* (T138166) Added ability for users to prohibit other users from sending them
emails with Special:Emailuser. Can be enabled by setting
$wgEnableUserEmailBlacklist to true.
+* (T67297) $wgBrowserBlacklist is deprecated, and changing it will have no effect.
+ Instead, users using browsers that do not support Unicode will be unable to edit
+ and should upgrade to a modern browser instead.
=== External library changes in 1.30 ===
RunningStat\RunningStat should be used instead.
* MWMemcached and MemCachedClientforWiki classes (deprecated in 1.27) were removed.
The MemcachedClient class should be used instead.
-* EditPage::isOouiEnabled() is deprecated and will always return true.
-* EditPage::getSummaryInput() and ::getSummaryInputOOUI() are deprecated. Please
- use ::getSummaryInputWidget() instead.
-* EditPage::getCheckboxes() and ::getCheckboxesOOUI() are deprecated. Please
- use ::getCheckboxesWidget() instead.
+* EditPage underwent some refactoring and deprecations:
+ * EditPage::isOouiEnabled() is deprecated and will always return true.
+ * EditPage::getSummaryInput() and ::getSummaryInputOOUI() are deprecated. Please
+ use ::getSummaryInputWidget() instead.
+ * EditPage::getCheckboxes() and ::getCheckboxesOOUI() are deprecated. Please
+ use ::getCheckboxesWidget() instead.
+ * Creating an EditPage instance without calling EditPage::setContextTitle() should
+ be avoided and will be deprecated in a future release.
+ * EditPage::safeUnicodeInput() and ::safeUnicodeOutput() are deprecated and no-ops.
+ * EditPage::$isCssJsSubpage, ::$isCssSubpage, and ::$isJsSubpage are deprecated. The
+ corresponding methods from Title should be used instead.
+ * EditPage::$isWrongCaseCssJsPage is deprecated. There is no replacement.
+ * EditPage::$mArticle and ::$mTitle are deprecated for public usage. The getters
+ ::getArticle() and ::getTitle() should be used instead.
+ * Trying to control or fake EditPage context by overriding $wgUser, $wgRequest, $wgOut,
+ and $wgLang is no longer supported and won't work. The IContextSource returned from
+ EditPage::getContext() must be modified instead.
* 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,
* DB_SLAVE is deprecated. DB_REPLICA should be used instead.
* wfUsePHP() is deprecated.
* wfFixSessionID() was removed.
-* wfShellExec() and related functions are deprecated, use Shell::command().
+* wfShellExec() and related functions are deprecated, use Shell::command(). This also
+ slightly changes the behavior of how execution time limits are calculated when only
+ some of defaults are overridden per-call. When in doubt, always override both wall
+ clock and CPU time.
* (T138166) SpecialEmailUser::getTarget() now requires a second argument, the sending
user object. Using the method without the second argument is deprecated.
+* (T67297) Browsers that don't support Unicode will have their edits rejected.
== Compatibility ==
MediaWiki 1.30 requires PHP 5.5.9 or later. There is experimental support for