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 === MySQL version requirement in 1.30 ===
   9 As of 1.30, MediaWiki now requires MySQL 5.5.8 or higher (see Compatibility
  10 section).
  11
  12 === Configuration changes in 1.30 ===
  13 * The "C.UTF-8" locale should be used for $wgShellLocale, if available, to avoid
  14   unexpected behavior when code uses locale-sensitive string comparisons. For
  15   example, the Scribunto extension considers "bar" < "Foo" in most locales
  16   since it ignores case.
  17 * $wgShellLocale now affects LC_ALL rather than only LC_CTYPE. See
  18   documentation of $wgShellLocale for details.
  19 * $wgShellLocale is now applied for all requests. wfInitShellLocale() is
  20   deprecated and a no-op, as it is no longer needed.
  21 * $wgJobClasses may now specify callback functions as an alternative to plain
  22   class names. This is intended for extensions that want control over the
  23   instantiation of their jobs, to allow for proper dependency injection.
  24 * $wgResourceModules may now specify callback functions as an alternative
  25   to plain class names, using the 'factory' key in the module description
  26   array. This allows dependency injection to be used for ResourceLoader modules.
  27 * $wgExceptionHooks has been removed.
  28 * (T45547) $wgUsePigLatinVariant added (off by default).
  29
  30 === New features in 1.30 ===
  31 * (T37247) Output from Parser::parse() will now be wrapped in a div with
  32   class="mw-parser-output" by default. This may be changed or disabled using
  33   ParserOptions::setWrapOutputClass().
  34 * Added 'ChangeTagsAllowedAdd' hook, enabling extensions to allow software-
  35   specific tags to be added by users.
  36 * Added a 'ParserOptionsRegister' hook to allow extensions to register
  37   additional parser options.
  38 * (T45547) Included Pig Latin, a language game in English, as a
  39   LanguageConverter variant.  This allows English-speaking developers
  40   to develop and test LanguageConverter more easily.  Pig Latin can be
  41   enabled by setting $wgUsePigLatinVariant to true.
  42 * Added RecentChangesPurgeRows hook to allow extensions to purge data that
  43   depends on the recentchanges table.
  44
  45 === Languages updated in 1.30 ===
  46
  47 * Support for kbp (Kabɩyɛ / Kabiyè) was added.
  48
  49 === External library changes in 1.30 ===
  50
  51 ==== Upgraded external libraries ====
  52 * mediawiki/mediawiki-codesniffer updated to 0.8.1.
  53 * wikimedia/composer-merge-plugin updated to 1.4.1.
  54
  55 ==== New external libraries ====
  56 * The class \TestingAccessWrapper has been moved to the external library
  57   wikimedia/testing-access-wrapper and renamed \Wikimedia\TestingAccessWrapper.
  58
  59 ==== Removed and replaced external libraries ====
  60 * …
  61
  62 === Bug fixes in 1.30 ===
  63 * (T151633) Ordered list items use now Devanagari digits in Nepalese
  64   (thanks to Sfic)
  65
  66 === Action API changes in 1.30 ===
  67 * (T37247) action=parse output will be wrapped in a div with
  68   class="mw-parser-output" by default. This may be changed or disabled using
  69   the new 'wrapoutputclass' parameter.
  70 * When errorformat is not 'bc', abort reasons from action=login will be
  71   formatted as specified by the error formatter parameters.
  72 * action=compare can now handle arbitrary text, deleted revisions, and
  73   returning users and edit comments.
  74 * (T164106) The 'rvdifftotext', 'rvdifftotextpst', 'rvdiffto',
  75   'rvexpandtemplates', 'rvgeneratexml', 'rvparse', and 'rvprop=parsetree'
  76   parameters to prop=revisions are deprecated, as are the similarly named
  77   parameters to prop=deletedrevisions, list=allrevisions, and
  78   list=alldeletedrevisions. Use action=compare, action=parse, or
  79   action=expandtemplates instead.
  80
  81 === Action API internal changes in 1.30 ===
  82 * ApiBase::getDescriptionMessage() and the "apihelp-*-description" messages are
  83   deprecated. The existing message should be split between "apihelp-*-summary"
  84   and "apihelp-*-extended-description".
  85 * (T123931) Individual values of multi-valued parameters can now be marked as
  86   deprecated.
  87
  88 === Languages updated in 1.30 ===
  89 MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated
  90 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
  91 changes to languages because of Phabricator reports.
  92
  93 * …
  94
  95 ==== Pig Latin added ====
  96 * (T45547) Added Pig Latin, a made-up English variant (en-x-piglatin),
  97   for easier variant development and testing. Disabled by default. It can be
  98   enabled by setting $wgUsePigLatinVariant to true.
  99
 100 === Other changes in 1.30 ===
 101 * The use of an associative array for $wgProxyList, where the IP address is in
 102   the key instead of the value, is deprecated (e.g. [ '127.0.0.1' => 'value' ]).
 103   Please convert these arrays to indexed/sequential ones (e.g. [ '127.0.0.1' ]).
 104 * mw.user.bucket (deprecated in 1.23) was removed.
 105 * LoadBalancer::getServerInfo() and LoadBalancer::setServerInfo() are
 106   deprecated. There are no known callers.
 107 * File::getStreamHeaders() was deprecated.
 108 * MediaHandler::getStreamHeaders() was deprecated.
 109 * Title::canTalk() was deprecated. The new Title::canHaveTalkPage() should be
 110   used instead.
 111 * MWNamespace::canTalk() was deprecated. The new MWNamespace::hasTalkNamespace()
 112   should be used instead.
 113 * The ExtractThumbParameters hook (deprecated in 1.21) was removed.
 114 * The OutputPage::addParserOutputNoText and ::getHeadLinks methods (both
 115   deprecated in 1.24) were removed.
 116 * wfMemcKey() and wfGlobalCacheKey() were deprecated. BagOStuff::makeKey() and
 117   BagOStuff::makeGlobalKey() should be used instead.
 118 * (T146304) Preprocessor handling of LanguageConverter markup has been improved.
 119   As a result of the new uniform handling, '-{' may need to be escaped
 120   (for example, as '-<nowiki/>{') where it occurs inside template arguments
 121   or wikilinks.
 122 * (T163966) Page moves are now counted as edits for the purposes of
 123   autopromotion, i.e., they increment the user_editcount field in the database.
 124 * Two new hooks, LogEventsListLineEnding and NewPagesLineEnding, were added for
 125   manipulating Special:Log and Special:NewPages lines.
 126 * The OldChangesListRecentChangesLine, EnhancedChangesListModifyLineData,
 127   PageHistoryLineEnding, ContributionsLineEnding and DeletedContributionsLineEnding
 128   hooks have an additional parameter, for manipulating HTML data attributes of
 129   RC/history lines. EnhancedChangesListModifyBlockLineData can do that via the
 130   $data['attribs'] subarray.
 131 * (T130632) The OutputPage::enableTOC() method was removed.
 132 * WikiPage::getParserOutput() will now throw an exception if passed
 133   ParserOptions that would pollute the parser cache. Callers should use
 134   WikiPage::makeParserOptions() to create the ParserOptions object and only
 135   change options that affect the parser cache key.
 136 * Article::viewRedirect() is deprecated.
 137 * DeprecatedGlobal no longer supports passing in a direct value, it requires a
 138   callable factory function or a class name.
 139 * The $parserMemc global, wfGetParserCacheStorage(), and ParserCache::singleton()
 140   are all deprecated. The main ParserCache instance should be obtained from
 141   MediaWikiServices instead. Access to the underlying BagOStuff is possible
 142   through the new ParserCache::getCacheStorage() method.
 143 * .mw-ui-constructive CSS class (deprecated in 1.27) was removed.
 144
 145 == Compatibility ==
 146 MediaWiki 1.30 requires PHP 5.5.9 or later. There is experimental support for
 147 HHVM 3.6.5 or later.
 148
 149 MySQL/MariaDB is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used,
 150 but support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for
 151 Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
 152
 153 The supported versions are:
 154
 155 * MySQL 5.5.8 or later
 156 * PostgreSQL 8.3 or later
 157 * SQLite 3.3.7 or later
 158 * Oracle 9.0.1 or later
 159 * Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (9.00.1399)
 160
 161 == Upgrading ==
 162 1.30 has several database changes since 1.29, and will not work without schema
 163 updates. Note that due to changes to some very large tables like the revision
 164 table, the schema update may take a long time (minutes on a medium sized site,
 165 many hours on a large site).
 166
 167 Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
 168
 169 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions, including
 170 important information when upgrading from versions prior to 1.11.
 171
 172 For notes on 1.29.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
 173
 174 == Online documentation ==
 175 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is available on
 176 MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except
 177 for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain):
 178
 179        https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Documentation
 180
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 192
 193 == IRC help ==
 194 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net.