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