use $wgFragmentMode to migrate off it to a modern alternative.
* $wgExternalInterwikiFragmentMode was introduced to control how fragments in
sinterwikis going outside of current wiki farm are encoded.
+* (T120333) Soft-deprecated the use of PHP extension 'mysql' in favor of 'mysqli'.
+ This PHP extension was deprecated in PHP 5.5 and removed in PHP 7.0. MediaWiki
+ auto-selects the 'mysqli' driver since MediaWiki 1.22, except if explicitly
+ requested through the configuration parameter $wgDBservers.
+* $wgOOUIEditPage was removed, as it is now the default. This was documented as a
+ temporary variable during the migration period.
=== New features in 1.30 ===
* (T37247) Output from Parser::parse() will now be wrapped in a div with
* Added RecentChangesPurgeRows hook to allow extensions to purge data that
depends on the recentchanges table.
* Added JS config values wgDiffOldId/wgDiffNewId to the output of diff pages.
-
-=== Languages updated in 1.30 ===
-
-* Support for kbp (Kabɩyɛ / Kabiyè) was added.
-* Support for skr (Saraiki, سرائیکی) was added.
+* (T2424) Added direct unwatch links to entries in Special:Watchlist (if the
+ 'watchlistunwatchlinks' preference option is enabled). With JavaScript
+ enabled, these links toggle so the user can also re-watch pages that have
+ just been unwatched.
+* Added $wgParserTestMediaHandlers, where mock media handlers can be passed to
+ MediaHandlerFactory for parser tests.
=== External library changes in 1.30 ===
regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
changes to languages because of Phabricator reports.
-* …
+* Added: kbp (Kabɩyɛ / Kabiyè)
+* Added: skr (Saraiki, سرائیکی)
+* Added: tay (Tayal / Atayal)
==== Pig Latin added ====
* (T45547) Added Pig Latin, a made-up English variant (en-x-piglatin),
nothing and is deprecated.
* mw.util.escapeId() was deprecated, use escapeIdForAttribute() or
escapeIdForLink().
+* MagicWord::replaceMultiple() (deprecated in 1.25) was removed.
+* WikiImporter now requires the second parameter to be an instance of the Config,
+ class. Prior to that, the Config parameter was optional (a behavior deprecated in
+ 1.25).
+* Removed 'jquery.mwExtension' module. (deprecated since 1.26)
+* mediawiki.ui: Deprecate greys, which are not part of WikimediaUI color palette
+ any more.
+* CdbReader, CdbWriter, CdbException classes (deprecated in 1.25) were removed.
+ The namespaced classes in the Cdb namespace should be used instead.
+* IPSet class (deprecated in 1.26) was removed. The namespaced IPSet\IPSet
+ should be used instead.
+* RunningStat class (deprecated in 1.27) was removed. The namespaced
+ RunningStat\RunningStat should be used instead.
+* MWMemcached and MemCachedClientforWiki classes (deprecated in 1.27) were removed.
+ The MemcachedClient class should be used instead.
+* EditPage::isOouiEnabled() is deprecated and will always return true.
+* Parser::getRandomString() (deprecated in 1.26) was removed.
+* Parser::uniqPrefix() (deprecated in 1.26) was removed.
+* Parser::extractTagsAndParams() now only accepts three arguments. The fourth,
+ $uniq_prefix was deprecated in 1.26 and has now been removed.
+* (T172514) The following tables have had their UNIQUE indexes turned into proper
+ PRIMARY KEYs for increased maintainability: categorylinks, imagelinks, iwlinks,
+ langlinks, log_search, module_deps, objectcache, pagelinks, query_cache, site_stats,
+ templatelinks, text, transcache, user_former_groups, user_properties.
== Compatibility ==
MediaWiki 1.30 requires PHP 5.5.9 or later. There is experimental support for