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