sitewide CSS/JS (and editing other users' CSS/JS). No other group has
'editsitecss', 'editusercss', 'editsitejs' or 'edituserjs' by default.
* A new grant group, 'editsiteconfig', is added for granting the above rights.
+* The $wgPasswordSenderName setting, ignored since 1.23 by MediaWiki and almost
+ all extensions, is no longer set at all. Instead, you can modify the system
+ message `emailsender`.
=== New features in 1.32 ===
* (T112474) Generalized the ResourceLoader mechanism for overriding modules
additional links to the subtitle of a history page.
* The 'GetLinkColours' hook now receives an additional $title parameter,
the Title object of the page being parsed, on which the links will be shown.
+* (T194731) DifferenceEngine supports multiple slots. Added SlotDiffRenderer to
+ render diffs between two Content objects, and DifferenceEngine::setRevisions()
+ to render diffs between two custom (potentially multi-content) revisions.
+ Added GetSlotDiffRenderer hook which works like GetDifferenceEngine for slots.
=== External library changes in 1.32 ===
* …
* The mediawiki.widgets.visibleByteLimit module alias, deprecated in 1.32, was
removed. Use mediawiki.widgets.visibleLengthLimit instead.
* The jquery.farbtastic module, unused since 1.18, was removed.
+* The 'jquery.expandableField' module, unused since 1.22, was removed.
* (T181318) The $wgStyleVersion setting and its appendage to various script and
style URLs in OutputPage, deprecated in 1.31, was removed.
* The hooks 'PreferencesFormPreSave' and 'PreferencesGetLegend' may provide
* (T140807) The wgResourceLoaderLESSImportPaths configuration option was removed
from ResourceLoader. Instead, use `@import` statements in LESS to import
files directly from nearby directories within the same project.
+* (T140804) The wgResourceLoaderLESSVars configuration option, deprecated
+ since 1.30, was removed. Instead, to expose variables from PHP to LESS, use
+ the ResourceLoaderModule::getLessVars() method.
* The protected methods PHPSessionHandler::returnSuccess() and returnFailure(),
only needed for PHP5 compatibility, have been removed. It now uses the boolean
values `true` and `false` respectively.
resetServiceForTesting( 'MagicWordFactory' ) on a MediaWikiServices.
* mw.util.init() has been removed. This function is not needed anymore and was
a no-op function since 1.30.
+* SpecialPageFactory::resetList() is a no-op. Call overrideMwServices()
+ instead.
=== Deprecations in 1.32 ===
* Use of a StartProfiler.php file is deprecated in favour of placing
Set $wgShowExceptionDetails and/or $wgShowHostnames instead.
* The $wgShowDBErrorBacktrace global is deprecated and nonfunctional.
Set $wgShowExceptionDetails instead.
-* Public access to the DifferenceEngine properties mOldid, mNewid, mOldPage,
- mNewPage, mOldContent, mNewContent, mRevisionsLoaded, mTextLoaded and
- mCacheHit is deprecated. Use getOldid() / getNewid() for the first two,
- do your own lookup for page/content. mNewRev / mOldRev remains public.
+* Public access to the DifferenceEngine properties mOldid, mNewid, mOldRev,
+ mNewRev, mOldPage, mNewPage, mOldContent, mNewContent, mRevisionsLoaded,
+ mTextLoaded and mCacheHit is deprecated. Use getOldid() / getNewid() /
+ getOldRevision() / getNewRevision() for the first four (note that the
+ revision ones return a RevisionRecord, not a Revision), do your own lookup
+ for page/content.
* The $wgExternalDiffEngine value 'wikidiff2' is deprecated. To use wikidiff2
just enable the PHP extension, and it will be autodetected.
+* (T194731) DifferenceEngine properties mOldContent and mNewContent and methods
+ setContent(), generateContentDiffBody(), generateTextDiffBody() and textDiff()
+ are deprecated. To interact with a single slot, use a SlotDiffRenderer (and
+ subclass it to customize diff rendering); to diff custom (e.g. unsaved)
+ content, use setRevisions(). Subclassing DifferenceEngine should only be done
+ to customize page-level diff properties (such as the navigation header).
* The wfUseMW function, soft-deprecated in 1.26, is now hard deprecated.
* All MagicWord static methods are now deprecated. Use the MagicWordFactory
methods instead.
* PasswordFactory::init is deprecated. To get a password factory with the
standard configuration, use MediaWikiServices::getPasswordFactory.
+* $wgContLang is deprecated, use MediaWikiServices::getContentLanguage()
+ instead.
+* $wgParser is deprecated, use MediaWikiServices::getParser() instead.
+* wfGetMainCache() is deprecated, use ObjectCache::getLocalClusterInstance()
+ instead.
+* wfGetCache() is deprecated, use ObjectCache::getInstance() instead.
+* All SpecialPageFactory static methods are deprecated. Instead, call the
+ methods on a SpecialPageFactory instance, which may be obtained from
+ MediaWikiServices.
+* mw.user.stickyRandomId was renamed to the more explicit
+ mw.user.getPageviewToken to better capture its function.
=== Other changes in 1.32 ===
* (T198811) The following tables have had their UNIQUE indexes turned into
proper PRIMARY KEYs for increased maintainability: interwiki, page_props,
protected_titles and site_identifiers.
+* OOUI HTMLForm will now display help text inline after the input field,
+ rather than in a popup. Previous behavior can be restored by using
+ `'help-inline' => false`.
* …
== Compatibility ==