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
  27 === New features in 1.30 ===
  28 * (T37247) Output from Parser::parse() will now be wrapped in a div with
  29   class="mw-parser-output" by default. This may be changed or disabled using
  30   ParserOptions::setWrapOutputClass().
  31 * Added 'ChangeTagsAllowedAdd' hook, enabling extensions to allow software-
  32   specific tags to be added by users.
  33 * File storage backends that supports headers (eg. Swift) now store an
  34   X-Content-Dimensions header for originals that contain the media's dimensions
  35   as page ranges keyed by dimensions.
  36
  37 === Languages updated in 1.30 ===
  38
  39 * Support for kbp (Kabɩyɛ / Kabiyè) was added.
  40
  41 === External library changes in 1.30 ===
  42
  43 ==== Upgraded external libraries ====
  44 * …
  45
  46 ==== New external libraries ====
  47 * The class \TestingAccessWrapper has been moved to the external library
  48   wikimedia/testing-access-wrapper and renamed \Wikimedia\TestingAccessWrapper.
  49
  50 ==== Removed and replaced external libraries ====
  51 * …
  52
  53 === Bug fixes in 1.30 ===
  54 * (T151633) Ordered list items use now Devanagari digits in Nepalese
  55   (thanks to Sfic)
  56
  57 === Action API changes in 1.30 ===
  58 * (T37247) action=parse output will be wrapped in a div with
  59   class="mw-parser-output" by default. This may be changed or disabled using
  60   the new 'wrapoutputclass' parameter.
  61 * When errorformat is not 'bc', abort reasons from action=login will be
  62   formatted as specified by the error formatter parameters.
  63 * action=compare can now handle arbitrary text, deleted revisions, and
  64   returning users and edit comments.
  65
  66 === Action API internal changes in 1.30 ===
  67 * …
  68
  69 === Languages updated in 1.30 ===
  70 MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated
  71 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
  72 changes to languages because of Phabricator reports.
  73
  74 * …
  75
  76 === Other changes in 1.30 ===
  77 * The use of an associative array for $wgProxyList, where the IP address is in
  78   the key instead of the value, is deprecated (e.g. [ '127.0.0.1' => 'value' ]).
  79   Please convert these arrays to indexed/sequential ones (e.g. [ '127.0.0.1' ]).
  80 * mw.user.bucket (deprecated in 1.23) was removed.
  81 * LoadBalancer::getServerInfo() and LoadBalancer::setServerInfo() are
  82   deprecated. There are no known callers.
  83 * File::getStreamHeaders() was deprecated.
  84 * MediaHandler::getStreamHeaders() was deprecated.
  85 * The ExtractThumbParameters hook (deprecated in 1.21) was removed.
  86 * The OutputPage::addParserOutputNoText and ::getHeadLinks methods (both
  87   deprecated in 1.24) were removed.
  88 * wfMemcKey() and wfGlobalCacheKey() were deprecated. BagOStuff::makeKey() and
  89   BagOStuff::makeGlobalKey() should be used instead.
  90 * (T146304) Preprocessor handling of LanguageConverter markup has been improved.
  91   As a result of the new uniform handling, '-{' may need to be escaped
  92   (for example, as '-<nowiki/>{') where it occurs inside template arguments
  93   or wikilinks.
  94
  95 == Compatibility ==
  96 MediaWiki 1.30 requires PHP 5.5.9 or later. There is experimental support for
  97 HHVM 3.6.5 or later.
  98
  99 MySQL/MariaDB is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used,
 100 but support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for
 101 Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
 102
 103 The supported versions are:
 104
 105 * MySQL 5.0.3 or later
 106 * PostgreSQL 8.3 or later
 107 * SQLite 3.3.7 or later
 108 * Oracle 9.0.1 or later
 109 * Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (9.00.1399)
 110
 111 == Upgrading ==
 112 1.30 has several database changes since 1.29, and will not work without schema
 113 updates. Note that due to changes to some very large tables like the revision
 114 table, the schema update may take quite long (minutes on a medium sized site,
 115 many hours on a large site).
 116
 117 Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
 118
 119 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions, including
 120 important information when upgrading from versions prior to 1.11.
 121
 122 For notes on 1.29.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
 123
 124 == Online documentation ==
 125 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is available on
 126 MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except
 127 for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain):
 128
 129        https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Documentation
 130
 131 == Mailing list ==
 132 A mailing list is available for MediaWiki user support and discussion:
 133
 134        https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
 135
 136 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
 137
 138        https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
 139
 140 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
 141 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
 142
 143 == IRC help ==
 144 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net.