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 * $wgJobClasses may now specify callback functions
  16   as an alternative to plain class names.
  17   This is intended for extensions that want control
  18   over the instantiation of their jobs,
  19   to allow for proper dependency injection.
  20
  21 === New features in 1.30 ===
  22 * (T37247) Output from Parser::parse() will now be wrapped in a div with
  23   class="mw-parser-output" by default. This may be changed or disabled using
  24   ParserOptions::setWrapOutputClass().
  25 * Added 'ChangeTagsAllowedAdd' hook, enabling extensions to allow software-
  26   specific tags to be added by users.
  27 * File storage backends that supports headers (eg. Swift) now store an
  28   X-Content-Dimensions header for originals that contain the media's dimensions
  29   as page ranges keyed by dimensions.
  30
  31 === External library changes in 1.30 ===
  32
  33 ==== Upgraded external libraries ====
  34 * …
  35
  36 ==== New external libraries ====
  37 * …
  38
  39 ==== Removed and replaced external libraries ====
  40 * …
  41
  42 === Bug fixes in 1.30 ===
  43 * …
  44
  45 === Action API changes in 1.30 ===
  46 * (T37247) action=parse output will be wrapped in a div with
  47   class="mw-parser-output" by default. This may be changed or disabled using
  48   the new 'wrapoutputclass' parameter.
  49
  50 === Action API internal changes in 1.30 ===
  51 * …
  52
  53 === Languages updated in 1.30 ===
  54 MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated
  55 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
  56 changes to languages because of Phabricator reports.
  57
  58 * …
  59
  60 === Other changes in 1.30 ===
  61 * The use of an associative array for $wgProxyList, where the IP address is in
  62   the key instead of the value, is deprecated (e.g. [ '127.0.0.1' => 'value' ]).
  63   Please convert these arrays to indexed/sequential ones (e.g. [ '127.0.0.1' ]).
  64 * mw.user.bucket (deprecated in 1.23) was removed.
  65 * LoadBalancer::getServerInfo() and LoadBalancer::setServerInfo() are
  66   deprecated. There are no known callers.
  67 * File::getStreamHeaders() was deprecated.
  68 * MediaHandler::getStreamHeaders() was deprecated.
  69
  70 == Compatibility ==
  71 MediaWiki 1.30 requires PHP 5.5.9 or later. There is experimental support for
  72 HHVM 3.6.5 or later.
  73
  74 MySQL/MariaDB is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used,
  75 but support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for
  76 Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
  77
  78 The supported versions are:
  79
  80 * MySQL 5.0.3 or later
  81 * PostgreSQL 8.3 or later
  82 * SQLite 3.3.7 or later
  83 * Oracle 9.0.1 or later
  84 * Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (9.00.1399)
  85
  86 == Upgrading ==
  87 1.30 has several database changes since 1.29, and will not work without schema
  88 updates. Note that due to changes to some very large tables like the revision
  89 table, the schema update may take quite long (minutes on a medium sized site,
  90 many hours on a large site).
  91
  92 Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
  93
  94 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions, including
  95 important information when upgrading from versions prior to 1.11.
  96
  97 For notes on 1.29.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
  98
  99 == Online documentation ==
 100 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is available on
 101 MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except
 102 for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain):
 103
 104        https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Documentation
 105
 106 == Mailing list ==
 107 A mailing list is available for MediaWiki user support and discussion:
 108
 109        https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
 110
 111 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
 112
 113        https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
 114
 115 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
 116 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
 117
 118 == IRC help ==
 119 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net.