RELEASE-NOTES-1.25

   1 Security reminder: If you have PHP's register_globals option set, you must
   2 turn it off. MediaWiki will not work with it enabled.
   3
   4 == MediaWiki 1.25 ==
   5
   6 THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
   7
   8 MediaWiki 1.25 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in
   9 production.
  10
  11 === Configuration changes in 1.25 ===
  12 * $wgPageShowWatchingUsers was removed.
  13 * $wgLocalVirtualHosts has been added to replace $wgConf->localVHosts.
  14 * $wgAntiLockFlags was removed.
  15 * Edit tokens returned from User::getEditToken may change on every call. Token
  16   validity must be checked by passing the user-supplied token to
  17   User::matchEditToken rather than by testing for equality with a
  18   newly-generated token.
  19 * (bug 72951) The UserGetLanguageObject hook may be passed any IContextSource
  20   for its $context parameter. Formerly it was documented as receiving a
  21   RequestContext specifically.
  22 * Profiling was restructured and $wgProfiler now requires an 'output' parameter.
  23   See StartProfiler.sample for details.
  24 * $wgMangleFlashPolicy was added to make MediaWiki's mangling of anything that
  25   might be a flash policy directive configurable.
  26
  27 === New features in 1.25 ===
  28 * (bug 62861) Updated plural rules to CLDR 26. Includes incompatible changes
  29   for plural forms in Russian, Prussian, Tagalog, Manx and several languages
  30   that fall back to Russian.
  31 * (bug 58139) ResourceLoaderFileModule now supports language fallback
  32   for 'languageScripts'.
  33 * Added a new hook, "ContentAlterParserOutput", to allow extensions to modify the
  34   parser output for a content object before links update.
  35 * (bug 35785) Enhanced recent changes and extended watchlist are now default.
  36   Documentation: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Enhanced_recent_changes
  37   and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgDefaultUserOptions.
  38 * (bug 67341) SVG images will no longer be base64-encoded when being embedded
  39   in CSS. This results in slight size increase before gzip compression (due to
  40   percent-encoding), but up to 20% decrease after it.
  41 * Upgrade jStorage to v0.4.12.
  42 * MediaWiki now natively supports page status indicators: icons (or short text
  43   snippets) usually displayed in the top-right corner of the page. They have
  44   been in use on Wikipedia for a long time, implemented using templates and CSS
  45   absolute positioning.
  46   - Basic wikitext syntax: <indicator name="foo">[[File:Foo.svg|20px]]</indicator>
  47   - Usage instructions: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Page_status_indicators
  48   - Adjusting custom skins to support indicators:
  49     https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skinning#Page_status_indicators
  50 * Edit tokens may now be time-limited: passing a maximum age to
  51   User::matchEditToken will reject any older tokens.
  52 * The debug logging internals have been overhauled, and are now using the
  53   PSR-3 interfaces.
  54
  55 === Bug fixes in 1.25 ===
  56 * (bug 71003) No additional code will be generated to try to load CSS-embedded
  57   SVG images in Internet Explorer 6 and 7, as they don't support them anyway.
  58 * (bug 67021) On Special:BookSources, corrected validation of ISBNs (both
  59   10- and 13-digit forms) containing "X".
  60 * Page moving was refactored into a MovePage class. As part of that:
  61 ** The AbortMove hook was removed.
  62 ** MovePageIsValidMove is for extensions to specify whether a page
  63    cannot be moved for technical reasons, and should not be overriden.
  64 ** MovePageCheckPermissions is for checking whether the given user is
  65    allowed to make the move.
  66 ** Title::moveNoAuth() was deprecated. Use the MovePage class instead.
  67 ** Title::moveTo() was deprecated. Use the MovePage class instead.
  68 ** Title::isValidMoveOperation() broken down into MovePage::isValidMove()
  69    and MovePage::checkPermissions().
  70
  71 === Action API changes in 1.25 ===
  72 * (bug 65403) XML tag highlighting is now only performed for formats
  73   "xmlfm" and "wddxfm".
  74 * action=paraminfo supports generalized submodules (modules=query+value),
  75   querymodules and formatmodules are deprecated
  76 * action=paraminfo no longer outputs descriptions and other help text by
  77   default. If needed, it may be requested using the new 'helpformat' parameter.
  78 * action=help has been completely rewritten, and outputs help in HTML
  79   rather than plain text.
  80 * Hitting api.php without specifying an action now displays only the help for
  81   the main module, with links to submodule help.
  82 * API help is no longer displayed on errors.
  83 * 'uselang' is now a recognized API parameter; "uselang=user" may be used to
  84   explicitly select the language from the current user's preferences, and
  85   "uselang=content" may be used to select the wiki's content language.
  86 * Default output format for the API is now jsonfm.
  87 * Simplified continuation will return a "batchcomplete" property in the result
  88   when a batch of pages is complete.
  89 * Pretty-printed HTML output now has nicer formatting and (if available)
  90   better syntax highlighting.
  91 * Deprecated list=deletedrevs in favor of newly-added prop=deletedrevisions and
  92   list=alldeletedrevisions.
  93 * prop=revisions will gracefully continue when given too many revids or titles,
  94   rather than just ignoring the extras.
  95 * prop=revisions will no longer die if rvcontentformat doesn't match a
  96   revision's content model; it will instead warn and omit the content.
  97 * If the user has the 'deletedhistory' right, action=query's revids parameter
  98   will now recognize deleted revids.
  99 * prop=revisions may be used as a generator, generating revids.
 100
 101 === Action API internal changes in 1.25 ===
 102 * ApiHelp has been rewritten to support i18n and paginated HTML output.
 103   Most existing modules should continue working without changes, but should do
 104   the following:
 105   * Add an i18n message "apihelp-{$moduleName}-description" to replace getDescription().
 106   * Add i18n messages "apihelp-{$moduleName}-param-{$param}" for each parameter
 107     to replace getParamDescription(). If necessary, the settings array returned
 108     by getParams() can use the new ApiBase::PARAM_HELP_MSG key to override the
 109     message.
 110   * Implement getExamplesMessages() to replace getExamples().
 111 * Modules with submodules (like action=query) must have their submodules
 112   override ApiBase::getParent() to return the correct parent object.
 113 * The 'APIGetDescription' and 'APIGetParamDescription' hooks are deprecated,
 114   and will have no effect for modules using i18n messages. Use
 115   'APIGetDescriptionMessages' and 'APIGetParamDescriptionMessages' instead.
 116 * Api formatters will no longer be asked to display the help screen on errors.
 117 * ApiMain::getCredits() was removed. The credits are available in the
 118   'api-credits' i18n message.
 119 * ApiFormatBase has been changed to support i18n and syntax highlighting via
 120   extensions with the new 'ApiFormatHighlight' hook. Core syntax highlighting
 121   has been removed.
 122 * ApiFormatBase now always buffers. Output is done when
 123   ApiFormatBase::closePrinter is called.
 124 * Much of the logic in ApiQueryRevisions has been split into ApiQueryRevisionsBase.
 125 * The 'revids' parameter supplied by ApiPageSet will now count deleted
 126   revisions as "good" if the user has the 'deletedhistory' right. New methods
 127   ApiPageSet::getLiveRevisionIDs() and ApiPageSet::getDeletedRevisionIDs() are
 128   provided to access just the live or just the deleted revids.
 129 * The following methods have been deprecated and may be removed in a future
 130   release:
 131   * ApiBase::getDescription
 132   * ApiBase::getParamDescription
 133   * ApiBase::getExamples
 134   * ApiBase::makeHelpMsg
 135   * ApiBase::makeHelpArrayToString
 136   * ApiBase::makeHelpMsgParameters
 137   * ApiFormatBase::setUnescapeAmps
 138   * ApiFormatBase::getWantsHelp
 139   * ApiFormatBase::setHelp
 140   * ApiFormatBase::formatHTML
 141   * ApiFormatBase::setBufferResult
 142   * ApiFormatBase::getDescription
 143   * ApiMain::setHelp
 144   * ApiMain::reallyMakeHelpMsg
 145   * ApiMain::makeHelpMsgHeader
 146   * ApiQueryImageInfo::getPropertyDescriptions
 147 * The following classes have been deprecated and may be removed in a future
 148   release:
 149   * ApiQueryDeletedrevs
 150
 151 === Languages updated in 1.25 ===
 152
 153 MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated
 154 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
 155 changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
 156
 157 * (bug 64440) Kazakh (kk) wikis should no longer forcefully reset the user's
 158   interface language to kk where unexpected.
 159
 160 === Other changes in 1.25 ===
 161 * The skin autodiscovery mechanism, deprecated in MediaWiki 1.23, has been
 162   removed. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skin_autodiscovery for
 163   migration guide for creators and users of custom skins that relied on it.
 164 * Javascript variable 'wgFileCanRotate' now only available on Special:Upload.
 165 * (bug 56257) Set site logo from mediawiki.skinning.interface module instead of
 166   inline styles in the HTML.
 167 * Removed ApiQueryUsers::getAutoGroups(). (deprecated since 1.20)
 168 * Removed XmlDumpWriter::schemaVersion(). (deprecated since 1.20)
 169 * Removed LogEventsList::getDisplayTitle(). (deprecated since 1.20)
 170 * Removed Preferences::trySetUserEmail(). (deprecated since 1.20)
 171 * Removed mw.user.name() and mw.user.anonymous() methods. (deprecated since 1.20)
 172 * Removed 'ok' and 'err' parameters in the mediawiki.api modules. (deprecated
 173   since 1.20)
 174 * Removed 'async' parameter from the  mw.Api#getCategories() method. (deprecated
 175   since 1.20)
 176 * Removed 'jquery.json' module. (deprecated since 1.24)
 177   Use the 'json' module and global JSON object instead.
 178 * Deprecated OutputPage::readOnlyPage() and OutputPage::rateLimited().
 179   Also, the former will now throw an MWException if called with one or more
 180   arguments.
 181 * Removed hitcounters and associated code.
 182 * The "temp" zone of the upload respository is now considered private. If it
 183   already exists (such as under the images/ directory), please make sure that
 184   the directory is not web readable (e.g. via a .htaccess file).
 185 * BREAKING CHANGE: In the XML dump format used by Special:Export and
 186   dumpBackup.php, the <model> and <format> tags now apprear before the <text>
 187   tag, instead of after the <text> and <sha1> tags.
 188   The new schema version is 0.10, the new schema URI is
 189   <https://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.10.xsd>.
 190 * MWFunction::call() and MWFunction::callArray() were removed, having being
 191   deprecated in 1.22.
 192 * Deprecated the getInternalLinkAttributes, getInternalLinkAttributesObj,
 193   and getInternalLinkAttributes methods in Linker, and removed
 194   getExternalLinkAttributes method, which was deprecated in MediaWiki 1.18.
 195
 196 == Compatibility ==
 197
 198 MediaWiki 1.25 requires PHP 5.3.3 or later. There is experimental support for
 199 HHVM 3.3.0.
 200
 201 MySQL is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used, but
 202 support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for
 203 Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
 204
 205 The supported versions are:
 206
 207 * MySQL 5.0.2 or later
 208 * PostgreSQL 8.3 or later
 209 * SQLite 3.3.7 or later
 210 * Oracle 9.0.1 or later
 211 * Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (9.00.1399)
 212
 213 == Upgrading ==
 214
 215 1.25 has several database changes since 1.24, and will not work without schema
 216 updates. Note that due to changes to some very large tables like the revision
 217 table, the schema update may take quite long (minutes on a medium sized site,
 218 many hours on a large site).
 219
 220 If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons
 221 repository, make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise
 222 due to database schema changes.
 223
 224 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
 225 new database fields are filled with data.
 226
 227 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, you should upgrade to
 228 1.5 first. The upgrade script maintenance/upgrade1_5.php has been removed
 229 with MediaWiki 1.21.
 230
 231 Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
 232
 233 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
 234
 235 For notes on 1.23.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
 236
 237 == Online documentation ==
 238
 239 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is available on
 240 MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except
 241 for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain):
 242
 243         https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
 244
 245 == Mailing list ==
 246
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 250
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 252
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 254
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 256 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
 257
 258 == IRC help ==
 259
 260 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net.