms\IDatabase->select() and similar methods now support
   joins with parentheses for grouping.
 * As a first pass in standardizing dialog boxes across the MediaWiki product,
@@ -66,6 +69,16 @@ production.
     the SQL query. The ActorMigration class may also be used to get feature-flagged
     information needed to access actor-related fields during the migration
     period.
+* Added Wikimedia\Rdbms\IDatabase::cancelAtomic(), to roll back an atomic
+  section without having to roll back the whole transaction.
+* Wikimedia\Rdbms\IDatabase::doAtomicSection(), non-native ::insertSelect(),
+  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 ===
 
@@ -195,8 +208,8 @@ changes to languages because of Phabricator reports.
   * 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()
@@ -280,6 +293,10 @@ changes to languages because of Phabricator reports.
   * ::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()
@@ -287,12 +304,34 @@ changes to languages because of Phabricator reports.
   * Parser::isValidHalfParsedText()
   * StripState::getSubState()
   * StripState::merge()
-* The "free" class is now only applied to unbracketed URLs in wikitext. Links
+* The "free" CSS class is now only applied to unbracketed URLs in wikitext. Links
   written using square brackets will get the class "text" not "free".
+* SpecialPageFactory::getList(), deprecated in 1.24, has been removed. You can
+  use ::getNames() instead.
 * OpenSearch::getOpenSearchTemplate(), deprecated in 1.25, has been removed. You
   can use ApiOpenSearch::getOpenSearchTemplate() instead.
 * The global function wfBaseConvert, deprecated in 1.27, has been removed. Use
   Wikimedia\base_convert() directly.
+* RFC 157418: Whitespace is trimmed from wikitext headings, wikitext list items,
+  wikitext table captions, wikitext table headings, wikitext table cells. HTML
+  headings, HTML list items, HTML table captions, HTML table headings, HTML table cells
+  will not have this trimming behavior.
+* Calling Database::begin() explicitly during an implicit transaction or when DBO_TRX
+  is set results in an exception. Calling Database::commit() explicitly for an implicit
+  transaction also results in an exception. Previously these were logged as errors.
+  The startAtomic() and endAtomic() methods, or AtomicSectionUpdate should be used
+  instead.
+* The global function wfOutputHandler() was removed, use the its replacement
+  MediaWiki\OutputHandler::handle() instead. The global function was only sometimes defined.
+  Its replacement is always available via the autoloader.
+* ChangeTags::listExtensionActivatedTags and ::listExtensionDefinedTags, deprecated
+  in 1.28, have been removed.  Use ::listSoftwareActivatedTags() and
+  ::listSoftwareDefinedTags() instead.
+* Title::getTitleInvalidRegex(), deprecated in 1.25, has been removed. You
+  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,
@@ -305,7 +344,7 @@ Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
 The supported versions are:
 
 * MySQL 5.0.3 or later
-* PostgreSQL 8.3 or later
+* PostgreSQL 9.2 or later
 * SQLite 3.3.7 or later
 * Oracle 9.0.1 or later
 * Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (9.00.1399)