RELEASE-NOTES-1.32

   1 == MediaWiki 1.32 ==
   2
   3 THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
   4
   5 MediaWiki 1.32 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in
   6 production.
   7
   8 === Configuration changes in 1.32 ===
   9 * (T115414) The $wgEnableAPI and $wgEnableWriteAPI settings, deprecated in 1.31,
  10   have been removed.
  11 * The $wgUseAjax setting, deprecated in 1.31, is now ignored.
  12 * The $wgSiteSupportPage setting, unused since 1.5, was removed.
  13 * The $wgBrowserBlacklist setting, deprecated in 1.30, was removed.
  14 * The default quality of JPEG thumbnails generated by GD was reduced from 95 to
  15   80. The quality of JPEG thumbnails is now configurable through the new setting
  16   $wgJpegQuality (default 80). This aligns the quality to what ImageMagick uses.
  17 * $wgExperimentalHtmlIds, deprecated since 1.30, has been removed. The
  18   'html5-legacy' value for $wgFragmentMode is no longer accepted.
  19 * The experimental Html5Internal and Html5Depurate tidy drivers were removed.
  20   RemexHtml, which is the default, should be used instead.
  21 * (T135963) You can now define a Content Security Policy for your wiki. This
  22   adds a defense-in-depth feature to stop an attacker who has found a bug in
  23   the parser allowing them to insert malicious attributes. Disabled by default,
  24   you can configure this via $wgCSPHeader and $wgCSPReportOnlyHeader.
  25 * New configuration variable has been added: $wgCookieSetOnIpBlock.
  26   This determines whether to set a cookie when an IP user is blocked. Doing so
  27   means that a blocked user, even after moving to a new IP address, will still
  28   be blocked.
  29 * The archive table's ar_rev_id field is now unique.
  30 * Special:BotPasswords now requires reauthentication.
  31 * (T194414) The default watchlist view time has been increased from 3 to 7 days.
  32 * The right to edit sitewide Javascript (e.g. MediaWiki:Common.js), CSS or JSON
  33   was separated from 'editinterface' and is available under
  34   'editsitejs'/'editsitecss'/'editsitejson'. Having 'editinterface' is still
  35   necessary to edit such pages.
  36 * A new user group, 'interface-admin', is added for controlling access to
  37   sitewide CSS/JS (and editing other users' CSS/JS). No other group has
  38   'editsitecss', 'editusercss', 'editsitejs' or 'edituserjs' by default.
  39 * A new grant group, 'editsiteconfig', is added for granting the above rights.
  40
  41 === New features in 1.32 ===
  42 * (T112474) Generalized the ResourceLoader mechanism for overriding modules
  43   using a particular page during edit previews.
  44 * (T12331) You can now log page creation events by setting $wgPageCreationLog
  45   to true.
  46 * Added 'ApiParseMakeOutputPage' hook.
  47 * (T174313) Added checkbox on Special:ListUsers to display only users in
  48   temporary user groups.
  49 * (T152462) A cookie can now be set when an IP user is blocked to track that
  50   user if they move to a new IP address. This is disabled by default.
  51 * (T194950) Added 'ApiMaxLagInfo' hook.
  52 * SpecialPage::checkLoginSecurityLevel() will now preserve POST data when
  53   reauthenticating.
  54 * FormSpecialPage::execute() will now call checkLoginSecurityLevel() if
  55   getLoginSecurityLevel() returns non-false.
  56 * The 'ImageBeforeProduceHTML' hook is now passed three new parameters, $parser,
  57   &$query and &$widthOption, allowing extensions even finer control over the
  58   resulting HTML code.
  59 * Added new 'ArticleShowPatrolFooter' hook, which allows extensions to determine
  60   if the [mark as patrolled] link should be shown at the footer of patrollable
  61   pages.
  62 * The array of hidden options ($opts) passed to the 'SpecialSearchPowerBox' hook
  63   is now passed by reference, allowing extensions to modify or even unset it.
  64 * Added new 'OutputPageAfterGetHeadLinksArray' hook, allowing extensions to
  65   modify the return value of OutputPage#getHeadLinksArray in order to add,
  66   remove or otherwise alter the elements to be output in the page <head>.
  67 * (T28934) The 'HistoryPageToolLinks' hook allows extensions to append
  68   additional links to the subtitle of a history page.
  69 * The 'GetLinkColours' hook now receives an additional $title parameter,
  70   the Title object of the page being parsed, on which the links will be shown.
  71
  72 === External library changes in 1.32 ===
  73 * …
  74
  75 ==== Upgraded external libraries ====
  76 * Updated QUnit from 2.4.0 to 2.6.0.
  77 * Updated wikimedia/scoped-callback from 1.0.0 to 2.0.0.
  78 ** ScopedCallback objects can no longer be serialized.
  79 * Updated wikimedia/wrappedstring from 2.3.0 to 3.0.1.
  80 * Updated mediawiki/mediawiki-codesniffer from v20.0.0 to v21.0.0.
  81 * Updated composer/spdx-licenses from 1.3.0 to 1.4.0.
  82 * Updated jquery.i18n from 1.0.4 to 1.0.5.
  83
  84 ==== New external libraries ====
  85 * Added wikimedia/xmp-reader 0.5.1
  86 * …
  87
  88 ==== Removed and replaced external libraries ====
  89 * …
  90
  91 === Bug fixes in 1.32 ===
  92 * SpecialPage::execute() will now only call checkLoginSecurityLevel() if
  93   getLoginSecurityLevel() returns non-false.
  94
  95 === Action API changes in 1.32 ===
  96 * Added templated parameters.
  97   * A module can define a templated parameter like "{fruit}-quantity", where
  98     the actual parameters recognized correspond to the values of a multi-valued
  99     parameter. Then clients can make requests like
 100     "fruits=apples|bananas&apples-quantity=1&bananas-quantity=5".
 101   * action=paraminfo will return templated parameter definitions separately
 102     from normal parameters. All parameter definitions now include an "index"
 103     key to allow clients to maintain parameter ordering when merging normal and
 104     templated parameters.
 105 * It is now an error to submit too many values for a multi-valued parameter.
 106   This has generated a warning since MediaWiki 1.14.
 107 * Assertion failures from the 'assert' and 'assertuser' parameters will no
 108   longer use the action module's custom response format, for the few modules
 109   that use custom formatters that handle errors.
 110 * (T198935) User list preferences such as `email-blacklist` and similar
 111   extension preferences are no longer represented as arrays when returned by
 112   action=query&meta=userinfo&uiprop=options.
 113 * 'missingparam' errors will now use the prefixed parameter name in the code
 114   and error text, e.g. "noxxfoo" and "The 'xxfoo' parameter must be set" rather
 115   than "nofoo" and "The 'foo' parameter must be set".
 116 * action=query&prop=revisions now takes a 'rvslots' parameter to indicate the
 117   multi-content revision slots for which content should be returned. It also
 118   has a new rvprop, 'roles', to indicate which roles have slots. A deprecation
 119   warning will be issued if rvprop=content or rvprop=contentmodel are used
 120   without rvslots.
 121 * The rvcontentformat parameter to action=query&prop=revisions has been
 122   deprecated. Clients should be prepared to deal with the default format for
 123   relevant models.
 124 * Use of the deprecated parameters rvexpandtemplates, rvgeneratexml, rvparse,
 125   rvdiffto, rvdifftotext, rvdifftotextpst, rvcontentformat, or the deprecated
 126   rvprop=parsetree is forbidden with the new 'rvslots' parameter.
 127 * action=query&prop=deletedrevisions, action=query&list=allrevisions, and
 128   action=query&list=alldeletedrevisions are changed similarly to
 129   &prop=revisions (see the three previous items).
 130
 131 === Action API internal changes in 1.32 ===
 132 * Added 'ApiParseMakeOutputPage' hook.
 133 * Parameter names may no longer contain '{' or '}', as these are now used for
 134   templated parameters.
 135 * (T194950) Added 'ApiMaxLagInfo' hook.
 136 * Added 'ApiParseMakeOutputPage' hook.
 137 * The following methods now take a RevisionRecord rather than a Revision. No
 138   external callers are known.
 139   * ApiFeedContributions::feedItemAuthor()
 140   * ApiFeedContributions::feedItemDesc()
 141   * ApiQueryRevisionsBase::extractRevisionInfo()
 142
 143 === Languages updated in 1.32 ===
 144 MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated regularly.
 145 Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as changes to languages
 146 because of Phabricator reports.
 147
 148 * (T193566) Added language support for Ambonese Malay (abs).
 149 * (T194047) Added language support for Shawiya, Latin script (shy-latn).
 150 * (T195940) Added language support for Batak Mandailing (btm).
 151 * (T137491) Added language support for Standard Moroccan Amazigh (zgh).
 152 * (T198132) Added language support for Manipuri (mni).
 153 * (T201276) Added language support for Western Armenian (hyw).
 154 * (T201583) Added language support for Mon (mnw).
 155
 156 === Breaking changes in 1.32 ===
 157 * $wgRequestTime, deprecated in 1.25, was removed. Use
 158   $_SERVER['REQUEST_TIME_FLOAT'] or WebRequest::getElapsedTime() instead.
 159 * The MediaWikiI18N class, deprecated in 1.31, was removed.
 160 * QuickTemplate::setTranslator(), deprecated in 1.31, was removed. Use
 161   Skin::msg() instead.
 162 * wfInitShellLocale(), deprecated in 1.30, was removed.
 163 * wfShellExecDisabled(), deprecated in 1.30, was removed.
 164 * The type string for the parameter $lang of DateFormatter::getInstance,
 165   deprecated in 1.31, was removed.
 166 * The EDIT_TOKEN_SUFFIX constant deprecated in 1.27, was removed. Use
 167   MediaWiki\Session\Token::SUFFIX instead.
 168 * EditPage::isOouiEnabled() deprecated in 1.30, was removed.
 169 * mw.util.wikiGetlink(), deprecated in 1.23, was removed. Use mw.util.getUrl()
 170   instead.
 171 * (T61113) The following methods and constants from the Revision class, which
 172   were deprecated in 1.25, have now been removed:
 173   * Revision::getRawUser()
 174   * Revision::getRawUserText()
 175   * Revision::getRawComment()
 176 * window.gM() from mediawiki.jqueryMsg, deprecated in 1.23, was removed. Use
 177   mw.msg() or mw.message() instead.
 178 * mw.util.escapeId(), deprecated in 1.30, was removed. Use
 179   mw.util.escapeIdForAttribute or mw.util.escapeIdForLink instead.
 180 * mw.util.updateTooltipAccessKeys(), deprecated in 1.24, was removed. Use
 181   jquery.accessKeyLabel instead.
 182 * The SqlDataUpdate class, deprecated in 1.28, has been removed.
 183 * The Html5Internal and Html5Depurate tidy driver classes were removed, along
 184   with the Balancer tidy implementation. Both implementations were experimental,
 185   and were replaced by RemexHtml.
 186 * (T179624) Job::insert() and ::batchInsert(), deprecated in 1.21, were both
 187   removed. Use JobQueueGroup::singleton()->push() instead.
 188 * The jquery.footHovzer module, for mediawiki.debug, was removed.
 189 * The es5-shim module, empty and deprecated since 1.29, was removed.
 190 * the dom-level2-shim module, empty and deprecated since 1.29, was removed.
 191 * the json module, empty and deprecated since 1.29, was removed.
 192 * The mediawiki.widgets.visibleByteLimit module alias, deprecated in 1.32, was
 193   removed. Use mediawiki.widgets.visibleLengthLimit instead.
 194 * The jquery.farbtastic module, unused since 1.18, was removed.
 195 * (T181318) The $wgStyleVersion setting and its appendage to various script and
 196   style URLs in OutputPage, deprecated in 1.31, was removed.
 197 * The hooks 'PreferencesFormPreSave' and 'PreferencesGetLegend' may provide
 198   any HTMLForm object rather than PreferencesForm.
 199 * The non namespaced TimestampException class, deprecated in 1.29, was removed.
 200   Use Wikimedia\Timestamp\TimestampException instead.
 201 * The global functions codepointToUtf8, hexSequenceToUtf8, utf8ToHexSequence,
 202   utf8ToCodepoint, and escapeSingleString (deprecated in 1.25) were removed.
 203   The UtfNormal\Utils class from the utfnormal library should be used instead.
 204 * The deprecated UTF8_ and UNICODE_ constants were removed. The class constants
 205   from the UtfNormal\Constants class from the utfnormal library should be used
 206 * (T140807) The wgResourceLoaderLESSImportPaths configuration option was removed
 207   from ResourceLoader. Instead, use `@import` statements in LESS to import
 208   files directly from nearby directories within the same project.
 209 * (T140804) The wgResourceLoaderLESSVars configuration option, deprecated
 210   since 1.30, was removed. Instead, to expose variables from PHP to LESS, use
 211   the ResourceLoaderModule::getLessVars() method.
 212 * The protected methods PHPSessionHandler::returnSuccess() and returnFailure(),
 213   only needed for PHP5 compatibility, have been removed. It now uses the boolean
 214   values `true` and `false` respectively.
 215 * The $parserMemc global and wfGetParserCacheStorage(), deprecated since 1.30,
 216   were removed. Use the ParserCache class instead.
 217 * ScopedCallback (deprecated in 1.28) was removed. Use Wikimedia\ScopedCallback
 218   instead.
 219 * Support for ResourceLoaderModule::getModifiedTime() and getModifiedHash(),
 220   deprecated since 1.26, was removed. Use getDefinitionSummary() instead.
 221 * (T195256) Skins are recommended not to rely on JavaScript for the "mw-jump"
 222   and "jump-to-nav" accessibility links. To this end, the "jquery.mw-jump"
 223   is no longer loaded by default. The Vector and MonoBook skins have made a
 224   minor change to implement the toggle feature with CSS instead. To restore
 225   prior functionality, either explicitly load "jquery.mw-jump" in your skin
 226   or refer to T195256 for details on how to make the same change.
 227 * Hook 'EditPageBeforeEditChecks' was removed;
 228   use 'EditPageGetCheckboxesDefinition' instead.
 229 * Linker::getLinkColour() and DummyLinker::getLinkColour(), deprecated since
 230   1.28, were removed. LinkRenderer::getLinkClasses() should be used instead.
 231 * Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer::getLaggedSlaveMode(), deprecated in 1.28, has
 232   been removed. Use Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer::getLaggedReplicaMode()
 233   instead.
 234 * mw.widgets.CategoryMultiselectWidget now uses TagMultiselectWidget instead of
 235   CapsuleMultiselectWidget. The following methods may no longer be used:
 236   * setItemsFromData: Use setValue instead
 237   * getItemsData: Use getItems instead and get the data property
 238 * Two OutputPage methods, addMetadataLink() and getMetadataAttribute(), were
 239   removed.  Use addLink() instead.
 240 * Another two OutputPage methods, setPageTitleActionText() and
 241   getPageTitleActionText(), were removed.  They did nothing since 1.15 (almost
 242   ten years).  Use setHTMLTitle() directly.
 243 * All MagicWord static member variables have been removed.  Use appropriate
 244   hooks or MagicWordFactory methods instead.
 245 * MagicWord::clearCache() has been removed.  Instead, create a new
 246   MagicWordFactory, such as by calling
 247   resetServiceForTesting( 'MagicWordFactory' ) on a MediaWikiServices.
 248 * mw.util.init() has been removed. This function is not needed anymore and was
 249   a no-op function since 1.30.
 250
 251 === Deprecations in 1.32 ===
 252 * Use of a StartProfiler.php file is deprecated in favour of placing
 253   configuration in LocalSettings.php.
 254 * HTMLForm::setSubmitProgressive() is deprecated. No need to call it. Submit
 255   button is already marked as progressive.
 256 * Skin::setupSkinUserCss() is deprecated. Adding of modules to load
 257   has been centralised to Skin::getDefaultModules(), which is now capable
 258   of queueing style modules as well.
 259 * OutputPage::addModuleScripts() and ParserOutput::addModuleScripts are
 260   deprecated. Use addModules() instead.
 261 * Overriding SearchEngine::{searchText,searchTitle,searchArchiveTitle}
 262   in extending classes is deprecated.  Extend related doSearch* methods
 263   instead.
 264 * CollationFa has been removed completely as it's not needed anymore
 265 * The following 'mediawiki.api' plugin modules were merged into mediawiki.api
 266   and deprecated: mediawiki.api.category, mediawiki.api.edit,
 267   mediawiki.api.login, mediawiki.api.options, mediawiki.api.parse,
 268   mediawiki.api.upload, mediawiki.api.user, mediawiki.api.watch,
 269   mediawiki.api.messages, and mediawiki.api.rollback.
 270 * ApiBase::truncateArray() is deprecated. No replacement, as nothing is known
 271   to use it.
 272 * WatchAction::getUnwatchToken is deprecated. Use WatchAction::getWatchToken
 273   with the 'unwatch' action parameter instead.
 274 * IcuCollation::getICUVersion() is deprecated, as you can just use the PHP
 275   constant INTL_ICU_VERSION directly in all versions that MediaWiki supports.
 276 * Parser::fetchFile() is deprecated. Use ::fetchFileAndTitle() instead.
 277 * The ApiQueryContributions class has been renamed to ApiQueryUserContribs.
 278 * The XMPInfo, XMPReader, and XMPValidate classes have been deprecated in favor
 279   of the namespaced classes provided by the wikimedia/xmp-reader library.
 280 * SearchResultSet::{next,rewind} are deprecated. Calling code should
 281   use foreach on the SearchResultSet, or the extractResults method. Extending
 282   code should override extractResults.
 283 * Instantiating SearchResultSet directly is deprecated. SearchEngine
 284   implementations must subclass SearchResultSet for their purposes.
 285 * SearchResult::setExtensionData argument has been changed from accepting an
 286   array to accepting a Closure that returns the array when called.
 287 * Class CryptRand, everything in MWCryptRand except generateHex() and function
 288   MediaWikiServices::getCryptRand() are deprecated, use random_bytes() to
 289   generate cryptographically secure random byte sequences.
 290 * Parser::getConverterLanguage() is deprecated.  Use ::getTargetLanguage()
 291   instead.
 292 * Language::markNoConversion() is deprecated.  It confused readers because
 293   it had unexpected behavior (only marking text if it looked like a URL)
 294   and was only used in a single place in the code.  Use
 295   LanguageConverter::markNoConversion() instead.
 296 * (T197492) Language::truncate() was soft deprecated in 1.31 and is
 297   hard deprecated in this release.  It has been split into two similar
 298   methods, Language::truncateForVisual() and Language::truncateForDatabase(),
 299   which measure length in characters and bytes, respectively.  Use
 300   Language::truncateForVisual() when possible to provide equity to users
 301   of multibyte scripts.
 302 * (T176526) EditPage::getContextTitle() falling back to $wgTitle when the
 303   context title is unset is now deprecated; anything creating an EditPage
 304   instance should set the context title via ::setContextTitle().
 305 * The 'jquery.hidpi' module (polyfill for IMG srcset) is deprecated.
 306 * ResourceLoaderStartUpModule::getStartupModules() and ::getLegacyModules()
 307   are deprecated. These concepts are obsolete and have no replacement.
 308 * String type for $lang of DifferenceEngine::setTextLanguage is deprecated.
 309 * The following methods of OutputPage are now deprecated in favour
 310   of using showFatalError directly: OutputPage::showFileDeleteError()
 311   OutputPage::showFileNotFoundError(), OutputPage::showFileRenameError()
 312   OutputPage::showFileCopyError() and OutputPage::showUnexpectedValueError().
 313 * The Replacer, DoubleReplacer, HashtableReplacer, and RegexlikeReplacer
 314   classes are now deprecated. Use a Closure instead.
 315 * (T194263) ContentHandler::makeParserOptions() is deprecated. Use
 316   WikiPage::makeParserOptions() or ParserOptions::newCanonical() instead.
 317 * (T100681) Use of the Parsoid v1 API with the VirtualRESTService, deprecated in
 318   MediaWiki 1.26,  is now hard-deprecated. All known clients were converted to
 319   the Parsoid v3 API in May 2015.
 320 * $input is deprecated in hook 'LogEventsListGetExtraInputs'. Use
 321   $formDescriptor instead.
 322 * SearchEngine::transformSearchTerm( $term ) should no longer be called prior
 323   to running searchText. This method was mainly implemented to support the
 324   'prefix' URI param in SpecialSearch, but there are no reasons to expose this
 325   logic as it should be handled internally by SearchEngine implementations
 326   supporting this feature. SearchEngine implementations should no longer
 327   override this methods.
 328 * SearchEngine::replacePrefixes( $query ) should no longer be called prior
 329   to running searchText/searchTitle.
 330 * (T199657) Messages for $wgFilterLogTypes labels should be no longer be in the
 331   'log-show-hide-[type]' format. Instead use 'logeventslist-[type]-log'.
 332 * Global functions  wfArrayFilter() and wfArrayFilterByKey() are deprecated.
 333   use array_filter() directly.
 334 * The $wgShowSQLErrors global is deprecated and nonfunctional.
 335   Set $wgShowExceptionDetails and/or $wgShowHostnames instead.
 336 * The $wgShowDBErrorBacktrace global is deprecated and nonfunctional.
 337   Set $wgShowExceptionDetails instead.
 338 * Public access to the DifferenceEngine properties mOldid, mNewid, mOldPage,
 339   mNewPage, mOldContent, mNewContent, mRevisionsLoaded, mTextLoaded and
 340   mCacheHit is deprecated. Use getOldid() / getNewid() for the first two,
 341   do your own lookup for page/content. mNewRev / mOldRev remains public.
 342 * The $wgExternalDiffEngine value 'wikidiff2' is deprecated. To use wikidiff2
 343   just enable the PHP extension, and it will be autodetected.
 344 * The wfUseMW function, soft-deprecated in 1.26, is now hard deprecated.
 345 * All MagicWord static methods are now deprecated.  Use the MagicWordFactory
 346   methods instead.
 347 * PasswordFactory::init is deprecated. To get a password factory with the
 348   standard configuration, use MediaWikiServices::getPasswordFactory.
 349
 350 === Other changes in 1.32 ===
 351 * (T198811) The following tables have had their UNIQUE indexes turned into
 352   proper PRIMARY KEYs for increased maintainability: interwiki, page_props,
 353   protected_titles and site_identifiers.
 354 * …
 355
 356 == Compatibility ==
 357 MediaWiki 1.32 requires PHP 7.0.0 or later. Although HHVM 3.18.5 or later is
 358 supported, it is generally advised to use PHP 7.0.0 or later for long term
 359 support.
 360
 361 MySQL/MariaDB is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used,
 362 but support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for
 363 Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
 364
 365 The supported versions are:
 366
 367 * MySQL 5.5.8 or later
 368 * PostgreSQL 9.2 or later
 369 * SQLite 3.3.7 or later
 370 * Oracle 9.0.1 or later
 371 * Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (9.00.1399)
 372
 373 == Upgrading ==
 374 1.32 has several database changes since 1.31, and will not work without schema
 375 updates. Note that due to changes to some very large tables like the revision
 376 table, the schema update may take quite long (minutes on a medium sized site,
 377 many hours on a large site).
 378
 379 Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
 380
 381 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions, including
 382 important information when upgrading from versions prior to 1.11.
 383
 384 For notes on 1.31.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
 385
 386 == Online documentation ==
 387 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is available on
 388 MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except
 389 for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain):
 390
 391        https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Documentation
 392
 393 == Mailing list ==
 394 A mailing list is available for MediaWiki user support and discussion:
 395
 396        https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
 397
 398 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
 399
 400        https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
 401
 402 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
 403 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
 404
 405 == IRC help ==
 406 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net.