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1 == MediaWiki 1.29 ==
2
3 THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
4
5 MediaWiki 1.29 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in
6 production.
7
8 === Configuration changes in 1.29 ===
9 * Default cookie expiration time has been reduced to 30 days. Login cookie
10 expiration time is kept at 180 days.
11 * A new configuration variable has been added: $wgCookieSetOnAutoblock. This
12 determines whether to set a cookie when a user is autoblocked. Doing so means
13 that a blocked user, even after logging out and moving to a new IP address,
14 will still be blocked.
15 * The resetpassword right and associated password reset capture feature has
16 been removed.
17 * The $error parameter to the EmailUser hook should be set to a Status object
18 or boolean false. This should be compatible with at least MediaWiki 1.23 if
19 not earlier. Returning a raw HTML string is now deprecated.
20 * The $message parameter to the ApiCheckCanExecute hook should be set to an
21 ApiMessage. This is compatible with MediaWiki 1.27 and later. Returning a
22 code for ApiBase::parseMsg() will no longer work.
23 * ApiBase::$messageMap is no longer public. Code attempting to access it will
24 result in a PHP fatal error.
25 * $wgUserEmailUseReplyTo is now true by default to work around restrictive DMARC
26 policies.
27 * Subpages are now enabled by default in the Template namespace. Set
28 $wgNamespacesWithSubpages[NS_TEMPLATE] to false to keep the old behavior.
29 * $wgRunJobsAsync is now false by default (T142751). This change only affects
30 wikis with $wgJobRunRate > 0.
31 * A temporary feature flag, $wgDisableUserGroupExpiry, is provided to disable
32 new features that rely on the schema changes to the user_groups table. This
33 feature flag will likely be removed before 1.29 is released.
34 * (T158474) "Unknown user" has been added to $wgReservedUsernames.
35 * (T156983) $wgRateLimitsExcludedIPs now accepts CIDR ranges as well as single IPs.
36 * $wgDummyLanguageCodes is deprecated. Additional language code mappings may be
37 added to $wgExtraLanguageCodes instead.
38 * (T161453) LocalisationCache will no longer use the temporary directory in it's
39 fallback chain when trying to work out where to write the cache.
40 * The user right 'editusercssjs' (deprecated in 1.16) was removed. Use
41 'editusercss' and 'edituserjs' in $wgGroupPermissions and elsewhere instead.
42
43 === New features in 1.29 ===
44 * (T5233) A cookie can now be set when a user is autoblocked, to track that user
45 if they move to a new IP address. This is disabled by default.
46 * Added ILocalizedException interface to standardize the use of localized
47 exceptions, largely so the API can handle them more sensibly.
48 * Blocks created automatically by MediaWiki, such as for configured proxies or
49 dnsbls, are now indicated as such and use a new i18n message when displayed.
50 * Added new $wgHTTPImportTimeout setting. Sets timeout for
51 downloading the XML dump during a transwiki import in seconds.
52 * Parser limit report is now available in machine-readable format to JavaScript
53 via mw.config.get('wgPageParseReport').
54 * Added $wgSoftBlockRanges, to allow for automatically blocking anonymous edits
55 from certain IP ranges (e.g. private IPs).
56 * (T59603) Added new magic word {{PAGELANGUAGE}} which returns the language code
57 of the page being parsed.
58 * HTML5 form validation attributes will no longer be suppressed. Originally
59 browsers had poor support for them, but modern browsers handle them fine.
60 This might affect some forms that used them and only worked because the
61 attributes were not actually being set.
62 * Expiry times can now be specified when users are added to user groups.
63 * Completely new user interface for the RecentChanges page, which
64 structures filters into user-friendly groups. This has corresponding
65 changes to how filters are registered by core and extensions.
66 * The edit form now uses pretty OOjs UI buttons, checkboxes and summary input.
67 Because this change can cause problems for extensions and on-wiki
68 scripts depending on the exact HTML, the old version is still available
69 and can be used by setting $wgOOUIEditPage = false; in LocalSettings.php.
70 This will be removed later and OOjs UI will become the only option.
71 To make testing easier, users can also force either mode by adding
72 &ooui=true or &ooui=false to the action=edit URL.
73
74 === External library changes in 1.29 ===
75
76 ==== Upgraded external libraries ====
77 * Updated QUnit from v1.22.0 to v1.23.1.
78 * Updated cssjanus from v1.1.2 to v1.2.0.
79 * Updated psr/log from v1.0.0 to v1.0.2.
80 * Update Moment.js from v2.8.4 to v2.15.0.
81 * Updated oyejorge/less.php from v1.7.0.10 to v1.7.0.14.
82 * Updated monolog from v1.18.2 to 1.22.1.
83 * Updated wikimedia/composer-merge-plugin from v1.3.1 to v1.4.0.
84 * Updated OOjs from v1.1.10 to v2.0.0.
85 * Updated jQuery from v1.11.3 to v3.2.1 (including jQuery Migrate v3.0.0).
86
87 ==== New external libraries ====
88 * Added wikimedia/timestamp v1.0.0.
89 * Added wikimedia/remex-html v1.0.1.
90
91 ==== Removed and replaced external libraries ====
92
93 === Bug fixes in 1.29 ===
94 * (T62604) Core parser functions returning a number now format the number according
95 to the page content language, not wiki content language.
96 * (T27187) Search suggestions based on jquery.suggestions will now correctly only
97 highlight prefix matches in the results.
98 * (T157035) "new mw.Uri()" was ignoring options when using default URI.
99 * Special:Allpages can no longer be filtered by redirect in miser mode.
100 * (T160519) CACHE_ANYTHING will not be CACHE_ACCEL if no accelerator is installed.
101 * (T109140) (T122209) SECURITY: Special:UserLogin and Special:Search allow redirect
102 to interwiki links.
103 * (T144845) SECURITY: XSS in SearchHighlighter::highlightText() when
104 $wgAdvancedSearchHighlighting is true.
105 * (T125177) SECURITY: API parameters may now be marked as "sensitive" to keep
106 their values out of the logs.
107 * (T150044) SECURITY: "Mark all pages visited" on the watchlist now requires a CSRF
108 token.
109 * (T156184) SECURITY: Escape content model/format url parameter in message.
110 * (T151735) SECURITY: SVG filter evasion using default attribute values in DTD
111 declaration.
112 * (T161453) SECURITY: LocalisationCache will no longer use the temporary directory
113 in it's fallback chain when trying to work out where to write the cache.
114 * (T48143) SECURITY: Spam blacklist ineffective on encoded URLs inside file inclusion
115 syntax's link parameter.
116 * (T108138) SECURITY: Sysops can undelete pages, although the page is protected against
117 it.
118
119 === Action API changes in 1.29 ===
120 * Submitting sensitive authentication request parameters to action=login,
121 action=clientlogin, action=createaccount, action=linkaccount, and
122 action=changeauthenticationdata in the query string is now an error. They
123 should be submitted in the POST body instead.
124 * The capture option for action=resetpassword has been removed
125 * action=clearhasmsg now requires a POST.
126 * (T47843) API errors and warnings may be requested in non-English languages
127 using the new 'errorformat', 'errorlang', and 'errorsuselocal' parameters.
128 * API error codes may have changed. Most notably, errors from modules using
129 parameter prefixes (e.g. all query submodules) will no longer be prefixed.
130 * ApiPageSet-using modules will report the 'invalidreason' using the specified
131 'errorformat'.
132 * action=emailuser may return a "Warnings" status, and now returns 'warnings' and
133 'errors' subelements (as applicable) instead of 'message'.
134 * action=imagerotate returns an 'errors' subelement rather than 'errormessage'.
135 * action=move now reports errors when moving the talk page as an array under
136 key 'talkmove-errors', rather than using 'talkmove-error-code' and
137 'talkmove-error-info'. The format for subpage move errors has also changed.
138 * action=revisiondelete no longer includes a "rendered" property on warnings
139 and errors for each item. Use errorformat=wikitext if you're wanting parsed
140 output.
141 * action=rollback no longer returns a "messageHtml" property. Use
142 errorformat=html if you're wanting HTML formatting of error messages.
143 * action=upload now reports optional stash failures as an array under key
144 'stasherrors' rather than a 'stashfailed' text string.
145 * action=watch reports 'errors' and 'warnings' instead of a single 'error', and
146 no longer returns a 'message' on success.
147 * Added action=validatepassword to validate passwords for the account creation
148 and password change forms.
149 * action=purge now requires a POST.
150 * There is a new `languagevariants` siprop for action=query&meta=siteinfo,
151 which returns a list of languages with active LanguageConverter instances.
152 * action=query&query=allpages will no longer filter redirects using a database
153 query in miser mode. This may result in less results being returned than were
154 requested.
155
156 === Action API internal changes in 1.29 ===
157 * New methods were added to ApiBase to handle errors and warnings using i18n
158 keys. Methods for using hard-coded English messages were deprecated:
159 * ApiBase::dieUsage() was deprecated
160 * ApiBase::dieUsageMsg() was deprecated
161 * ApiBase::dieUsageMsgOrDebug() was deprecated
162 * ApiBase::getErrorFromStatus() was deprecated
163 * ApiBase::parseMsg() was deprecated
164 * ApiBase::setWarning() was deprecated
165 * ApiBase::$messageMap is no longer public. Code attempting to access it will
166 result in a PHP fatal error.
167 * The $message parameter to the ApiCheckCanExecute hook should be set to an
168 ApiMessage. This is compatible with MediaWiki 1.27 and later. Returning a
169 code for ApiBase::parseMsg() will no longer work.
170 * UsageException is deprecated in favor of ApiUsageException. For the time
171 being ApiUsageException is a subclass of UsageException to allow things that
172 catch only UsageException to still function properly.
173 * If, for some strange reason, code was using an ApiErrorFormatter instead of
174 ApiErrorFormatter_BackCompat, note that the result format has changed and
175 various methods now take a module path rather than a module name.
176 * ApiMessageTrait::getApiCode() now strips 'apierror-' and 'apiwarn-' prefixes
177 from the message key, and maps some message keys for backwards compatibility.
178 * API parameters may now be marked as "sensitive" to keep their values out of
179 the logs.
180
181 === Languages updated in 1.29 ===
182
183 MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated
184 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
185 changes to languages because of Phabricator reports.
186
187 * Based as always on linguistic studies on intelligibility and language
188 knowledge by geography, language fallbacks have been expanded. When a
189 translation is missing in the user's preferred interface language, the
190 corresponding translation for the fallback language will be used instead.
191 English will only be used as last resort when there are no translations.
192 Some configurations (such as date formats and gender namespaces) have also
193 been updated when using the fallback language's configuration was inadequate.
194 The new or reinstated language fallbacks are (after cs ↔ sk in 1.28):
195 ca ↔ oc; hsb ↔ dsb; io → eo; mdf → ru; pnt → el; roa-tara → it; rup → ro;
196 sh → bs, sr-el, hr.
197 * (T137376) New language support: Atikamekw (atj).
198 * (T155957) Talk Namespaces for Javanese language (jv) have been updated.
199
200 ==== No fallback for Ukrainian ====
201 * (T39314) The fallback from Ukrainian to Russian was removed. The Ukrainian
202 language will now use the default fallback language: English. When a translation
203 to Ukrainian is not available, an English string will be shown.
204
205 === Other changes in 1.29 ===
206 * Database::getSearchEngine() (deprecated in 1.28) was removed. Use
207 SearchEngineFactory::getSearchEngineClass() instead.
208 * $wgSessionsInMemcached (deprecated in 1.20) was removed. No replacement is
209 required as all sessions are stored in Object Cache now.
210 * MWHttpRequest::execute() should be considered to return a StatusValue; the
211 Status return type is deprecated.
212 * User::edits() (deprecated in 1.21) was removed.
213 * Xml::escapeJsString() (deprecated in 1.21) was removed.
214 * Article::getText() and Article::prepareTextForEdit() (deprecated in 1.21)
215 were removed.
216 * Article::getAutosummary() and WikiPage::getAutosummary() (deprecated in 1.21)
217 were removed.
218 * Hook ArticleViewCustom (deprecated in 1.21) was removed. Use ArticleContentViewCustom
219 instead.
220 * Hooks EditPageGetDiffText and ShowRawCssJs (deprecated in 1.21) were removed.
221 * Class RevisiondeleteAction (deprecated in 1.25) was removed.
222 * WikiPage::prepareTextForEdit() (deprecated in 1.21) was removed.
223 * WikiPage::getText() (deprecated in 1.21) was removed.
224 * Article::fetchContent() (deprecated in 1.21) was removed.
225 * User::getPassword() (deprecated in 1.27) was removed.
226 * User::getTemporaryPassword() (deprecated in 1.27) was removed.
227 * User::isPasswordReminderThrottled() (deprecated in 1.27) was removed.
228 * Class FSRepo (deprecated in 1.19) was removed.
229 * WebRequest::checkSessionCookie() (deprecated in 1.27) was removed. Use
230 \MediaWiki\Session\SessionManager::singleton()->getPersistedSessionId() instead.
231 * Class ImageGallery (deprecated in 1.22) was removed.
232 Use ImageGalleryBase::factory instead.
233 * Title::moveNoAuth() (deprecated in 1.25) was removed. Use MovePage class instead.
234 * Hook UnknownAction (deprecated in 1.19) was actually deprecated (it will now
235 emit warnings). Create a subclass of Action and add it to $wgActions instead.
236 * WikiRevision::getText() (deprecated since 1.21) is no longer marked deprecated.
237 * Linker::getInterwikiLinkAttributes() (deprecated since 1.25) was removed.
238 * Linker::getInternalLinkAttributes() (deprecated since 1.25) was removed.
239 * Linker::getInternalLinkAttributesObj() (deprecated since 1.25) was removed.
240 * Linker::getLinkAttributesInternal() (deprecated since 1.25) was removed.
241 * RedisConnectionPool::handleException (deprecated since 1.23) was removed.
242 * The static properties mw.Api.errors and mw.Api.warnings, containing incomplete
243 and outdated lists of errors/warnings returned by the API, are now deprecated.
244 * wiki.phtml entry point was removed. Refer to index.php instead. If you want "wiki.phtml"
245 URLs to continue to work, set up redirects. In Apache, this can be done by enabling
246 mod_rewrite and adding the following rules to your configuration:
247
248 RewriteEngine On
249 RewriteBase /
250 RewriteRule ^/w/wiki\.phtml$ /w/index.php [R=301,L]
251 * Hook ArticleAfterFetchContent (deprecated in 1.21) was removed.
252 Use ArticleAfterFetchContentObject instead.
253 * Hook ArticleInsertComplete (deprecated in 1.21) was removed.
254 Use PageContentInsertComplete instead.
255 * Hook ArticleSave (deprecated in 1.21) was removed.
256 Use PageContentSave instead.
257 * Hook ArticleSaveComplete (deprecated in 1.21) was removed.
258 Use PageContentSaveComplete instead.
259 * Hook EditFilterMerged (deprecated in 1.21) was removed.
260 Use EditFilterMergedContent instead.
261 * Hook EditPageGetPreviewText (deprecated in 1.21) was removed.
262 Use EditPageGetPreviewContent instead.
263 * Hook TitleIsCssOrJsPage (deprecated in 1.21) was removed.
264 Use ContentHandlerDefaultModelFor instead.
265 * Hook TitleIsWikitextPage (deprecated in 1.21) was removed.
266 Use ContentHandlerDefaultModelFor instead.
267 * Article::getContent() (deprecated in 1.21) was removed.
268 * Revision::getText() (deprecated in 1.21) was removed.
269 * Article::doEdit() and WikiPage::doEdit() (deprecated in 1.21) were removed.
270 * Parser::replaceUnusualEscapes() (deprecated in 1.24) was removed.
271 * Article::doEditContent() was marked as deprecated, to be removed in 1.30
272 or later.
273 * ContentHandler::runLegacyHooks() was removed.
274 * refreshLinks.php now can be limited to a particular category with --category=...
275 or a tracking category with --tracking-category=...
276 * User-like objects that are passed to SpecialUserRights and its subclasses are
277 now required to have a getGroupMemberships() method. See UserRightsProxy for
278 an example.
279 * User::$mGroups (instance variable) was marked private. Use User::getGroups()
280 instead.
281 * User::getGroupName(), User::getGroupMember(), User:getGroupPage(),
282 User::makeGroupLinkHTML(), and User::makeGroupLinkWiki() were deprecated.
283 Use equivalent methods on the UserGroupMembership class.
284 * Maintenance scripts and tests that call User::addGroup() must now ensure that
285 User objects have been added to the database prior to calling addGroup().
286 * Protected function UsersPager::getGroups() was removed, and protected function
287 UsersPager::buildGroupLink() was changed from a static to an instance method.
288 * The third parameter ($cache) to the UsersPagerDoBatchLookups hook was changed;
289 see docs/hooks.txt.
290 * User::crypt() (deprecated in 1.24) was removed.
291 * User::comparePasswords() (deprecated in 1.24) was removed.
292 * ArchivedFile::getUserText() (deprecated in 1.23) was removed.
293 * HTMLFileCache::newFromTitle() (deprecated in 1.24) was removed.
294 * BREAKING CHANGE: Internal signature changes to ChangesListSpecialPage
295 and subclasses. It should only break if you call buildMainQueryConds
296 (changed to buildQuery with new signature) or doMainQuery (new
297 signature). Subclasses are likely to call at least doMainQuery
298 (possibly both), but other classes might too, because they were
299 public.
300 Also, some related hooks were deprecated, but this is not yet a
301 breaking change.
302 * Removed 'jquery.arrowSteps' module. (deprecated since 1.28)
303 * The 'jquery.autoEllipsis' ResourceLoader module is now deprecated.
304 * WikiRevision::$fileIsTemp was deprecated.
305 * WikiRevision::$importer was deprecated.
306 * WikiRevision::$user was deprecated.
307 * Article::getLastPurgeTimestamp(), WikiPage::getLastPurgeTimestamp(), and the
308 WikiPage::PURGE_* constants are deprecated, and the functions will always
309 return false. They were a hack for an issue that has since been fixed.
310 * Hook 'EditPageBeforeEditChecks' is now deprecated. Instead use the new hook
311 'EditPageGetCheckboxesDefinition', or 'EditPage::showStandardInputs:options'
312 if you don't actually care about checkboxes and just want to add some HTML
313 to the page.
314 * Selflinks are now rendered as href-less <a> tags with the class mw-selflink
315 rather than <strong> tags. The old class name, "selflink", was deprecated
316 and will be removed in a future release. (T160480)
317 * (T156184) $wgRawHtml will no longer apply to internationalization messages.
318 * Browser support for non-ES5 JavaScript browsers, including Android 2,
319 Opera <12.10, and Internet Explorer 9, was lowered from Grade A to Grade C.
320 * Removed wikibits global methods deprecated since MediaWiki 1.17 (T122755):
321 is_gecko, is_chrome_mac, is_chrome, webkit_version, is_safari_win, is_safari,
322 webkit_match, is_ff2, ff2_bugs, is_ff2_win, is_ff2_x11, opera95_bugs,
323 opera7_bugs, opera6_bugs, is_opera_95, is_opera_preseven, is_opera,
324 ie6_bugs, clientPC, changeText, killEvt, addHandler, hookEvent,
325 addClickHandler, removeHandler, getElementsByClassName, getInnerText,
326 setupCheckboxShiftClick, addCheckboxClickHandlers, mwEditButtons,
327 mwCustomEditButtons, injectSpinner, removeSpinner, escapeQuotes,
328 escapeQuotesHTML, jsMsg, addPortletLink, appendCSS, tooltipAccessKeyPrefix,
329 tooltipAccessKeyRegexp, updateTooltipAccessKeys.
330
331 == Compatibility ==
332
333 MediaWiki 1.29 requires PHP 5.5.9 or later. There is experimental support for
334 HHVM 3.6.5 or later.
335
336 MySQL/MariaDB is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used,
337 but support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for
338 Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
339
340 The supported versions are:
341
342 * MySQL 5.0.3 or later
343 * PostgreSQL 8.3 or later
344 * SQLite 3.3.7 or later
345 * Oracle 9.0.1 or later
346 * Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (9.00.1399)
347
348 == Upgrading ==
349
350 1.29 has several database changes since 1.28, and will not work without schema
351 updates. Note that due to changes to some very large tables like the revision
352 table, the schema update may take quite long (minutes on a medium sized site,
353 many hours on a large site).
354
355 Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
356
357 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions, including
358 important information when upgrading from versions prior to 1.11.
359
360 For notes on 1.28.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
361
362 == Online documentation ==
363
364 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is available on
365 MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except
366 for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain):
367
368 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Documentation
369
370 == Mailing list ==
371
372 A mailing list is available for MediaWiki user support and discussion:
373
374 https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
375
376 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
377
378 https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
379
380 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
381 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
382
383 == IRC help ==
384
385 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net.