RELEASE-NOTES-1.30

   1 == MediaWiki 1.30 ==
   2
   3 THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
   4
   5 MediaWiki 1.30 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in
   6 production.
   7
   8 === Configuration changes in 1.30 ===
   9 * The C.UTF-8 locale should be used for $wgShellLocale, if available, to avoid
  10   unexpected behavior when things use local-sensitive string comparisons. For
  11   example, Scribunto considers "bar" < "Foo" in most locales since it ignores
  12   case.
  13 * $wgShellLocale now affects LC_ALL rather than only LC_CTYPE. See
  14   documentation of $wgShellLocale for details.
  15 * $wgJobClasses may now specify callback functions
  16   as an alternative to plain class names.
  17   This is intended for extensions that want control
  18   over the instantiation of their jobs,
  19   to allow for proper dependency injection.
  20 * $wgResourceModules may now specify callback functions as an alternative
  21   to plain class names, using the 'factory' key in the module description
  22   array. This allows dependency injection to be used for ResourceLoader modules.
  23 * $wgExceptionHooks has been removed.
  24
  25 === New features in 1.30 ===
  26 * (T37247) Output from Parser::parse() will now be wrapped in a div with
  27   class="mw-parser-output" by default. This may be changed or disabled using
  28   ParserOptions::setWrapOutputClass().
  29 * Added 'ChangeTagsAllowedAdd' hook, enabling extensions to allow software-
  30   specific tags to be added by users.
  31 * File storage backends that supports headers (eg. Swift) now store an
  32   X-Content-Dimensions header for originals that contain the media's dimensions
  33   as page ranges keyed by dimensions.
  34
  35 === External library changes in 1.30 ===
  36
  37 ==== Upgraded external libraries ====
  38 * …
  39
  40 ==== New external libraries ====
  41 * …
  42
  43 ==== Removed and replaced external libraries ====
  44 * …
  45
  46 === Bug fixes in 1.30 ===
  47 * (T151633) Ordered list items use now Devanagari digits in Nepalese
  48   (thanks to Sfic)
  49
  50 === Action API changes in 1.30 ===
  51 * (T37247) action=parse output will be wrapped in a div with
  52   class="mw-parser-output" by default. This may be changed or disabled using
  53   the new 'wrapoutputclass' parameter.
  54 * When errorformat is not 'bc', abort reasons from action=login will be
  55   formatted as specified by the error formatter parameters.
  56
  57 === Action API internal changes in 1.30 ===
  58 * …
  59
  60 === Languages updated in 1.30 ===
  61 MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated
  62 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
  63 changes to languages because of Phabricator reports.
  64
  65 * …
  66
  67 === Other changes in 1.30 ===
  68 * The use of an associative array for $wgProxyList, where the IP address is in
  69   the key instead of the value, is deprecated (e.g. [ '127.0.0.1' => 'value' ]).
  70   Please convert these arrays to indexed/sequential ones (e.g. [ '127.0.0.1' ]).
  71 * mw.user.bucket (deprecated in 1.23) was removed.
  72 * LoadBalancer::getServerInfo() and LoadBalancer::setServerInfo() are
  73   deprecated. There are no known callers.
  74 * File::getStreamHeaders() was deprecated.
  75 * MediaHandler::getStreamHeaders() was deprecated.
  76 * The ExtractThumbParameters hook (deprecated in 1.21) was removed.
  77 * The OutputPage::addParserOutputNoText and ::getHeadLinks methods (both
  78   deprecated in 1.24) were removed.
  79 * wfMemcKey() and wfGlobalCacheKey() were deprecated. ObjectCache::makeKey() and
  80   ObjectCache::makeGlobalKey() should be used instead.
  81
  82 == Compatibility ==
  83 MediaWiki 1.30 requires PHP 5.5.9 or later. There is experimental support for
  84 HHVM 3.6.5 or later.
  85
  86 MySQL/MariaDB is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used,
  87 but support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for
  88 Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
  89
  90 The supported versions are:
  91
  92 * MySQL 5.0.3 or later
  93 * PostgreSQL 8.3 or later
  94 * SQLite 3.3.7 or later
  95 * Oracle 9.0.1 or later
  96 * Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (9.00.1399)
  97
  98 == Upgrading ==
  99 1.30 has several database changes since 1.29, and will not work without schema
 100 updates. Note that due to changes to some very large tables like the revision
 101 table, the schema update may take quite long (minutes on a medium sized site,
 102 many hours on a large site).
 103
 104 Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
 105
 106 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions, including
 107 important information when upgrading from versions prior to 1.11.
 108
 109 For notes on 1.29.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
 110
 111 == Online documentation ==
 112 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is available on
 113 MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except
 114 for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain):
 115
 116        https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Documentation
 117
 118 == Mailing list ==
 119 A mailing list is available for MediaWiki user support and discussion:
 120
 121        https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
 122
 123 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
 124
 125        https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
 126
 127 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
 128 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
 129
 130 == IRC help ==
 131 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net.