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1 = MediaWiki 1.34 =
2
3 == MediaWiki 1.34.0-PRERELEASE ==
4
5 THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
6
7 MediaWiki 1.34 is an alpha-quality development branch, and is not recommended
8 for use in production.
9
10 == Upgrading notes for 1.34 ==
11 1.34 has several database changes since 1.33, and will not work without schema
12 updates. Note that due to changes to some very large tables like the revision
13 table, the schema update may take quite long (minutes on a medium sized site,
14 many hours on a large site).
15
16 Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
17
18 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions, including
19 important information when upgrading from versions prior to 1.11.
20
21 Some specific notes for MediaWiki 1.34 upgrades are below:
22
23 * …
24
25 For notes on 1.33.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
26
27 === Configuration changes for system administrators in 1.34 ===
28
29 ==== New configuration ====
30 * $wgAllowExternalReqID (T201409) - This configuration setting controls whether
31 Mediawiki accepts the request ID set by the incoming request via the
32 `X-Request-Id` header. If set to `true`, that value will be used throughout
33 the code as the request identificator. Otherwise, the sent header will be
34 ignored and the request ID will either be taken from Apache's mod_unique
35 module or will be generated by Mediawiki itself (depending on the set-up).
36 * $wgEnableSpecialMute (T218265) - This configuration controls whether
37 Special:Mute is available and whether to include a link to it on emails
38 originating from Special:Email.
39 * editmyuserjsredirect user right – users without this right now cannot edit JS
40 redirects in their userspace unless the target of the redirect is also in
41 their userspace. By default, this right is given to everyone.
42
43 ==== Changed configuration ====
44 * $wgUseCdn, $wgCdnServers, $wgCdnServersNoPurge, and $wgCdnMaxAge – These four
45 CDN-related config variables have been renamed from being specific to Squid –
46 they were previously $wgUseSquid, $wgSquidServers, $wgSquidServersNoPurge, and
47 $wgSquidMaxage respectively. This aligns them with the related existing
48 variable $wgCdnMaxageLagged. The previous configuration variable names are
49 deprecated, but will be used as the fall back if they are still set.
50 Note that wgSquidPurgeUseHostHeader has not been renamed, as it is deprecated.
51 * (T27707) File type checks for image uploads have been relaxed to allow files
52 containing some HTML markup in metadata. As a result, the $wgAllowTitlesInSVG
53 setting is no longer applied and is now always true. Note that MSIE 7 may
54 still be able to misinterpret certain malformed PNG files as HTML.
55 * Introduced $wgVerifyMimeTypeIE to allow disabling the MSIE 6/7 file type
56 detection heuristic on upload, which is more conservative than the checks
57 that were changed above.
58 * $wgSkipSkin — Setting this instead of $wgSkipSkins, deprecated in 1.23, is now
59 hard-deprecated.
60 * $wgLocalInterwiki — Setting this instead of $wgLocalInterwikis, deprecated in
61 1.23, is now hard-deprecated.
62 * $wgProfileOnly — Setting this, deprecated in 1.23, is now hard-deprecated.
63 Instead, set the log file in $wgDebugLogGroups['profileoutput'].
64 * …
65
66 ==== Removed configuration ====
67 * $wgWikiDiff2MovedParagraphDetectionCutoff — If you still want a custom change
68 size threshold, please specify in php.ini, using the configuration variable
69 wikidiff2.moved_paragraph_detection_cutoff.
70 * $wgDebugPrintHttpHeaders - The default of including HTTP headers in the
71 debug log channel is no longer configurable. The debug log itself remains
72 configurable via $wgDebugLogFile.
73 * $wgPasswordSalt – This setting, used for migrating exceptionally old, insecure
74 password setups and deprecated since 1.24, is now removed.
75
76 === New user-facing features in 1.34 ===
77 * Special:Mute has been added as a quick way for users to block unwanted emails
78 from other users originating from Special:EmailUser.
79
80 === New developer features in 1.34 ===
81 * The ImgAuthModifyHeaders hook was added to img_auth.php to allow modification
82 of headers in private wikis.
83 * Language::formatTimePeriod now supports the new 'avoidhours' option to output
84 strings like "5 days ago" instead of "5 days 13 hours ago".
85 * (T220163) Added SpecialMuteModifyFormFields hook to allow extensions
86 to add fields to Special:Mute.
87 * (T100896) Skin authors can define custom OOUI themes using OOUIThemePaths.
88 See <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OOUI/Themes> for details.
89
90 === External library changes in 1.34 ===
91
92 ==== New external libraries ====
93 * …
94
95 ==== Changed external libraries ====
96 * Updated Mustache from 1.0.0 to v3.0.1.
97 * Updated OOUI from v0.31.3 to v0.33.4.
98 * Updated composer/semver from 1.4.2 to 1.5.0.
99 * Updated composer/spdx-licenses from 1.4.0 to 1.5.1 (dev-only).
100 * Updated mediawiki/codesniffer from 25.0.0 to 26.0.0 (dev-only).
101 * Updated cssjanus/cssjanus from 1.2.1 to 1.3.0.
102 * Updated wikimedia/at-ease from 1.2.0 to 2.0.0.
103 * Updated wikimedia/remex-html from 2.0.1 to 2.0.3.
104 * Updated monolog/monolog from 1.22.1 to 1.24.0 (dev-only).
105 * Updated wikimedia/object-factory from 1.0.0 to 2.1.0.
106 * Updated wikimedia/timestamp from 2.2.0 to 3.0.0.
107 * Updated wikimedia/xmp-reader from 0.6.2 to 0.6.3.
108 * Updated mediawiki/mediawiki-phan-config from 0.6.0 to 0.6.1 (dev-only).
109 * …
110
111 ==== Removed external libraries ====
112 * The jquery.async module, deprecated in 1.33, was removed.
113 * …
114
115 === Bug fixes in 1.34 ===
116 * (T222529) If a log entry or page revision is recorded in the database with an
117 empty username, attempting to display it will log an error and return a "no
118 username available" to the user instead of silently displaying nothing or
119 invalid links.
120
121 === Action API changes in 1.34 ===
122 * The 'recenteditcount' response property from action=query list=allusers,
123 deprecated in 1.25, has been removed.
124
125 === Action API internal changes in 1.34 ===
126 * …
127
128 === Languages updated in 1.34 ===
129 MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated regularly.
130 Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as changes to languages
131 because of Phabricator reports.
132
133 * (T152908) Added language support for N'Ko (nqo).
134
135 === Breaking changes in 1.34 ===
136 * The global functions wfSuppressWarnings and wfRestoreWarnings, deprecated in
137 1.26, have been removed. Use Wikimedia\AtEase\AtEase::suppressWarnings() and
138 Wikimedia\AtEase\AtEase::restoreWarnings() directly.
139 * Preferences class, deprecated in 1.31, has been removed.
140 * The following parts of code, deprecated in 1.32, were removed in favor of
141 built-in PHP functions:
142 * CryptRand class
143 * CryptRand service
144 * Functions of the MWCryptRand class: singleton(), wasStrong() and generate().
145 * Language::setCode, deprecated in 1.32, was removed. Use Language::factory to
146 create a new Language object with a different language code.
147 * MWNamespace::clearCaches() has been removed. So has the $rebuild parameter
148 to MWNamespace::getCanonicalNamespaces(), which was deprecated since 1.31.
149 Instead, reset services, such as by calling $this->overrideMwServices() (if
150 your test extends MediaWikiTestCase). Services will generally not pick up
151 configuration changes from after they were created, so you must reset
152 services after any configuration change. Even if your code works now, it is
153 likely to break in future versions as more code is moved to services.
154 * The ill-defined "DatabaseOraclePostInit" hook has been removed.
155 * PreferencesFormLegacy and PreferencesForm classes, deprecated in 1.32, have
156 been removed.
157 * ObjectFactory class, deprecated in 1.31, has been removed.
158 * HWLDFWordAccumudlator class, deprecated in 1.28, has been removed.
159 * XMPInfo, XMPReader and XMPValidate, deprecated in 1.32, have been removed.
160 * The RedirectSpecialPage::execute method could sometimes return a Title object.
161 This behavior was removed, and the method now matches the parent signature
162 (SpecialPage::execute) which is to return HTML string or void.
163 To obtain the destination title, use RedirectSpecialPage::getRedirect.
164 * The 'recenteditcount' response property from action API action=query
165 list=allusers, deprecated in 1.25, has been removed.
166 * SearchEngine::userNamespaces(), SearchEngine::namespacesAsText(),
167 SearchEngine::create(), SearchEngine::getSearchTypes() and
168 SearchEngine::getNearMatch(), methods deprecated in 1.27, have been removed.
169 * FileRepo::streamFile(), deprecated in 1.26, has been removed.
170 * User::randomPassword() method, deprecated in 1.27, have been removed.
171 * MWNamespace::canTalk(), deprecated in 1.30, have been removed.
172 * Parser class property $mUniqPrefix, deprecated in 1.26, has been removed.
173 * wfArrayFilter() and wfArrayFilterByKey(), deprecated in 1.32, have been
174 removed.
175 * wfMakeUrlIndexes() function, deprecated in 1.33, have been removed.
176 * Method signatures in WatchedItemQueryServiceExtension have changed from taking
177 User objects to taking UserIdentity objects. Extensions implementing this
178 interface need to be changed accordingly.
179 * User::getGroupPage() and ::makeGroupLinkHTML(), deprecated in 1.29, have been
180 removed. Use UserGroupMembership::getGroupPage and ::getLink instead.
181 * User::makeGroupLinkWiki(), deprecated in 1.29, has been removed. Use
182 UserGroupMembership::getLink() instead.
183 * SavepointPostgres, deprecated in 1.31, has been removed.
184 * OutputPage::enableSectionEditLinks(), OutputPage::sectionEditLinksEnabled(),
185 ParserOptions::getEditSection(), ParserOptions::setEditSection(), and
186 ParserOutput::getEditSectionTokens, ::getTOCEnabled, ::setEditSectionTokens,
187 and ::setTOCEnabled, deprecated in 1.31, have been removed.
188 * EditPage::safeUnicodeInput() and ::safeUnicodeOutput(), deprecated in 1.30,
189 have been removed.
190 * Four methods in OutputPage, deprecated in 1.32, have been removed. You should
191 use OutputPage::showFatalError or throw a FatalError instead. The methods are
192 ::showFileCopyError(), ::showFileRenameError(), ::showFileDeleteError(), and
193 ::showFileNotFoundError().
194 * ApiBase::truncateArray(), deprecated in 1.32, has been removed.
195 * IcuCollation::getICUVersion(), deprecated in 1.32, has been removed. Use PHP's
196 INTL_ICU_VERSION constant directly.
197 * HTMLForm::setSubmitProgressive(), deprecated in 1.32, has been removed.
198 * ResourceLoaderStartUpModules::getStartupModules() and ::getLegacyModules(),
199 both deprecated in 1.32, have been removed.
200 * BaseTemplate::msgHtml() and QuickTemplate::msgHtml(), deprecated in 1.32, have
201 been removed. Use ->msg() or ->getMsg() instead.
202 * WatchAction::getUnwatchToken(), deprecated in 1.32, has been removed. Instead,
203 use WatchAction::getWatchToken() with action 'unwatch' directly.
204 * Language::initEncoding(), ::recodeForEdit(), and recodeInput(), deprecated in
205 1.28, have been removed.
206 * PageArchive::getTextFromRow(), ::listAllPages(), and ::getLastRevisionText(),
207 deprecated in 1.32, have been removed.
208 * OutputPage::getModuleScripts(), ParserOutput::getModuleScripts(), deprecated
209 in 1.33, have been removed.
210 * User::getPasswordValidity(), deprecated in 1.33, has been removed.
211 * ApiQueryBase::prepareUrlQuerySearchString(), deprecated in 1.33, has been
212 removed.
213 * ChangeTags::purgeTagUsageCache(), deprecated in 1.33, has been removed.
214 * JobQueueGroup::pushLazyJobs(), deprecated in 1.33, has been removed.
215 * MediaWikiTestCase::stashMwGlobals(), deprecated in 1.32, has been removed.
216 * SearchEngine::transformSearchTerm(), deprecated in 1.32, has been removed.
217 * The Block typehint only refers to blocks stored in the database. It should be
218 updated to AbstractBlock in cases where any type of block could be expected.
219 * FileRepoStatus, deprecated in 1.25, has been removed.
220 * The LegacyHookPreAuthenticationProvider class, deprecated since its creation
221 in 1.27, has been removed.
222 * IP::isValidBlock(), deprecated in 1.30, has been removed.
223 * WikiPage::prepareContentForEdit now doesn't accept an integer for $revision,
224 was deprecated in 1.25.
225 * The jquery.byteLength module, deprecated in 1.31, was removed.
226 Use the mediawiki.String module instead.
227 * mw.language.specialCharacters, deprecated in 1.33, has been removed.
228 Use require( 'mediawiki.language.specialCharacters' ) instead.
229 * EditPage::submit(), deprecated in 1.29, has been removed. Use $this->edit()
230 directly.
231 * HTMLForm::getErrors(), deprecated in 1.28, has been removed. Use
232 getErrorsOrWarnings() instead.
233 * SpecialPage::getTitle(), deprecated in 1.23, has been removed. Use
234 SpecialPage::getPageTitle() instead.
235 * jquery.ui.effect-bounce, jquery.ui.effect-explode, jquery.ui.effect-fold
236 jquery.ui.effect-pulsate, jquery.ui.effect-slide, jquery.ui.effect-transfer,
237 which are no longer used, have now been removed.
238 * SpecialEmailUser::validateTarget(), ::getTarget() without a sender/user
239 specified, deprecated in 1.30, have been removed.
240 * BufferingStatsdDataFactory::getBuffer(), deprecated in 1.30, has been removed.
241 * The constant DB_SLAVE, deprecated in 1.28, has been removed. Use DB_REPLICA.
242 * The constants NS_IMAGE and NS_IMAGE_TALK, deprecated in 1.14, have been
243 removed. Use NS_FILE and NS_FILE_TALK respectively.
244 * Replacer, DoubleReplacer, HashtableReplacer and RegexlikeReplacer
245 (deprecated in 1.32) have been removed. Closures should be used instead.
246 * OutputPage::addWikiText(), ::addWikiTextWithTitle(), ::addWikiTextTitleTidy(),
247 ::addWikiTextTidy(), ::addWikiTextTitle(), deprecated in 1.32, have been
248 removed.
249 * The $wgUseKeyHeader configuration option and the OutputPage::getKeyHeader()
250 method, deprecated in 1.32, have been removed.
251 * WebInstallerOutput::addWikiText(), deprecated in 1.32, has been removed.
252 * Parser::fetchFile(), deprecated in 1.32, has been removed. Use the method
253 Parser::fetchFileAndTitle() instead.
254 * The global function wfBCP47, deprecated in 1.31, has been removed.
255 * wfCountDown() function, deprecated in 1.31, has been removed. Use
256 \Maintenance::countDown() method instead.
257 * OutputPage::wrapWikiMsg() no longer accepts an options parameter. This was
258 deprecated since 1.20.
259 * Skin::outputPage() no longer accepts a context. This was deprecated in 1.20.
260 * Linker::link() no longer accepts a string for the query array, as was
261 deprecated in 1.20.
262 * PrefixSearch::titleSearch(), deprecated in 1.23, has been removed. Use the
263 SearchEngine::defaultPrefixSearch or ::completionSearch() methods instead.
264 * The UserRights hook, deprecated in 1.26, has been removed. Instead, use the
265 UserGroupsChanged hook.
266 * Skin::getDefaultInstance(), deprecated in 1.27, has been removed. Get the
267 instance from MediaWikiServices instead.
268 * The UserLoadFromSession hook, deprecated in 1.27, has been removed.
269 * The wfResetSessionID global function, deprecated in 1.27, has been removed.
270 Use MediaWiki\Session\SessionManager instead.
271 * The wfGetLBFactory global function, deprecated in 1.27, has been removed.
272 Use MediaWikiServices::getInstance()->getDBLoadBalancerFactory().
273 * The internal method OutputPage->addScriptFile() will no longer silently drop
274 calls that use an invalid path (i.e., something other than an absolute path,
275 protocol-relative URL, or full scheme URL), and will instead pass them to the
276 client where they will likely 404. This usage was deprecated in 1.24.
277 * Database::reportConnectionError, deprecated in 1.32, has been removed.
278 * APIEditBeforeSave hook, deprecated in 1.28, has been removed. Please see
279 EditFilterMergedContent hook for an alternative way to use this feature.
280 * API module methods getDescription(), getParamDescription(), & getExamples(),
281 all deprecated in 1.25 and ignored, have been removed.
282 * The API module method getDescriptionMessage(), deprecated in 1.30, has been
283 removed.
284 * The JavaScript global variable wgLoadScript has been removed. Use
285 mw.util.wikiScript( 'load' ) instead.
286 * ResourceLoader no longer creates the 'mw.legacy' placeholder object. It has
287 been unused since 1.16 and was deprecated in 1.22. To deprecate a property
288 in JavaScript, use mw.log.deprecate() instead.
289 * The 'user.groups' module, deprecated in 1.28, was removed.
290 Use the 'user' module instead.
291 * The ability to override User::$mRights has been removed. Use
292 PermissionManager::addTemporaryUserRights() instead.
293 * Previously, when iterating ResultWrapper with foreach() or a similar
294 construct, the range of the index was 1..numRows. This has been fixed to be
295 0..(numRows-1).
296 * The ChangePasswordForm hook, deprecated in 1.27, has been removed. Use the
297 AuthChangeFormFields hook or security levels instead.
298 * WikiMap::getWikiIdFromDomain(), deprecated in 1.33, has been removed.
299 Use WikiMap::getWikiIdFromDbDomain() instead.
300 * The config variables $wgHtml5, $wgJsMimeType, and $wgXhtmlDefaultNamespace,
301 which were deprecated and ignored by core since 1.22, are no longer set to any
302 value, and SkinTemplate no longer emits a 'jsmimetype' key. Any extensions not
303 updated since 2013 to cope with this deprecation may now break.
304 * (T222637) Passing ResourceLoaderModule objects to ResourceLoader::register()
305 or $wgResourceModules is no longer supported.
306 Use the 'class' or 'factory' option of the array format instead.
307 * The parameter $lang of the functions generateTOC and tocList in Linker and
308 DummyLinker must be in type Language when present. Other types are
309 deprecated since 1.33.
310 * The static properties mw.Api.errors and mw.Api.warnings, deprecated in 1.29,
311 have been removed.
312 * ParserOption::getSpeculativeRevIdCallback(), deprecated in 1.28, has been
313 removed.
314 * The UploadVerification hook, deprecated in 1.28, has been removed. Instead,
315 use the UploadVerifyFile hook.
316 * UploadBase:: and UploadFromChunks::stashFileGetKey() and stashSession(),
317 deprecated in 1.28, have been removed. Instead, please use the getFileKey()
318 method on the response from doStashFile().
319 * LBFactory::setDomainPrefix() and LoadBalancer::setDomainPrefix(), deprecated
320 in 1.33, have been removed. Use setLocalDomainPrefix() instead.
321 * IDatabase::implicitGroupby(), deprecated in 1.30, has been removed.
322 * IDatabase::doneWrites(), deprecated in 1.31, has been removed.
323 Use IDatabase::lastDoneWrites() instead.
324 * Database::reportConnectionError(), deprecated in 1.32, has been removed.
325 * LoadBalancer::laggedSlaveUsed(), deprecated in 1.28, has been removed.
326 Use LoadBalancer::laggedReplicaUsed() instead.
327 * Database::getProperty(), deprecated in 1.28, has been removed.
328 * IDatabase::getWikiId(), deprecated in 1.30, has been removed.
329 Use IDatabase::getDomainID() instead.
330 * …
331
332 === Deprecations in 1.34 ===
333 * The MWNamespace class is deprecated. Use NamespaceInfo.
334 * ExtensionRegistry->load() is deprecated, as it breaks dependency checking.
335 Instead, use ->queue().
336 * User::isBlocked() is deprecated since it does not tell you if the user is
337 blocked from editing a particular page. Use User::getBlock() or
338 PermissionManager::isBlockedFrom() or PermissionManager::userCan() instead.
339 * User::isLocallyBlockedProxy and User::inDnsBlacklist are deprecated and moved
340 to the BlockManager as private helper methods.
341 * User::isDnsBlacklisted is deprecated. Use BlockManager::isDnsBlacklisted
342 instead.
343 * The Config argument to ChangesListSpecialPage::checkStructuredFilterUiEnabled
344 is deprecated. Pass only the User argument.
345 * WatchedItem::getUser is deprecated. Use getUserIdentity.
346 * Passing a Title as the first parameter to the getTimestampById method of
347 RevisionStore is deprecated. Omit it, passing only the remaining parameters.
348 * Title::getPreviousRevisionId and Title::getNextRevisionId are deprecated. Use
349 RevisionLookup::getPreviousRevision and RevisionLookup::getNextRevision.
350 * The Title parameter to RevisionLookup::getPreviousRevision and
351 RevisionLookup::getNextRevision is deprecated and should be omitted.
352 * MWHttpRequest::factory is deprecated. Use HttpRequestFactory.
353 * The Http class is deprecated. For the request, get, and post methods, use
354 HttpRequestFactory. For isValidURI, use MWHttpRequest::isValidURI. For
355 getProxy, use (string)$wgHTTPProxy. For createMultiClient, construct a
356 MultiHttpClient directly.
357 * Http::$httpEngine is deprecated and has no replacement. The default 'guzzle'
358 engine will eventually be made the only engine for HTTP requests.
359 * RepoGroup::singleton(), RepoGroup::destroySingleton(),
360 RepoGroup::setSingleton(), wfFindFile(), and wfLocalFile() are all
361 deprecated. Use MediaWikiServices instead.
362 * The getSubjectPage, getTalkPage, and getOtherPage of Title are deprecated.
363 Use NamespaceInfo's getSubjectPage, getTalkPage, and getAssociatedPage.
364 * MWMessagePack class, no longer used, has been deprecated in 1.34.
365 * The Block class is separated into DatabaseBlock (for blocks stored in the
366 database), and SystemBlock (for temporary blocks created by the system).
367 SystemBlock should be used when creating any temporary blocks. Block is
368 a deprecated alias for DatabaseBlock.
369 * Parser::$mConf is deprecated. It will be removed entirely in a later version.
370 Some context can be found at T224165.
371 * Constructing Parser directly is deprecated. Obtain one from ParserFactory.
372 * Title::moveSubpages is deprecated. Use MovePage::moveSubpages or
373 MovePage::moveSubpagesIfAllowed.
374 * The MWNamespace class is deprecated. Use MediaWikiServices::getNamespaceInfo.
375 * (T62260) Hard deprecate Language::getExtraUserToggles() method.
376 * Language::viewPrevNext function is deprecated, use
377 PrevNextNavigationRenderer::buildPrevNextNavigation instead
378 * User::trackBlockWithCookie and DatabaseBlock::clearCookie are deprecated. Use
379 BlockManager::trackBlockWithCookie and BlockManager::clearCookie instead.
380 * DatabaseBlock::setCookie, DatabaseBlock::getCookieValue,
381 DatabaseBlock::getIdFromCookieValue and AbstractBlock::shouldTrackWithCookie
382 are moved to internal helper methods for BlockManager::trackBlockWithCookie.
383 * ResourceLoaderContext::getConfig and ResourceLoaderContext::getLogger have
384 been deprecated. Inside ResourceLoaderModule subclasses, use the local methods
385 instead. Elsewhere, use the methods from the ResourceLoader class.
386 * The Preprocessor_DOM implementation has been deprecated. It will be
387 removed in a future release. Use the Preprocessor_Hash implementation
388 instead.
389 * Sanitizer::attributeWhitelist() and Sanitizer::setupAttributeWhitelist()
390 have been deprecated; they will be made private in the future.
391 * SearchResult::termMatches() method is deprecated. It was unreliable because
392 only populated by few search engine implementations. Use
393 SqlSearchResult::getTermMatches() if really needed.
394 * SearchResult::getTextSnippet( $terms ) the $terms param is being deprecated
395 and should no longer be passed. Search engine implemenations should be
396 responsible for carrying relevant information needed for highlighting with
397 their own SearchResultSet/SearchResult sub-classes.
398 * SearchResultSet::free() method is deprecated.
399 * SearchEngine::$searchTerms protected field is deprecated. Moved to
400 SearchDatabase.
401 * The use of the $terms param in the ShowSearchHit and ShowSearchHitTitle
402 hooks is highly discouraged as it's only populated by SearchDatabase search
403 engines.
404 * Skin::escapeSearchLink() is deprecated. Use Skin::getSearchLink() or the skin
405 template option 'searchaction' instead.
406 * LoadBalancer::haveIndex() and LoadBalancer::isNonZeroLoad() have
407 been deprecated.
408 * User::getRights() and User::$mRights have been deprecated. Use
409 PermissionManager::getUserPermissions() instead.
410 * The LocalisationCacheRecache hook no longer allows purging of message blobs
411 to be prevented. Modifying the $purgeBlobs parameter now has no effect.
412 * The use of $wgProxyList with IP addresses in the array keys, deprecated in
413 1.30, was removed. Instead, $wgProxyList should be an array with IP addresses
414 as the values, or a string path to a file containing one IP address per line.
415
416 === Other changes in 1.34 ===
417 * …
418
419 == Compatibility ==
420 MediaWiki 1.34 requires PHP 7.0.13 or later. Although HHVM 3.18.5 or later is
421 supported, it is generally advised to use PHP 7.0.13 or later for long term
422 support.
423
424 MySQL/MariaDB is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used,
425 but support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for
426 Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
427
428 The supported versions are:
429
430 * MySQL 5.5.8 or later
431 * PostgreSQL 9.2 or later
432 * SQLite 3.8.0 or later
433 * Oracle 9.0.1 or later
434 * Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (9.00.1399)
435
436 == Online documentation ==
437 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is available on
438 MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except
439 for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain):
440
441 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Documentation
442
443 == Mailing list ==
444 A mailing list is available for MediaWiki user support and discussion:
445
446 https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
447
448 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
449
450 https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
451
452 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
453 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
454
455 == IRC help ==
456 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net.