Drop archive.ar_text and ar_flags

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

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.31 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.31
index cd0fd4c..61f647d 100644 (file)
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.31
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.31
@@ -5,6 +5,14 @@ THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
 MediaWiki 1.31 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in
 production.
 
+=== Important pre-upgrade notes for 1.31 ===
+* If you're using MySQL, SQLite, or MSSQL, are not using update.php to apply
+  schema changes, and cannot have downtime to run migrateArchiveText.php and
+  apply patch-drop-ar_text.sql manually, you'll have to apply a default value
+  to the ar_text and ar_flags columns of the archive table or make those
+  columns nullable before upgrading to MediaWiki 1.31.
+  maintenance/archives/patch-nullable-ar_text.sql shows how to do this for MySQL.
+
 === Configuration changes in 1.31 ===
 * $wgEnableAPI and $wgEnableWriteAPI are now deprecated and will be removed in
   a future version. The API is now considered to be stable, secure and
@@ -33,6 +41,8 @@ production.
   was configured with 'any'.
 
 === 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,
@@ -71,6 +81,7 @@ production.
 * 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.
 
 === External library changes in 1.31 ===
 
@@ -294,6 +305,8 @@ changes to languages because of Phabricator reports.
   * StripState::merge()
 * 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
@@ -310,6 +323,13 @@ changes to languages because of Phabricator reports.
 * 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.
 
 == Compatibility ==
 MediaWiki 1.31 requires PHP 5.5.9 or later. Although HHVM 3.18.5 or later is supported,
@@ -322,7 +342,7 @@ 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)