just been unwatched.
* Added $wgParserTestMediaHandlers, where mock media handlers can be passed to
MediaHandlerFactory for parser tests.
-
-=== Languages updated in 1.30 ===
-
-* Support for kbp (Kabɩyɛ / Kabiyè) was added.
-* Support for skr (Saraiki, سرائیکی) was added.
+* Edit summaries, block reasons, and other "comments" are now stored in a
+ separate database table. Use the CommentFormatter class to access them.
+** This is currently gated by $wgCommentTableSchemaMigrationStage. Most wikis
+ can set this to MIGRATION_NEW and run maintenance/migrateComments.php as
+ soon as any necessary extensions are updated.
=== 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),
WikiPage::makeParserOptions() to create the ParserOptions object and only
change options that affect the parser cache key.
* Article::viewRedirect() is deprecated.
+* IP::isValidBlock() was deprecated. Use the equivalent IP::isValidRange().
* DeprecatedGlobal no longer supports passing in a direct value, it requires a
callable factory function or a class name.
* The $parserMemc global, wfGetParserCacheStorage(), and ParserCache::singleton()
* 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.
* 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,
+* 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.
+* IDatabase::nextSequenceValue() is no longer needed by any database backends
+ (formerly it was needed by PostgreSQL and Oracle), and is now deprecated.
== Compatibility ==
MediaWiki 1.30 requires PHP 5.5.9 or later. There is experimental support for