RELEASE-NOTES-1.29

   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
  32 === New features in 1.29 ===
  33 * (T5233) A cookie can now be set when a user is autoblocked, to track that user
  34   if they move to a new IP address. This is disabled by default.
  35 * Added ILocalizedException interface to standardize the use of localized
  36   exceptions, largely so the API can handle them more sensibly.
  37 * Blocks created automatically by MediaWiki, such as for configured proxies or
  38   dnsbls, are now indicated as such and use a new i18n message when displayed.
  39 * Added new $wgHTTPImportTimeout setting. Sets timeout for
  40   downloading the XML dump during a transwiki import in seconds.
  41 * Parser limit report is now available in machine-readable format to JavaScript
  42   via mw.config.get('wgPageParseReport').
  43 * Added $wgSoftBlockRanges, to allow for automatically blocking anonymous edits
  44   from certain IP ranges (e.g. private IPs).
  45 * (T59603) Added new magic word {{PAGELANGUAGE}} which returns the language code
  46   of the page being parsed.
  47 * Added JavaScript that provides as-you-type suggestions for reason
  48   on the block, delete and protect forms.
  49 * HTML5 form validation attributes will no longer be suppressed. Originally
  50   browsers had poor support for them, but modern browsers handle them fine.
  51   This might affect some forms that used them and only worked because the
  52   attributes were not actually being set.
  53
  54 === External library changes in 1.29 ===
  55
  56 ==== Upgraded external libraries ====
  57 * Updated QUnit from v1.22.0 to v1.23.1.
  58
  59 ==== New external libraries ====
  60
  61 ==== Removed and replaced external libraries ====
  62
  63 === Bug fixes in 1.29 ===
  64 * (T62604) Core parser functions returning a number now format the number according
  65   to the page content language, not wiki content language.
  66
  67 === Action API changes in 1.29 ===
  68 * Submitting sensitive authentication request parameters to action=clientlogin,
  69   action=createaccount, action=linkaccount, and action=changeauthenticationdata
  70   in the query string is now an error. They should be submitted in the POST
  71   body instead.
  72 * The capture option for action=resetpassword has been removed
  73 * action=clearhasmsg now requires a POST.
  74 * (T47843) API errors and warnings may be requested in non-English languages
  75   using the new 'errorformat', 'errorlang', and 'errorsuselocal' parameters.
  76 * API error codes may have changed. Most notably, errors from modules using
  77   parameter prefixes (e.g. all query submodules) will no longer be prefixed.
  78 * ApiPageSet-using modules will report the 'invalidreason' using the specified
  79   'errorformat'.
  80 * action=emailuser may return a "Warnings" status, and now returns 'warnings' and
  81   'errors' subelements (as applicable) instead of 'message'.
  82 * action=imagerotate returns an 'errors' subelement rather than 'errormessage'.
  83 * action=move now reports errors when moving the talk page as an array under
  84   key 'talkmove-errors', rather than using 'talkmove-error-code' and
  85   'talkmove-error-info'. The format for subpage move errors has also changed.
  86 * action=revisiondelete no longer includes a "rendered" property on warnings
  87   and errors for each item. Use errorformat=wikitext if you're wanting parsed
  88   output.
  89 * action=rollback no longer returns a "messageHtml" property. Use
  90   errorformat=html if you're wanting HTML formatting of error messages.
  91 * action=upload now reports optional stash failures as an array under key
  92   'stasherrors' rather than a 'stashfailed' text string.
  93 * action=watch reports 'errors' and 'warnings' instead of a single 'error', and
  94   no longer returns a 'message' on success.
  95 * Added action=validatepassword to validate passwords for the account creation
  96   and password change forms.
  97
  98 === Action API internal changes in 1.29 ===
  99 * New methods were added to ApiBase to handle errors and warnings using i18n
 100   keys. Methods for using hard-coded English messages were deprecated:
 101   * ApiBase::dieUsage() was deprecated
 102   * ApiBase::dieUsageMsg() was deprecated
 103   * ApiBase::dieUsageMsgOrDebug() was deprecated
 104   * ApiBase::getErrorFromStatus() was deprecated
 105   * ApiBase::parseMsg() was deprecated
 106   * ApiBase::setWarning() was deprecated
 107 * ApiBase::$messageMap is no longer public. Code attempting to access it will
 108   result in a PHP fatal error.
 109 * The $message parameter to the ApiCheckCanExecute hook should be set to an
 110   ApiMessage. This is compatible with MediaWiki 1.27 and later. Returning a
 111   code for ApiBase::parseMsg() will no longer work.
 112 * UsageException is deprecated in favor of ApiUsageException. For the time
 113   being ApiUsageException is a subclass of UsageException to allow things that
 114   catch only UsageException to still function properly.
 115 * If, for some strange reason, code was using an ApiErrorFormatter instead of
 116   ApiErrorFormatter_BackCompat, note that the result format has changed and
 117   various methods now take a module path rather than a module name.
 118 * ApiMessageTrait::getApiCode() now strips 'apierror-' and 'apiwarn-' prefixes
 119   from the message key, and maps some message keys for backwards compatibility.
 120
 121 === Languages updated in 1.29 ===
 122
 123 MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated
 124 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
 125 changes to languages because of Phabricator reports.
 126
 127 * Based as always on linguistic studies on intelligibility and language
 128   knowledge by geography, language fallbacks have been expanded. When a
 129   translation is missing in the user's preferred interface language, the
 130   corresponding translation for the fallback language will be used instead.
 131   English will only be used as last resort when there are no translations.
 132   Some configurations (such as date formats and gender namespaces) have also
 133   been updated when using the fallback language's configuration was inadequate.
 134   The new or reinstated language fallbacks are (after cs ↔ sk in 1.28):
 135   hsb ↔ dsb, io → eo, mdf → ru, pnt → el, roa-tara → it.
 136
 137 ==== No fallback for Ukrainian ====
 138 * (T39314) The fallback from Ukrainian to Russian was removed. The Ukrainian
 139   language will now use the default fallback language: English. When a translation
 140   to Ukrainian is not available, an English string will be shown.
 141
 142 === Other changes in 1.29 ===
 143 * Database::getSearchEngine() (deprecated in 1.28) was removed. Use
 144   SearchEngineFactory::getSearchEngineClass() instead.
 145 * $wgSessionsInMemcached (deprecated in 1.20) was removed. No replacement is
 146   required as all sessions are stored in Object Cache now.
 147 * MWHttpRequest::execute() should be considered to return a StatusValue; the
 148   Status return type is deprecated.
 149 * User::edits() (deprecated in 1.21) was removed.
 150 * Xml::escapeJsString() (deprecated in 1.21) was removed.
 151 * Article::getText() and Article::prepareTextForEdit() (deprecated in 1.21)
 152   were removed.
 153 * Article::getAutosummary() and WikiPage::getAutosummary() (deprecated in 1.21)
 154   were removed.
 155 * Hooks ArticleViewCustom, EditPageGetDiffText and ShowRawCssJs (deprecated in 1.21)
 156   were removed.
 157 * Class RevisiondeleteAction (deprecated in 1.25) was removed.
 158 * WikiPage::prepareTextForEdit() (deprecated in 1.21) was removed.
 159 * WikiPage::getText() (deprecated in 1.21) was removed.
 160 * Article::fetchContent() (deprecated in 1.21) was removed.
 161 * User::getPassword() (deprecated in 1.27) was removed.
 162 * User::getTemporaryPassword() (deprecated in 1.27) was removed.
 163 * User::isPasswordReminderThrottled() (deprecated in 1.27) was removed.
 164 * Class FSRepo (deprecated in 1.19) was removed.
 165 * WebRequest::checkSessionCookie() (deprecated in 1.27) was removed. Use
 166   \MediaWiki\Session\SessionManager::singleton()->getPersistedSessionId() instead.
 167 * Class ImageGallery (deprecated in 1.22) was removed.
 168   Use ImageGalleryBase::factory instead.
 169 * Title::moveNoAuth() (deprecated in 1.25) was removed. Use MovePage class instead.
 170 * Hook UnknownAction (deprecated in 1.19) was actually deprecated (it will now
 171   emit warnings). Create a subclass of Action and add it to $wgActions instead.
 172 * WikiRevision::getText() (deprecated since 1.21) is no longer marked deprecated.
 173 * Linker::getInterwikiLinkAttributes() (deprecated since 1.25) was removed.
 174 * Linker::getInternalLinkAttributes() (deprecated since 1.25) was removed.
 175 * Linker::getInternalLinkAttributesObj() (deprecated since 1.25) was removed.
 176 * Linker::getLinkAttributesInternal() (deprecated since 1.25) was removed.
 177 * RedisConnectionPool::handleException (deprecated since 1.23) was removed.
 178 * The static properties mw.Api.errors and mw.Api.warnings, containing incomplete
 179   and outdated lists of errors/warnings returned by the API, are now deprecated.
 180 * wiki.phtml entry point was removed.  Refer to index.php instead. If you want "wiki.phtml"
 181   URLs to continue to work, set up redirects. In Apache, this can be done by enabling
 182   mod_rewrite and adding the following rules to your configuration:
 183
 184     RewriteEngine On
 185     RewriteBase /
 186     RewriteRule ^/w/wiki\.phtml$ /w/index.php [R=301,L]
 187
 188 == Compatibility ==
 189
 190 MediaWiki 1.29 requires PHP 5.5.9 or later. There is experimental support for
 191 HHVM 3.6.5 or later.
 192
 193 MySQL is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used, but
 194 support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for
 195 Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
 196
 197 The supported versions are:
 198
 199 * MySQL 5.0.3 or later
 200 * PostgreSQL 8.3 or later
 201 * SQLite 3.3.7 or later
 202 * Oracle 9.0.1 or later
 203 * Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (9.00.1399)
 204
 205 == Upgrading ==
 206
 207 1.29 has several database changes since 1.28, and will not work without schema
 208 updates. Note that due to changes to some very large tables like the revision
 209 table, the schema update may take quite long (minutes on a medium sized site,
 210 many hours on a large site).
 211
 212 If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons
 213 repository, make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise
 214 due to database schema changes.
 215
 216 If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
 217 new database fields are filled with data.
 218
 219 If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, you should upgrade to
 220 1.5 first. The upgrade script maintenance/upgrade1_5.php has been removed
 221 with MediaWiki 1.21.
 222
 223 Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
 224
 225 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
 226
 227 For notes on 1.28.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
 228
 229 == Online documentation ==
 230
 231 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is available on
 232 MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except
 233 for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain):
 234
 235        https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Documentation
 236
 237 == Mailing list ==
 238
 239 A mailing list is available for MediaWiki user support and discussion:
 240
 241        https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
 242
 243 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
 244
 245        https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
 246
 247 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
 248 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
 249
 250 == IRC help ==
 251
 252 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net.