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 * $wgResourceModules may now specify callback functions as an alternative
  21   to plain class names, using the 'factory' key in the module description
  22   array. This allows dependency injection to be used for ResourceLoader modules.
  23 * $wgExceptionHooks has been removed.
  24 * $wgShellLocale is now applied for all requests. wfInitShellLocale() is
  25   deprecated and a no-op, as it is no longer needed.
  26 * WikiPage::getParserOutput() will now throw an exception if passed
  27   ParserOptions would pollute the parser cache. Callers should use
  28   WikiPage::makeParserOptions() to create the ParserOptions object and only
  29   change options that affect the parser cache key.
  30
  31 === New features in 1.30 ===
  32 * (T37247) Output from Parser::parse() will now be wrapped in a div with
  33   class="mw-parser-output" by default. This may be changed or disabled using
  34   ParserOptions::setWrapOutputClass().
  35 * Added 'ChangeTagsAllowedAdd' hook, enabling extensions to allow software-
  36   specific tags to be added by users.
  37 * Added a 'ParserOptionsRegister' hook to allow extensions to register
  38   additional parser options.
  39
  40 === Languages updated in 1.30 ===
  41
  42 * Support for kbp (Kabɩyɛ / Kabiyè) was added.
  43
  44 === External library changes in 1.30 ===
  45
  46 ==== Upgraded external libraries ====
  47 * …
  48
  49 ==== New external libraries ====
  50 * The class \TestingAccessWrapper has been moved to the external library
  51   wikimedia/testing-access-wrapper and renamed \Wikimedia\TestingAccessWrapper.
  52
  53 ==== Removed and replaced external libraries ====
  54 * …
  55
  56 === Bug fixes in 1.30 ===
  57 * (T151633) Ordered list items use now Devanagari digits in Nepalese
  58   (thanks to Sfic)
  59
  60 === Action API changes in 1.30 ===
  61 * (T37247) action=parse output will be wrapped in a div with
  62   class="mw-parser-output" by default. This may be changed or disabled using
  63   the new 'wrapoutputclass' parameter.
  64 * When errorformat is not 'bc', abort reasons from action=login will be
  65   formatted as specified by the error formatter parameters.
  66 * action=compare can now handle arbitrary text, deleted revisions, and
  67   returning users and edit comments.
  68
  69 === Action API internal changes in 1.30 ===
  70 * …
  71
  72 === Languages updated in 1.30 ===
  73 MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated
  74 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
  75 changes to languages because of Phabricator reports.
  76
  77 * …
  78
  79 === Other changes in 1.30 ===
  80 * The use of an associative array for $wgProxyList, where the IP address is in
  81   the key instead of the value, is deprecated (e.g. [ '127.0.0.1' => 'value' ]).
  82   Please convert these arrays to indexed/sequential ones (e.g. [ '127.0.0.1' ]).
  83 * mw.user.bucket (deprecated in 1.23) was removed.
  84 * LoadBalancer::getServerInfo() and LoadBalancer::setServerInfo() are
  85   deprecated. There are no known callers.
  86 * File::getStreamHeaders() was deprecated.
  87 * MediaHandler::getStreamHeaders() was deprecated.
  88 * The ExtractThumbParameters hook (deprecated in 1.21) was removed.
  89 * The OutputPage::addParserOutputNoText and ::getHeadLinks methods (both
  90   deprecated in 1.24) were removed.
  91 * wfMemcKey() and wfGlobalCacheKey() were deprecated. BagOStuff::makeKey() and
  92   BagOStuff::makeGlobalKey() should be used instead.
  93 * (T146304) Preprocessor handling of LanguageConverter markup has been improved.
  94   As a result of the new uniform handling, '-{' may need to be escaped
  95   (for example, as '-<nowiki/>{') where it occurs inside template arguments
  96   or wikilinks.
  97 * (T163966) Page moves are now counted as edits for the purposes of
  98   autopromotion, i.e., they increment the user_editcount field in the database.
  99 * Two new hooks, LogEventsListLineEnding and NewPagesLineEnding were added for
 100   manipulating Special:Log and Special:NewPages lines.
 101 * The OldChangesListRecentChangesLine, EnhancedChangesListModifyLineData,
 102   PageHistoryLineEnding, ContributionsLineEnding and DeletedContributionsLineEnding
 103   hooks have an additional parameter, for manipulating HTML data attributes of
 104   RC/history lines. EnhancedChangesListModifyBlockLineData can do that via the
 105   $data['attribs'] subarray.
 106 * (T130632) The OutputPage::enableTOC() method was removed.
 107
 108 == Compatibility ==
 109 MediaWiki 1.30 requires PHP 5.5.9 or later. There is experimental support for
 110 HHVM 3.6.5 or later.
 111
 112 MySQL/MariaDB is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used,
 113 but support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for
 114 Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
 115
 116 The supported versions are:
 117
 118 * MySQL 5.0.3 or later
 119 * PostgreSQL 8.3 or later
 120 * SQLite 3.3.7 or later
 121 * Oracle 9.0.1 or later
 122 * Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (9.00.1399)
 123
 124 == Upgrading ==
 125 1.30 has several database changes since 1.29, and will not work without schema
 126 updates. Note that due to changes to some very large tables like the revision
 127 table, the schema update may take quite long (minutes on a medium sized site,
 128 many hours on a large site).
 129
 130 Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
 131
 132 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions, including
 133 important information when upgrading from versions prior to 1.11.
 134
 135 For notes on 1.29.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
 136
 137 == Online documentation ==
 138 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is available on
 139 MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except
 140 for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain):
 141
 142        https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Documentation
 143
 144 == Mailing list ==
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 146
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 148
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 150
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 152
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 154 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
 155
 156 == IRC help ==
 157 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net.