RELEASE-NOTES-1.30

   1 == MediaWiki 1.30 ==
   2
   3 THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
   4
   5 MediaWiki 1.30 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in
   6 production.
   7
   8 === Configuration changes in 1.30 ===
   9 * The C.UTF-8 locale should be used for $wgShellLocale, if available, to avoid
  10   unexpected behavior when things use local-sensitive string comparisons. For
  11   example, Scribunto considers "bar" < "Foo" in most locales since it ignores
  12   case.
  13 * $wgShellLocale now affects LC_ALL rather than only LC_CTYPE. See
  14   documentation of $wgShellLocale for details.
  15
  16 === New features in 1.30 ===
  17 * (T37247) Output from Parser::parse() will now be wrapped in a div with
  18   class="mw-parser-output" by default. This may be changed or disabled using
  19   ParserOptions::setWrapOutputClass().
  20
  21 === External library changes in 1.30 ===
  22
  23 ==== Upgraded external libraries ====
  24 * …
  25
  26 ==== New external libraries ====
  27 * …
  28
  29 ==== Removed and replaced external libraries ====
  30 * …
  31
  32 === Bug fixes in 1.30 ===
  33 * …
  34
  35 === Action API changes in 1.30 ===
  36 * (T37247) action=parse output will be wrapped in a div with
  37   class="mw-parser-output" by default. This may be changed or disabled using
  38   the new 'wrapoutputclass' parameter.
  39
  40 === Action API internal changes in 1.30 ===
  41 * …
  42
  43 === Languages updated in 1.30 ===
  44 MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated
  45 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
  46 changes to languages because of Phabricator reports.
  47
  48 * …
  49
  50 === Other changes in 1.30 ===
  51 * The use of an associative array for $wgProxyList, where the IP address is in
  52   the key instead of the value, is deprecated (e.g. [ '127.0.0.1' => 'value' ]).
  53   Please convert these arrays to indexed/sequential ones (e.g. [ '127.0.0.1' ]).
  54 * mw.user.bucket (deprecated in 1.23) was removed.
  55 * LoadBalancer::getServerInfo() and LoadBalancer::setServerInfo() are
  56   deprecated. There are no known callers.
  57
  58 == Compatibility ==
  59 MediaWiki 1.30 requires PHP 5.5.9 or later. There is experimental support for
  60 HHVM 3.6.5 or later.
  61
  62 MySQL/MariaDB is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used,
  63 but support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for
  64 Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
  65
  66 The supported versions are:
  67
  68 * MySQL 5.0.3 or later
  69 * PostgreSQL 8.3 or later
  70 * SQLite 3.3.7 or later
  71 * Oracle 9.0.1 or later
  72 * Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (9.00.1399)
  73
  74 == Upgrading ==
  75 1.30 has several database changes since 1.29, and will not work without schema
  76 updates. Note that due to changes to some very large tables like the revision
  77 table, the schema update may take quite long (minutes on a medium sized site,
  78 many hours on a large site).
  79
  80 Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
  81
  82 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions, including
  83 important information when upgrading from versions prior to 1.11.
  84
  85 For notes on 1.29.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
  86
  87 == Online documentation ==
  88 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is available on
  89 MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except
  90 for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain):
  91
  92        https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Documentation
  93
  94 == Mailing list ==
  95 A mailing list is available for MediaWiki user support and discussion:
  96
  97        https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
  98
  99 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
 100
 101        https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
 102
 103 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
 104 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
 105
 106 == IRC help ==
 107 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net.