MediaWiki 1.30 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in
production.
+=== MySQL version requirement in 1.30 ===
+As of 1.30, MediaWiki now requires MySQL 5.5.8 or higher (see Compatibility
+section).
+
=== Configuration changes in 1.30 ===
* The "C.UTF-8" locale should be used for $wgShellLocale, if available, to avoid
unexpected behavior when code uses locale-sensitive string comparisons. For
array. This allows dependency injection to be used for ResourceLoader modules.
* $wgExceptionHooks has been removed.
* (T45547) $wgUsePigLatinVariant added (off by default).
+* (T152540) MediaWiki now supports a section ID escaping style that allows to display
+ non-Latin characters verbatim on many modern browsers. This is controlled by the
+ new configuration setting, $wgFragmentMode.
+* $wgExperimentalHtmlIds is now deprecated and will be removed in a future version,
+ 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.
=== New features in 1.30 ===
* (T37247) Output from Parser::parse() will now be wrapped in a div with
enabled by setting $wgUsePigLatinVariant to true.
* Added RecentChangesPurgeRows hook to allow extensions to purge data that
depends on the recentchanges table.
+* Added JS config values wgDiffOldId/wgDiffNewId to the output of diff pages.
=== Languages updated in 1.30 ===
* Support for kbp (Kabɩyɛ / Kabiyè) was added.
+* Support for skr (Saraiki, سرائیکی) was added.
=== External library changes in 1.30 ===
==== Upgraded external libraries ====
* mediawiki/mediawiki-codesniffer updated to 0.8.1.
+* wikimedia/composer-merge-plugin updated to 1.4.1.
==== New external libraries ====
* The class \TestingAccessWrapper has been moved to the external library
MediaWikiServices instead. Access to the underlying BagOStuff is possible
through the new ParserCache::getCacheStorage() method.
* .mw-ui-constructive CSS class (deprecated in 1.27) was removed.
+* Sanitizer::escapeId() was deprecated, use escapeIdForAttribute(),
+ escapeIdForLink() or escapeIdForExternalInterwiki() instead.
+* Title::escapeFragmentForURL() was deprecated, use one of the aforementioned
+ Sanitizer functions or, if possible, Title::getFragmentForURL().
+* Second parameter to Sanitizer::escapeIdReferenceList() ($options) now does
+ nothing and is deprecated.
+* mw.util.escapeId() was deprecated, use escapeIdForAttribute() or
+ escapeIdForLink().
== Compatibility ==
MediaWiki 1.30 requires PHP 5.5.9 or later. There is experimental support for
The supported versions are:
-* MySQL 5.0.3 or later
+* MySQL 5.5.8 or later
* PostgreSQL 8.3 or later
* SQLite 3.3.7 or later
* Oracle 9.0.1 or later