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 * Title::canTalk() was deprecated, the new Title::canHaveTalkPage() should be
  89   used instead.
  90 * MWNamespace::canTalk() was deprecated, the new MWNamespace::hasTalkNamespace()
  91   should be used instead.
  92 * The ExtractThumbParameters hook (deprecated in 1.21) was removed.
  93 * The OutputPage::addParserOutputNoText and ::getHeadLinks methods (both
  94   deprecated in 1.24) were removed.
  95 * wfMemcKey() and wfGlobalCacheKey() were deprecated. BagOStuff::makeKey() and
  96   BagOStuff::makeGlobalKey() should be used instead.
  97 * (T146304) Preprocessor handling of LanguageConverter markup has been improved.
  98   As a result of the new uniform handling, '-{' may need to be escaped
  99   (for example, as '-<nowiki/>{') where it occurs inside template arguments
 100   or wikilinks.
 101 * (T163966) Page moves are now counted as edits for the purposes of
 102   autopromotion, i.e., they increment the user_editcount field in the database.
 103 * Two new hooks, LogEventsListLineEnding and NewPagesLineEnding were added for
 104   manipulating Special:Log and Special:NewPages lines.
 105 * The OldChangesListRecentChangesLine, EnhancedChangesListModifyLineData,
 106   PageHistoryLineEnding, ContributionsLineEnding and DeletedContributionsLineEnding
 107   hooks have an additional parameter, for manipulating HTML data attributes of
 108   RC/history lines. EnhancedChangesListModifyBlockLineData can do that via the
 109   $data['attribs'] subarray.
 110 * (T130632) The OutputPage::enableTOC() method was removed.
 111
 112 == Compatibility ==
 113 MediaWiki 1.30 requires PHP 5.5.9 or later. There is experimental support for
 114 HHVM 3.6.5 or later.
 115
 116 MySQL/MariaDB is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used,
 117 but support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for
 118 Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
 119
 120 The supported versions are:
 121
 122 * MySQL 5.0.3 or later
 123 * PostgreSQL 8.3 or later
 124 * SQLite 3.3.7 or later
 125 * Oracle 9.0.1 or later
 126 * Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (9.00.1399)
 127
 128 == Upgrading ==
 129 1.30 has several database changes since 1.29, and will not work without schema
 130 updates. Note that due to changes to some very large tables like the revision
 131 table, the schema update may take quite long (minutes on a medium sized site,
 132 many hours on a large site).
 133
 134 Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
 135
 136 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions, including
 137 important information when upgrading from versions prior to 1.11.
 138
 139 For notes on 1.29.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
 140
 141 == Online documentation ==
 142 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is available on
 143 MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except
 144 for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain):
 145
 146        https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Documentation
 147
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