RELEASE-NOTES-1.31

   1 == MediaWiki 1.31 ==
   2
   3 THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
   4
   5 MediaWiki 1.31 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in
   6 production.
   7
   8 === Configuration changes in 1.31 ===
   9 * $wgEnableAPI and $wgEnableWriteAPI are now deprecated and will be removed in
  10   a future version. The API is now considered to be stable, secure and
  11   essential.
  12 * $wgUsejQueryThree was removed, as it is now the default. This was documented as a
  13   temporary variable during the migration period, deprecated since 1.29.
  14 * $wgLogoHD has been updated to support svg images and uses $wgLogo where
  15   possible for fallback images such as png.
  16 * (T44246) $wgFilterLogTypes will no longer ignore 'patrol' when user does
  17   not have the right to mark things patrolled.
  18 * Wikis that contain imported revisions or CentralAuth global blocks should run
  19   maintenance/cleanupUsersWithNoId.php.
  20 * $wgResourceLoaderMinifierStatementsOnOwnLine and $wgResourceLoaderMinifierMaxLineLength
  21   were removed (deprecated since 1.27).
  22 * (T180921) $wgReferrerPolicy now supports having fallbacks for browsers that are not
  23   using the latest version of the Referrer Policy specification.
  24 * $wgFragmentMode is now set to [ 'legacy', 'html5' ] by default. This is a first step of
  25   migration to human-readable section IDs that will later result in 'html5' being the
  26   default mode.
  27 * CACHE_ACCEL now only supports APC(u) or WinCache. XCache support was removed
  28   as upstream is inactive and has no plans to move to PHP 7.
  29 * The old CategorizedRecentChanges feature, including its related configuration
  30   option $wgAllowCategorizedRecentChanges, has been removed.
  31 * (T188472) The 'comma' value for $wgArticleCountMethod is no longer supported for
  32   performance reasons, and installations with this setting will now work as if it
  33   was configured with 'any'.
  34 * $wgLogAutopatrol now defaults to false instead of true.
  35
  36 === New features in 1.31 ===
  37 * (T76554) User sub-pages named ….json are now protected in the same way that ….js
  38   and ….css pages are, so that configuration options can safely be placed there.
  39 * Wikimedia\Rdbms\IDatabase->select() and similar methods now support
  40   joins with parentheses for grouping.
  41 * As a first pass in standardizing dialog boxes across the MediaWiki product,
  42   Html class now provides helper methods for messageBox, successBox, errorBox and
  43   warningBox generation.
  44 * (T9240) Imports will now record unknown (and, optionally, known) usernames in
  45   a format like "iw>Example".
  46 * (T20209) Linker (used on history pages, log pages, and so on) will display
  47   usernames formed like "iw>Example" as interwiki links, as if by wikitext like
  48   [[iw:User:Example|iw>Example]].
  49 * (T111605) The 'ImportHandleUnknownUser' hook allows extensions to auto-create
  50   users during an import.
  51 * Added a hook, ParserOutputPostCacheTransform, to allow extensions to affect
  52   the ParserOutput::getText() post-cache transformations.
  53 * Added a hook, UploadForm:getInitialPageText, to allow extensions to alter the
  54   initial page text for file uploads.
  55 * (T181651) The info page for File pages now displays the file's base-16 SHA1
  56   hash value in the table of basic information.
  57 * Style tags with a 'data-mw-deduplicate' attribute will be deduplicated as a
  58   ParserOutput::getText() post-cache transformation. This may be disabled by
  59   passing 'deduplicateStyles' => false to that method.
  60 * The identity of the logged-in or IP "actor" for logged actions is being moved
  61   into a new actor table, with the rows in tables such as revision and logging
  62   referring to the actor ID instead of storing the user ID and name/IP in
  63   every row.
  64   * This is currently gated by $wgActorTableSchemaMigrationStage. Most wikis
  65     can set this to MIGRATION_NEW and run maintenance/migrateActors.php as
  66     soon as any necessary extensions are updated.
  67   * Most code accessing rows for logged actions from the database should use
  68     the relevant getQueryInfo() methods to get the information needed to build
  69     the SQL query. The ActorMigration class may also be used to get feature-flagged
  70     information needed to access actor-related fields during the migration
  71     period.
  72 * Added Wikimedia\Rdbms\IDatabase::cancelAtomic(), to roll back an atomic
  73   section without having to roll back the whole transaction.
  74 * Wikimedia\Rdbms\IDatabase::doAtomicSection(), non-native ::insertSelect(),
  75   and non-MySQL ::replace() and ::upsert() no longer roll back the whole
  76   transaction on failure.
  77 * (T189785) Added a monthly heartbeat ping to the pingback feature.
  78 * The CLI installer (maintenance/install.php) learned to detect and include
  79   extensions. Pass --with-extensions to enable that feature.
  80 * (T184791) rc_patrolled now has three states: "0" for unpatrolled,
  81   "1" for manually patrolled and "2" for autopatrolled actions.
  82
  83 === External library changes in 1.31 ===
  84
  85 ==== Upgraded external libraries ====
  86 * Updated jquery.chosen from v0.9.14 to v1.8.2.
  87 * Updated composer/spdx-licenses from 1.1.4 to
  88   1.3.0 (development dependency).
  89 * Updated nikic/php-parser from 2.1.0 to 3.1.3
  90   (development dependency).
  91 * Updated wikimedia/ip-set from 1.1.0 to 1.2.0.
  92 * Updated wikimedia/relpath from 2.0.0 to 2.1.1.
  93 * Updated wikimedia/running-stat from 1.1.0 to 1.2.0.
  94 * Updated wikimedia/wrappedstring from 2.2.0 to 2.3.0.
  95 * Updated mediawiki/at-ease from 1.1.0 to 1.2.0.
  96 * Updated wikimedia/php-session-serializer from 1.0.4 to 1.0.5.
  97 * Updated wikimedia/remex-html from 1.0.2 to 1.0.3.
  98 * …
  99
 100 ==== New external libraries ====
 101 * Added wikimedia/object-factory 1.0.0
 102 * …
 103
 104 ==== Removed and replaced external libraries ====
 105 * (T17845) The deprecated 'jquery.badge' module was removed.
 106 * The deprecated 'jquery.autoEllipsis' module was removed. Use the CSS
 107   text-overflow property instead.
 108 * The deprecated 'jquery.placeholder' module was removed.
 109 * The deprecated 'jquery.appear' module was removed. Use the
 110   'mediawiki.viewport' module instead.
 111 * The deprecated 'mediawiki.widgets.CategorySelector' module alias was removed.
 112   Use the 'mediawiki.widgets.CategoryMultiselectWidget' module directly instead.
 113
 114 === Bug fixes in 1.31 ===
 115 * (T90902) Non-breaking space in header ID breaks anchor
 116
 117 === Action API changes in 1.31 ===
 118 * (T185058) The 'name' value to tgprop for action=query&list=tags has been
 119   removed. It has never made a difference in the output, the name was always
 120   returned regardless.
 121
 122 === Action API internal changes in 1.31 ===
 123 * ApiBase::getProfileDBTime was removed (deprecated since 1.25)
 124 * ApiBase::getModuleProfileName was removed (deprecated since 1.25)
 125 * ApiBase::getProfileTime was removed (deprecated since 1.25)
 126
 127 === Languages updated in 1.31 ===
 128 MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated
 129 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
 130 changes to languages because of Phabricator reports.
 131
 132 * (T180052) Mirandese (mwl) now supports gendered NS_USER/NS_USER_TALK namespaces.
 133 * (T182305) New language support: Nyungar (nys).
 134 * (T186359) New language support: Siberian Tatar [cебертатар] (sty).
 135 * (T186635) New language support: Guianan Creole (gcr).
 136 * (T186647) New language support: Kumyk [къумукъ] (kum).
 137 * (T187750) New language support: Spanish formal address (es-formal).
 138 * (T187824) New language support: Hungarian formal address (hu-formal).
 139
 140 === Other changes in 1.31 ===
 141 * Browser support for Internet Explorer 10 was lowered from Grade A to Grade C.
 142 * Introducing multi-content-revision capability into the storage layer. For details,
 143   see <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Multi-Content_Revisions>.
 144 * The Revision class was deprecated in favor of RevisionStore, BlobStore, and
 145   RevisionRecord and its subclasses.
 146 * MessageBlobStore::insertMessageBlob() (deprecated in 1.27) was removed.
 147 * The global function wfBCP47 was renamed to LanguageCode::bcp47.
 148 * The global function wfBCP47 is now deprecated.
 149 * The global function wfCountDown() is now deprecated in favor of
 150   Maintenance::countDown()
 151 * The OutputPage class constructor now requires a context parameter,
 152   (instantiating without context was deprecated in 1.18)
 153 * mw.page (deprecated in 1.30) was removed.
 154 * Article::getLastPurgeTimestamp(), WikiPage::getLastPurgeTimestamp(), and the
 155   related WikiPage::PURGE_* constants, deprecated in 1.29, were removed.
 156 * The Article::selectFields(), Article::onArticleCreate(),
 157   Article::onArticleDelete(), and Article::onArticleEdit() methods, deprecated
 158   in 1.24, were removed.
 159 * Installer::locateExecutable() and Installer::locateExecutableInDefaultPaths()
 160   were removed, use ExecutableFinder::findInDefaultPaths() instead.
 161 * Several methods for returning lists of fields to select from the database
 162   have been deprecated in favor of similar methods that also return the tables
 163   to select from and the join conditions for those tables.
 164   * Block::selectFields() → Block::getQueryInfo()
 165   * RecentChange::selectFields() → RecentChange::getQueryInfo()
 166   * ArchivedFile::selectFields() → ArchivedFile::getQueryInfo()
 167   * LocalFile::selectFields() → LocalFile::getQueryInfo()
 168   * LocalFile::getCacheFields() with a prefix no longer works
 169   * LocalFile::getLazyCacheFields() with a prefix no longer works
 170   * OldLocalFile::selectFields() → OldLocalFile::getQueryInfo()
 171   * RecentChange::selectFields() → RecentChange::getQueryInfo()
 172   * Revision::userJoinCond() → Revision::getQueryInfo( [ 'user' ] )
 173   * Revision::selectUserFields() → Revision::getQueryInfo( [ 'user' ] )
 174   * Revision::pageJoinCond() → Revision::getQueryInfo( [ 'page' ] )
 175   * Revision::selectPageFields() → Revision::getQueryInfo( [ 'page' ] )
 176   * Revision::selectTextFields() → Revision::getQueryInfo( [ 'text' ] )
 177   * Revision::selectFields() → Revision::getQueryInfo()
 178   * Revision::selectArchiveFields() → Revision::getArchiveQueryInfo()
 179   * User::selectFields() → User::getQueryInfo()
 180   * WikiPage::selectFields() → WikiPage::getQueryInfo()
 181 * Due to significant refactoring, method ContribsPager::getUserCond() that had
 182   no access restriction has been removed.
 183 * Revision::setUserIdAndName() was deprecated.
 184 * Access to TitleValue class properties was deprecated, the relevant getters
 185   should be used instead.
 186 * DifferenceEngine::getDiffBodyCacheKey() is deprecated. Subclasses should
 187   override DifferenceEngine::getDiffBodyCacheKeyParams() instead.
 188 * The deprecated MW_DIFF_VERSION constant was removed.
 189   DifferenceEngine::MW_DIFF_VERSION should be used instead.
 190 * Use of Maintenance::error( $err, $die ) to exit script was deprecated. Use
 191   Maintenance::fatalError() instead.
 192 * Passing a ParserOptions object to OutputPage::parserOptions() is deprecated.
 193 * Browser support for Opera 12 and older was removed.
 194   Opera 15+ continues at Grade A support.
 195 * The Block class will no longer accept usable-but-missing usernames for
 196   'byText' or ->setBlocker(). Callers should either ensure the blocker exists
 197   locally or use a new interwiki-format username like "iw>Example".
 198 * The RevisionInsertComplete hook is now deprecated, use RevisionRecordInserted instead.
 199   RevisionInsertComplete is still called, but the second and third parameter will always be null.
 200   Hard deprecation is scheduled for 1.32.
 201 * The following methods that get and set ParserOutput state are deprecated.
 202   Callers should use the new stateless $options parameter to
 203   ParserOutput::getText() instead.
 204   * ParserOptions::getEditSection()
 205   * ParserOptions::setEditSection()
 206   * ParserOutput::getEditSectionTokens()
 207   * ParserOutput::setEditSectionTokens()
 208   * ParserOutput::getTOCEnabled()
 209   * ParserOutput::setTOCEnabled()
 210   * OutputPage::enableSectionEditLinks()
 211   * OutputPage::sectionEditLinksEnabled()
 212   * The public ParserOutput state fields $mTOCEnabled and $mEditSectionTokens are also deprecated.
 213 * The following methods and constants from the WatchedItem class, which were deprecated in
 214   1.27, have been removed.
 215   * WatchedItem::getTitle()
 216   * WatchedItem::fromUserTitle()
 217   * WatchedItem::addWatch()
 218   * WatchedItem::removeWatch()
 219   * WatchedItem::isWatched()
 220   * WatchedItem::duplicateEntries()
 221   * WatchedItem::IGNORE_USER_RIGHTS
 222   * WatchedItem::CHECK_USER_RIGHTS
 223   * WatchedItem::DEPRECATED_USAGE_TIMESTAMP
 224 * The $statementsOnOwnLine parameter of JavaScriptMinifier::minify was removed.
 225   The corresponding configuration variable ($wgResourceLoaderMinifierStatementsOnOwnLine)
 226   has been deprecated since 1.27 and was removed as well.
 227 * The $maxLineLength parameter of JavaScriptMinifier::minify was removed.
 228   The corresponding configuration variable ($wgResourceLoaderMinifierMaxLineLength)
 229   has been deprecated since 1.27 and was removed as well.
 230 * The HtmlFormatter class was removed (deprecated in 1.27). The namespaced
 231   HtmlFormatter\HtmlFormatter class should be used instead.
 232 * License::getLicenses has been deprecated; use License::getLines instead.
 233 * The driver 'mysql' for MySQL, deprecated in MediaWiki 1.30, has been removed.
 234   The driver has been deprecated since PHP 5.5 and was removed in PHP 7.0. The
 235   default driver for MySQL has been 'mysqli' since MediaWiki 1.22.
 236 * The following properties of PreparedEdit were deprecated in 1.21 and have been removed:
 237   * PreparedEdit->newText
 238   * PreparedEdit->oldText
 239   * PreparedEdit->pst
 240 * QuickTemplate::setRef() was deprecated in favour of QuickTemplate::set().
 241   Setting template variables by reference allowed violating the principle of data being
 242   immutable once added to the skin template. In practice, this method was not being
 243   used for that. Rather, setRef() existed as memory optimisation for PHP 4.
 244 * QuickTemplate::setTranslator() was deprecated in favour of Skin::msg() parameters.
 245 * MediaWikiI18N::set() was deprecated in favour of Skin::msg() parameters.
 246 * MediaWikiI18N::translate() was deprecated in favour of Skin::msg() or wfMessage().
 247 * Passing false to ParserOptions::setWrapOutputClass() is deprecated. Use the
 248   'unwrap' transform to ParserOutput::getText() instead.
 249 * ParserOutput objects generated using a non-default value for
 250   ParserOptions::setWrapOutputClass() can no longer be added to the parser
 251   cache.
 252 * The following deprecated methods from the OutputPage class have been removed:
 253   * OutputPage::addExtensionStyle(); deprecated in 1.27
 254   * OutputPage::getExtStyle(); deprecated in 1.27
 255   * OutputPage::setETag(); deprecated in 1.28 (obsolete no-op)
 256   * OutputPage::setSquidMaxage(); deprecated in 1.27
 257   * OutputPage::readOnlyPage(); deprecated in 1.25
 258   * OutputPage::rateLimited(); deprecated in 1.25
 259   * Additionally, the protected OutputPage::$mExtStyles array, only accessed through
 260     the above and with no known uses, was removed.
 261 * The no-op method Skin::showIPinHeader(), deprecated in 1.27, was removed.
 262 * \ObjectFactory (no namespace) is deprecated, the namespaced \Wikimedia\ObjectFactory
 263   from the wikimedia/object-factory library should be used instead.
 264 * CommentStore::newKey is deprecated. Get an instance from MediaWikiServices instead.
 265 * The following CommentStore methods have had their signatures changed to introduce a $key parameter,
 266   usage of the methods on instances retrieved from CommentStore::newKey will remain unchanged but deprecated:
 267   * CommentStore::getFields
 268   * CommentStore::getJoin
 269   * CommentStore::getComment
 270   * CommentStore::getCommentLegacy
 271   * CommentStore::insert
 272   * CommentStore::insertWithTemplate
 273 * The following methods in Title have been renamed, and the old ones are deprecated:
 274   * Title::getSkinFromCssJsSubpage – use ::getSkinFromConfigSubpage
 275   * Title::isCssOrJsPage – use ::isSiteConfigPage
 276   * Title::isCssJsSubpage – use ::isUserConfigPage
 277   * Title::isCssSubpage – use ::isUserCssConfigPage
 278   * Title::isJsSubpage – use ::isUserJsConfigPage
 279 * The following variables and methods in EditPage, deprecated in MediaWiki 1.30, were removed:
 280   * $isCssJsSubpage — use ::isUserConfigPage()
 281   * $isCssSubpage — use ::isUserCssConfigPage()
 282   * $isJsSubpage — use ::isUserJsConfigPage()
 283   * $isWrongCaseCssJsPage – use ::isWrongCaseUserConfigPage()
 284   * ::getSummaryInput() – use ::getSummaryInputWidget()
 285   * ::getSummaryInputOOUI() – use ::getSummaryInputWidget()
 286   * ::getCheckboxes() – use ::getCheckboxesWidget() or ::getCheckboxesDefinition()
 287   * ::getCheckboxesOOUI() – use ::getCheckboxesWidget() or ::getCheckboxesDefinition()
 288 * The method ResourceLoaderModule::getPosition(), deprecated in 1.29, has been removed.
 289 * The DeferredStringifier class is deprecated, use Message::listParam() instead.
 290 * The type string for the parameter $lang of DateFormatter::getInstance is
 291   deprecated.
 292 * In User, the cookie-related methods which were wrappers for the functions on the response
 293   object, and were deprecated in 1.27, have been removed:
 294   * ::setCookie()
 295   * ::clearCookie()
 296   * ::setExtendedLoginCookie()
 297   Note that User::setCookies() remains, and is not deprecated.
 298 * Also in User, some auth-related methods which were deprecated in 1.27, have been removed:
 299   * ::getEditTokenTimestamp() – use MediaWiki\Session\Token::getTimestamp()
 300   * ::getPasswordFactory() – create a PasswordFactory directly
 301   * ::passwordChangeInputAttribs()
 302 * The global functions wfProfileIn and wfProfileOut, deprecated in 1.25, have been removed.
 303 * The following methods related to caching of half-parsed HTML were deprecated:
 304   * Parser::serializeHalfParsedText()
 305   * Parser::unserializeHalfParsedText()
 306   * Parser::isValidHalfParsedText()
 307   * StripState::getSubState()
 308   * StripState::merge()
 309 * The "free" CSS class is now only applied to unbracketed URLs in wikitext. Links
 310   written using square brackets will get the class "text" not "free".
 311 * SpecialPageFactory::getList(), deprecated in 1.24, has been removed. You can
 312   use ::getNames() instead.
 313 * OpenSearch::getOpenSearchTemplate(), deprecated in 1.25, has been removed. You
 314   can use ApiOpenSearch::getOpenSearchTemplate() instead.
 315 * The global function wfBaseConvert, deprecated in 1.27, has been removed. Use
 316   Wikimedia\base_convert() directly.
 317 * RFC 157418: Whitespace is trimmed from wikitext headings, wikitext list items,
 318   wikitext table captions, wikitext table headings, wikitext table cells. HTML
 319   headings, HTML list items, HTML table captions, HTML table headings, HTML table cells
 320   will not have this trimming behavior.
 321 * Calling Database::begin() explicitly during an implicit transaction or when DBO_TRX
 322   is set results in an exception. Calling Database::commit() explicitly for an implicit
 323   transaction also results in an exception. Previously these were logged as errors.
 324   The startAtomic() and endAtomic() methods, or AtomicSectionUpdate should be used
 325   instead.
 326 * The global function wfOutputHandler() was removed, use the its replacement
 327   MediaWiki\OutputHandler::handle() instead. The global function was only sometimes defined.
 328   Its replacement is always available via the autoloader.
 329 * ChangeTags::listExtensionActivatedTags and ::listExtensionDefinedTags, deprecated
 330   in 1.28, have been removed.  Use ::listSoftwareActivatedTags() and
 331   ::listSoftwareDefinedTags() instead.
 332 * Title::getTitleInvalidRegex(), deprecated in 1.25, has been removed. You
 333   can use MediaWikiTitleCodec::getTitleInvalidRegex() instead.
 334 * HTMLForm & VFormHTMLForm::isVForm(), deprecated in 1.25, have been removed.
 335 * The ProfileSection class, deprecated in 1.25 and unused, has been removed.
 336 * Wikimedia\Rdbms\SavepointPostgres is deprecated.
 337
 338 == Compatibility ==
 339 MediaWiki 1.31 requires PHP 5.5.9 or later. Although HHVM 3.18.5 or later is supported,
 340 it is generally advised to use PHP 5.5.9 or later for long term support.
 341
 342 MySQL/MariaDB is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used,
 343 but support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for
 344 Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
 345
 346 The supported versions are:
 347
 348 * MySQL 5.0.3 or later
 349 * PostgreSQL 9.2 or later
 350 * SQLite 3.3.7 or later
 351 * Oracle 9.0.1 or later
 352 * Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (9.00.1399)
 353
 354 == Upgrading ==
 355 1.31 has several database changes since 1.30, and will not work without schema
 356 updates. Note that due to changes to some very large tables like the revision
 357 table, the schema update may take quite long (minutes on a medium sized site,
 358 many hours on a large site).
 359
 360 Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
 361
 362 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions, including
 363 important information when upgrading from versions prior to 1.11.
 364
 365 For notes on 1.30.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
 366
 367 == Online documentation ==
 368 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is available on
 369 MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except
 370 for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain):
 371
 372        https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Documentation
 373
 374 == Mailing list ==
 375 A mailing list is available for MediaWiki user support and discussion:
 376
 377        https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
 378
 379 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
 380
 381        https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
 382
 383 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
 384 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
 385
 386 == IRC help ==
 387 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net.