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 * File storage backends that supports headers (eg. Swift) now store an
  38   X-Content-Dimensions header for originals that contain the media's dimensions
  39   as page ranges keyed by dimensions.
  40 * Added a 'ParserOptionsRegister' hook to allow extensions to register
  41   additional parser options.
  42
  43 === Languages updated in 1.30 ===
  44
  45 * Support for kbp (Kabɩyɛ / Kabiyè) was added.
  46
  47 === External library changes in 1.30 ===
  48
  49 ==== Upgraded external libraries ====
  50 * …
  51
  52 ==== New external libraries ====
  53 * The class \TestingAccessWrapper has been moved to the external library
  54   wikimedia/testing-access-wrapper and renamed \Wikimedia\TestingAccessWrapper.
  55
  56 ==== Removed and replaced external libraries ====
  57 * …
  58
  59 === Bug fixes in 1.30 ===
  60 * (T151633) Ordered list items use now Devanagari digits in Nepalese
  61   (thanks to Sfic)
  62
  63 === Action API changes in 1.30 ===
  64 * (T37247) action=parse output will be wrapped in a div with
  65   class="mw-parser-output" by default. This may be changed or disabled using
  66   the new 'wrapoutputclass' parameter.
  67 * When errorformat is not 'bc', abort reasons from action=login will be
  68   formatted as specified by the error formatter parameters.
  69
  70 === Action API internal changes in 1.30 ===
  71 * …
  72
  73 === Languages updated in 1.30 ===
  74 MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated
  75 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
  76 changes to languages because of Phabricator reports.
  77
  78 * …
  79
  80 === Other changes in 1.30 ===
  81 * The use of an associative array for $wgProxyList, where the IP address is in
  82   the key instead of the value, is deprecated (e.g. [ '127.0.0.1' => 'value' ]).
  83   Please convert these arrays to indexed/sequential ones (e.g. [ '127.0.0.1' ]).
  84 * mw.user.bucket (deprecated in 1.23) was removed.
  85 * LoadBalancer::getServerInfo() and LoadBalancer::setServerInfo() are
  86   deprecated. There are no known callers.
  87 * File::getStreamHeaders() was deprecated.
  88 * MediaHandler::getStreamHeaders() was deprecated.
  89 * The ExtractThumbParameters hook (deprecated in 1.21) was removed.
  90 * The OutputPage::addParserOutputNoText and ::getHeadLinks methods (both
  91   deprecated in 1.24) were removed.
  92 * wfMemcKey() and wfGlobalCacheKey() were deprecated. BagOStuff::makeKey() and
  93   BagOStuff::makeGlobalKey() should be used instead.
  94 * (T146304) Preprocessor handling of LanguageConverter markup has been improved.
  95   As a result of the new uniform handling, '-{' may need to be escaped
  96   (for example, as '-<nowiki/>{') where it occurs inside template arguments
  97   or wikilinks.
  98
  99 == Compatibility ==
 100 MediaWiki 1.30 requires PHP 5.5.9 or later. There is experimental support for
 101 HHVM 3.6.5 or later.
 102
 103 MySQL/MariaDB is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used,
 104 but support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for
 105 Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
 106
 107 The supported versions are:
 108
 109 * MySQL 5.0.3 or later
 110 * PostgreSQL 8.3 or later
 111 * SQLite 3.3.7 or later
 112 * Oracle 9.0.1 or later
 113 * Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (9.00.1399)
 114
 115 == Upgrading ==
 116 1.30 has several database changes since 1.29, and will not work without schema
 117 updates. Note that due to changes to some very large tables like the revision
 118 table, the schema update may take quite long (minutes on a medium sized site,
 119 many hours on a large site).
 120
 121 Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
 122
 123 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions, including
 124 important information when upgrading from versions prior to 1.11.
 125
 126 For notes on 1.29.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
 127
 128 == Online documentation ==
 129 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is available on
 130 MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except
 131 for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain):
 132
 133        https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Documentation
 134
 135 == Mailing list ==
 136 A mailing list is available for MediaWiki user support and discussion:
 137
 138        https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
 139
 140 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
 141
 142        https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
 143
 144 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
 145 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
 146
 147 == IRC help ==
 148 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net.