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1 == MediaWiki 1.32 ==
2
3 THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
4
5 MediaWiki 1.32 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in
6 production.
7
8 === Configuration changes in 1.32 ===
9
10 ==== New configuration ====
11 * $wgJpegQuality – The quality of JPEG thumbnails is now configurable through
12 this setting. The default is 80, which matches the quality of JPEG thumbnails
13 previously generated by ImageMagick. The quality of JPEG thumbnails generated
14 by GD was previously 95, but now uses the $wgJpegQuality setting as well.
15 * $wgCookieSetOnIpBlock - This determines whether to set a cookie when an IP
16 user is blocked. Doing so means that a blocked user, even after moving to a
17 new IP address, will still be blocked.
18 * $wgRawHtmlMessages – This new configuration setting is added for listing
19 messages which are displayed as raw HTML.
20 * $wgCSPHeader and $wgCSPReportOnlyHeader – You can now define a
21 "Content Security Policy" for your wiki. This adds a defense-in-depth feature
22 to stop an attacker who has found a bug in the parser allowing them to insert
23 malicious attributes. Disabled by default. (T135963)
24 * $wgGroupPermissions – A new user group, 'interface-admin', is added for
25 controlling access to sitewide CSS/JS (and editing other users' CSS/JS). No
26 other group has 'editsitecss', 'editusercss', 'editsitejs' or 'edituserjs'
27 by default.
28 * $wgGrantPermissions – A new grant group, 'editsiteconfig', is added for
29 granting the above rights.
30
31 ==== Changed configuration ====
32 * $wgUseAjax – This setting, deprecated in 1.31, is now ignored.
33 * $wgDefaultUserOptions – The default watchlist view time (watchlistdays) has
34 been increased from 3 to 7 days. (T194414)
35 * $wgGroupPermissions – The right to edit sitewide Javascript
36 (e.g. MediaWiki:Common.js), CSS or JSON was separated from 'editinterface'
37 and is available under 'editsitejs'/'editsitecss'/'editsitejson'. Having
38 'editinterface' is still necessary to edit such pages.
39 * $wgMultiContentRevisionSchemaMigrationStage now defaults to writing both the
40 old and the new schema, but reading the new schema, so Multi-Content Revisions
41 (MCR) are now functional per default. The new default value of the setting is
42 SCHEMA_COMPAT_WRITE_BOTH | SCHEMA_COMPAT_READ_NEW.
43 * $wgActorTableSchemaMigrationStage no longer accepts MIGRATION_WRITE_BOTH or
44 MIGRATION_WRITE_NEW. It instead uses SCHEMA_COMPAT_WRITE_BOTH |
45 SCHEMA_COMPAT_READ_OLD and SCHEMA_COMPAT_WRITE_BOTH | SCHEMA_COMPAT_READ_NEW
46 for intermediate stages of migration.
47
48 ==== Removed configuration ====
49 * $wgEnableAPI and $wgEnableWriteAPI – These settings, deprecated in 1.31,
50 have been removed. (T115414)
51 * $wgSiteSupportPage – This setting, unused since 1.5, was removed.
52 * $wgBrowserBlacklist – This setting, deprecated in 1.30, was removed.
53 * $wgExperimentalHtmlIds – This setting, deprecated since 1.30, was removed.
54 The 'html5-legacy' value for $wgFragmentMode is no longer accepted.
55 * $wgPasswordSenderName - This setting, ignored since 1.23 by MediaWiki and
56 most extensions, is no longer set. Instead, you can modify the system
57 message `emailsender`.
58 * $wgTidyConfig – The experimental Html5Internal and Html5Depurate tidy drivers
59 were removed. RemexHtml, which is the default, should be used instead.
60
61 === New features in 1.32 ===
62 * (T112474) Generalized the ResourceLoader mechanism for overriding modules
63 using a particular page during edit previews.
64 * (T12331) You can now log page creation events by setting $wgPageCreationLog
65 to true.
66 * Added 'ApiParseMakeOutputPage' hook.
67 * (T174313) Added checkbox on Special:ListUsers to display only users in
68 temporary user groups.
69 * (T152462) A cookie can now be set when an IP user is blocked to track that
70 user if they move to a new IP address. This is disabled by default.
71 * (T194950) Added 'ApiMaxLagInfo' hook.
72 * SpecialPage::checkLoginSecurityLevel() will now preserve POST data when
73 reauthenticating.
74 * FormSpecialPage::execute() will now call checkLoginSecurityLevel() if
75 getLoginSecurityLevel() returns non-false.
76 * The 'ImageBeforeProduceHTML' hook is now passed three new parameters, $parser,
77 &$query and &$widthOption, allowing extensions even finer control over the
78 resulting HTML code.
79 * Added new 'ArticleShowPatrolFooter' hook, which allows extensions to determine
80 if the [mark as patrolled] link should be shown at the footer of patrollable
81 pages.
82 * The array of hidden options ($opts) passed to the 'SpecialSearchPowerBox' hook
83 is now passed by reference, allowing extensions to modify or even unset it.
84 * Added new 'OutputPageAfterGetHeadLinksArray' hook, allowing extensions to
85 modify the return value of OutputPage#getHeadLinksArray in order to add,
86 remove or otherwise alter the elements to be output in the page <head>.
87 * (T28934) The 'HistoryPageToolLinks' hook allows extensions to append
88 additional links to the subtitle of a history page.
89 * The 'GetLinkColours' hook now receives an additional $title parameter,
90 the Title object of the page being parsed, on which the links will be shown.
91 * (T194731) DifferenceEngine supports multiple slots. Added SlotDiffRenderer to
92 render diffs between two Content objects, and DifferenceEngine::setRevisions()
93 to render diffs between two custom (potentially multi-content) revisions.
94 Added GetSlotDiffRenderer hook which works like GetDifferenceEngine for slots.
95 * Added a temporary action=mcrundo to the web UI, as the normal undo logic
96 can't yet handle MCR and deadlines are forcing is to put off fixing that.
97 This action should be considered deprecated and should not be used directly.
98 * Extensions overriding ContentHandler::getUndoContent() will need to be
99 updated for the changed method signature.
100 * Added a new hook, 'UserGetRightsRemove', which can be used to remove rights
101 from user. Unlike the 'UserGetRights' it will ensure that removed rights
102 will not be reinserted.
103
104 === External library changes in 1.32 ===
105
106 ==== New external libraries ====
107 * Added wikimedia/xmp-reader 0.6.0.
108 * Added Add pear/Net_SMTP 1.8.0.
109 * …
110
111 ==== Changed external libraries ====
112 * Updated qunitjs from 2.4.0 to 2.6.2.
113 * Updated wikimedia/scoped-callback from 1.0.0 to 2.0.0.
114 ** ScopedCallback objects can no longer be serialized.
115 * Updated wikimedia/wrappedstring from 2.3.0 to 3.0.1.
116 * Updated mediawiki/mediawiki-codesniffer from v20.0.0 to v21.0.0.
117 * Updated composer/spdx-licenses from 1.3.0 to 1.4.0.
118 * Updated jquery.i18n from 1.0.4 to 1.0.5.
119 * Updated wikimedia/timestamp from 1.0.0 to 2.2.0.
120 * Updated wikimedia/remex-html from 1.0.3 to 2.0.0.
121 * Updated jquery from v3.2.1 to v3.3.1.
122
123 ==== Removed external libraries ====
124 * pear/mail_mime-decode was removed.
125 * …
126
127 === Bug fixes in 1.32 ===
128 * SpecialPage::execute() will now only call checkLoginSecurityLevel() if
129 getLoginSecurityLevel() returns non-false.
130 * (T43720, T46197) Improved page display title handling for category pages
131 * (T65080) Fixed resetting options of some types via API action=options.
132
133 === Action API changes in 1.32 ===
134 * Added templated parameters.
135 * A module can define a templated parameter like "{fruit}-quantity", where
136 the actual parameters recognized correspond to the values of a multi-valued
137 parameter. Then clients can make requests like
138 "fruits=apples|bananas&apples-quantity=1&bananas-quantity=5".
139 * action=paraminfo will return templated parameter definitions separately
140 from normal parameters. All parameter definitions now include an "index"
141 key to allow clients to maintain parameter ordering when merging normal and
142 templated parameters.
143 * It is now an error to submit too many values for a multi-valued parameter.
144 This has generated a warning since MediaWiki 1.14.
145 * Assertion failures from the 'assert' and 'assertuser' parameters will no
146 longer use the action module's custom response format, for the few modules
147 that use custom formatters that handle errors.
148 * (T198935) User list preferences such as `email-blacklist` and similar
149 extension preferences are no longer represented as arrays when returned by
150 action=query&meta=userinfo&uiprop=options.
151 * 'missingparam' errors will now use the prefixed parameter name in the code
152 and error text, e.g. "noxxfoo" and "The 'xxfoo' parameter must be set" rather
153 than "nofoo" and "The 'foo' parameter must be set".
154 * action=query&prop=revisions now takes a 'rvslots' parameter to indicate the
155 multi-content revision slots for which content should be returned. It also
156 has a new rvprop, 'roles', to indicate which roles have slots. A deprecation
157 warning will be issued if rvprop=content or rvprop=contentmodel are used
158 without rvslots.
159 * The rvcontentformat parameter to action=query&prop=revisions has been
160 deprecated. Clients should be prepared to deal with the default format for
161 relevant models.
162 * Use of the deprecated parameters rvexpandtemplates, rvgeneratexml, rvparse,
163 rvdiffto, rvdifftotext, rvdifftotextpst, rvcontentformat, or the deprecated
164 rvprop=parsetree is forbidden with the new 'rvslots' parameter.
165 * action=query&prop=deletedrevisions, action=query&list=allrevisions, and
166 action=query&list=alldeletedrevisions are changed similarly to
167 &prop=revisions (see the three previous items).
168 * (T174032) action=compare now supports multi-content revisions.
169 * It has a 'slots' parameter to select diffing of individual slots. The
170 default behavior is to return one combined diff.
171 * The 'fromtext', 'fromsection', 'fromcontentmodel', 'fromcontentformat',
172 'totext', 'tosection', 'tocontentmodel', and 'tocontentformat' parameters
173 are deprecated. Specify the new 'fromslots' and 'toslots' to identify which
174 slots have text supplied and the corresponding templated parameters for
175 each slot.
176 * The behavior of 'fromsection' and 'tosection' of extracting one section's
177 content is not being preserved. 'fromsection-{slot}' and 'tosection-{slot}'
178 instead expand the given text as if for a section edit. This effectively
179 declines T183823 in favor of T185723.
180 * (T198214) The 'disabletidy' parameter to action=parse has been
181 deprecated; untidy output will not be supported by future wikitext
182 parsers.
183 * Added intestactionsdetail to action=query&prop=info to allow retrieving the
184 reasons an action is not allowed.
185 * Deprecated action=query&prop=info inprop=readable in favor of
186 intestactions=read.
187
188 === Action API internal changes in 1.32 ===
189 * Added 'ApiParseMakeOutputPage' hook.
190 * Parameter names may no longer contain '{' or '}', as these are now used for
191 templated parameters.
192 * (T194950) Added 'ApiMaxLagInfo' hook.
193 * The following methods now take a RevisionRecord rather than a Revision. No
194 external callers are known.
195 * ApiFeedContributions::feedItemAuthor()
196 * ApiFeedContributions::feedItemDesc()
197 * ApiQueryRevisionsBase::extractRevisionInfo()
198 * The following deprecated methods have been removed:
199 * ApiBase::profileIn() (deprecated in 1.25)
200 * ApiBase::profileOut() (deprecated in 1.25)
201 * ApiBase::safeProfileOut() (deprecated in 1.25)
202 * ApiBase::profileDBIn() (deprecated in 1.25)
203 * ApiBase::profileDBOut() (deprecated in 1.25)
204 * ApiBase::dieUsage() (deprecated in 1.29)
205 * ApiBase::dieUsageMsg() (deprecated in 1.29)
206 * ApiBase::dieUsageMsgOrDebug() (deprecated in 1.29)
207 * ApiBase::getErrorFromStatus() (deprecated in 1.29)
208 * ApiBase::parseMsg() (deprecated in 1.29)
209 * ApiBase::setWarning() (deprecated in 1.29)
210 * ApiPageSet::getInvalidTitles() (deprecated in 1.26)
211 * ApiQueryLogEvents::addLogParams() (deprecated in 1.25)
212 * ApiUsageException::getCodeString() (deprecated in 1.29)
213 * ApiUsageException::getMessageArray() (deprecated in 1.29)
214 * Class UsageException, deprecated in 1.29, has been removed.
215 * ApiErrorFormatter: Added getFormat() and newWithFormat(). In particular, you
216 can now easily test $formatter->getFormat() === 'bc', and then call
217 $formatter->newWithFormat( 'plaintext' ) to get a non-BC formatter.
218
219 === Languages updated in 1.32 ===
220 MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated regularly.
221 Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as changes to languages
222 because of Phabricator reports.
223
224 * (T193566) Added language support for Ambonese Malay (abs).
225 * (T194047) Added language support for Shawiya, Latin script (shy-latn).
226 * (T195940) Added language support for Batak Mandailing (btm).
227 * (T137491) Added language support for Standard Moroccan Amazigh (zgh).
228 * (T198132) Added language support for Manipuri (mni).
229 * (T201276) Added language support for Western Armenian (hyw).
230 * (T201583) Added language support for Mon (mnw).
231
232 === Breaking changes in 1.32 ===
233 * $wgRequestTime, deprecated in 1.25, was removed. Use
234 $_SERVER['REQUEST_TIME_FLOAT'] or WebRequest::getElapsedTime() instead.
235 * The MediaWikiI18N class, deprecated in 1.31, was removed.
236 * QuickTemplate::setTranslator(), deprecated in 1.31, was removed. Use
237 Skin::msg() instead.
238 * wfInitShellLocale(), deprecated in 1.30, was removed.
239 * wfShellExecDisabled(), deprecated in 1.30, was removed.
240 * The type string for the parameter $lang of DateFormatter::getInstance,
241 deprecated in 1.31, was removed.
242 * The EDIT_TOKEN_SUFFIX constant deprecated in 1.27, was removed. Use
243 MediaWiki\Session\Token::SUFFIX instead.
244 * EditPage::isOouiEnabled() deprecated in 1.30, was removed.
245 * mw.util.wikiGetlink(), deprecated in 1.23, was removed. Use mw.util.getUrl()
246 instead.
247 * (T61113) The following methods and constants from the Revision class, which
248 were deprecated in 1.25, have now been removed:
249 * Revision::getRawUser()
250 * Revision::getRawUserText()
251 * Revision::getRawComment()
252 * window.gM() from mediawiki.jqueryMsg, deprecated in 1.23, was removed. Use
253 mw.msg() or mw.message() instead.
254 * mw.util.escapeId(), deprecated in 1.30, was removed. Use
255 mw.util.escapeIdForAttribute or mw.util.escapeIdForLink instead.
256 * mw.util.updateTooltipAccessKeys(), deprecated in 1.24, was removed. Use
257 jquery.accessKeyLabel instead.
258 * The SqlDataUpdate class, deprecated in 1.28, has been removed.
259 * The Html5Internal and Html5Depurate tidy driver classes were removed, along
260 with the Balancer tidy implementation. Both implementations were experimental,
261 and were replaced by RemexHtml.
262 * (T179624) Job::insert() and ::batchInsert(), deprecated in 1.21, were both
263 removed. Use JobQueueGroup::singleton()->push() instead.
264 * The jquery.footHovzer module, for mediawiki.debug, was removed.
265 * The es5-shim module, empty and deprecated since 1.29, was removed.
266 * the dom-level2-shim module, empty and deprecated since 1.29, was removed.
267 * the json module, empty and deprecated since 1.29, was removed.
268 * The mediawiki.widgets.visibleByteLimit module alias, deprecated in 1.32, was
269 removed. Use mediawiki.widgets.visibleLengthLimit instead.
270 * The jquery.farbtastic module, unused since 1.18, was removed.
271 * The 'jquery.expandableField' module, unused since 1.22, was removed.
272 * (T181318) The $wgStyleVersion setting and its appendage to various script and
273 style URLs in OutputPage, deprecated in 1.31, was removed.
274 * The hooks 'PreferencesFormPreSave' and 'PreferencesGetLegend' may provide
275 any HTMLForm object rather than PreferencesForm.
276 * The non namespaced TimestampException class, deprecated in 1.29, was removed.
277 Use Wikimedia\Timestamp\TimestampException instead.
278 * The global functions codepointToUtf8, hexSequenceToUtf8, utf8ToHexSequence,
279 utf8ToCodepoint, and escapeSingleString (deprecated in 1.25) were removed.
280 The UtfNormal\Utils class from the utfnormal library should be used instead.
281 * The deprecated UTF8_ and UNICODE_ constants were removed. The class constants
282 from the UtfNormal\Constants class from the utfnormal library should be used
283 * (T140807) The wgResourceLoaderLESSImportPaths configuration option was removed
284 from ResourceLoader. Instead, use `@import` statements in LESS to import
285 files directly from nearby directories within the same project.
286 * (T140804) The wgResourceLoaderLESSVars configuration option, deprecated
287 since 1.30, was removed. Instead, to expose variables from PHP to LESS, use
288 the ResourceLoaderModule::getLessVars() method.
289 * The protected methods PHPSessionHandler::returnSuccess() and returnFailure(),
290 only needed for PHP5 compatibility, have been removed. It now uses the boolean
291 values `true` and `false` respectively.
292 * The $parserMemc global and wfGetParserCacheStorage(), deprecated since 1.30,
293 were removed. Use the ParserCache class instead.
294 * ScopedCallback (deprecated in 1.28) was removed. Use Wikimedia\ScopedCallback
295 instead.
296 * Support for ResourceLoaderModule::getModifiedTime() and getModifiedHash(),
297 deprecated since 1.26, was removed. Use getDefinitionSummary() instead.
298 * (T195256) Skins are recommended not to rely on JavaScript for the "mw-jump"
299 and "jump-to-nav" accessibility links. To this end, the "jquery.mw-jump"
300 is no longer loaded by default. The Vector and MonoBook skins have made a
301 minor change to implement the toggle feature with CSS instead. To restore
302 prior functionality, either explicitly load "jquery.mw-jump" in your skin
303 or refer to T195256 for details on how to make the same change.
304 * Hook 'EditPageBeforeEditChecks' was removed;
305 use 'EditPageGetCheckboxesDefinition' instead.
306 * Linker::getLinkColour() and DummyLinker::getLinkColour(), deprecated since
307 1.28, were removed. LinkRenderer::getLinkClasses() should be used instead.
308 * Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer::getLaggedSlaveMode(), deprecated in 1.28, has
309 been removed. Use Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer::getLaggedReplicaMode()
310 instead.
311 * mw.widgets.CategoryMultiselectWidget now uses TagMultiselectWidget instead of
312 CapsuleMultiselectWidget. The following methods may no longer be used:
313 * setItemsFromData: Use setValue instead
314 * getItemsData: Use getItems instead and get the data property
315 * Two OutputPage methods, addMetadataLink() and getMetadataAttribute(), were
316 removed. Use addLink() instead.
317 * Another two OutputPage methods, setPageTitleActionText() and
318 getPageTitleActionText(), were removed. They did nothing since 1.15 (almost
319 ten years). Use setHTMLTitle() directly.
320 * The return value of OutputPage::adaptCdnTTL() has been removed. The
321 value returned was misleading and probably not what any caller would
322 have wanted.
323 * All MagicWord static member variables have been removed. Use appropriate
324 hooks or MagicWordFactory methods instead.
325 * MagicWord::clearCache() has been removed. Instead, create a new
326 MagicWordFactory, such as by calling
327 resetServiceForTesting( 'MagicWordFactory' ) on a MediaWikiServices.
328 * mw.util.init() has been removed. This function is not needed anymore and was
329 a no-op function since 1.30.
330 * SpecialPageFactory::resetList() is a no-op. Call overrideMwServices()
331 instead.
332 * MediaWiki no longer supports a StartProfiler.php file.
333 Define $wgProfiler via LocalSettings.php instead.
334 * The mw.loader.addSource() is now considered a private method, and no longer
335 supports the `id, url` signature. Use the `Object` parameter instead.
336 * The backwards-compatibility code in HTMLForm to add a drop-down control to an
337 option that is not set to be a drop-down if the "mw-chosen" class is present,
338 is now removed.
339 * Several collations were removed. They were workarounds for bugs in the ICU
340 library and they are no longer needed (as of ICU 57.1):
341 * 'uppercase-se' (NorthernSamiUppercaseCollation) - use 'uca-se' instead
342 * 'xx-uca-et' (CollationEt) - use 'uca-et' instead
343 * 'xx-uca-fa' (CollationFa) - use 'uca-fa' instead
344 * LanguageCode::bcp47() now always returns a valid BCP 47 code. This means
345 that some MediaWiki-specific language codes, such as `simple`, are mapped
346 into valid BCP 47 codes (eg `en-simple`).
347 * The hooks 'SpecialRecentChangesFilters' & 'SpecialWatchlistFilters' deprecated
348 in 1.23 were removed. Instead, use 'ChangesListSpecialPageStructuredFilters'.
349 The ChangesListSpecialPage code for these legacy hooks, and their use in
350 SpecialRecentchanges.php and SpecialWatchlist, was also removed:
351 * ChangesListSpecialPage->getCustomFilters()
352 * ChangesListSpecialPage->getFilterGroupDefinitionFromLegacyCustomFilters()
353 * ChangesListSpecialPage::customFilters
354 * The global function wfUseMW, deprecated since 1.26, has now been removed. Use
355 the "requires" property of static extension registration instead.
356 * $wgSpecialPages no longer accepts array syntax, deprecated since 1.18.
357 * The MailAddress constructor can no longer be called with a User object,
358 behaviour which has been deprecated since 1.24.
359 * LBFactory, deprecated since 1.28, has been removed. Instead, use
360 Wikimedia\Rdbms\LBFactory.
361 * The MimeMagic class, deprecated since 1.28 has been removed. Get a
362 MimeAnalyzer instance from MediaWikiServices instead.
363 * The '--tidy' option to maintenance/parse.php has been removed. Tidying
364 the output is now the default. Use '--no-tidy' to bypass the tidy
365 phase.
366 * The global function wfErrorLog, deprecated since 1.25, has now been removed.
367 Use MWLoggerLegacyLogger::emit or UDPTransport.
368 * The hooks 'SpecialRecentChangesQuery' & 'SpecialWatchlistQuery', deprecated in
369 1.23, were removed. Instead, use ChangesListSpecialPageStructuredFilters or
370 ChangesListSpecialPageQuery.
371 * The global function wfUsePHP, deprecated since 1.30, has now been removed. To
372 assert a newer version of PHP than MediaWiki does, use extension registration.
373 * The hook 'ChangesListSpecialPageFilters', deprecated in 1.29, has now been
374 removed. Use the 'ChangesListSpecialPageStructuredFilters' hook instead.
375 * DeferredUpdates::setImmediateMode(), deprecated since 1.29, has been removed.
376 * File / MediaHandler::getStreamHeaders(), deprecated since 1.30, was removed.
377 * The hook 'DoEditSectionLink', deprecated since 1.25, has been removed. Use
378 the hook 'SkinEditSectionLinks' instead.
379 * The hook 'UserGetImplicitGroups', deprecated since 1.25, has been removed.
380 * The global function wfRunHooks, deprecated since 1.25, has now been removed.
381 Use Hooks::run().
382 * The hook 'UnknownAction', deprecated since 1.19, has now been removed.
383 * The hook 'ParserLimitReport', deprecated since 1.22, has been removed. Use
384 the hooks 'ParserLimitReportPrepare' and 'ParserLimitReportFormat' instead.
385 * The following deprecated API methods have been removed:
386 * ApiBase::profileIn() (deprecated in 1.25)
387 * ApiBase::profileOut() (deprecated in 1.25)
388 * ApiBase::safeProfileOut() (deprecated in 1.25)
389 * ApiBase::profileDBIn() (deprecated in 1.25)
390 * ApiBase::profileDBOut() (deprecated in 1.25)
391 * ApiBase::dieUsage() (deprecated in 1.29)
392 * ApiBase::dieUsageMsg() (deprecated in 1.29)
393 * ApiBase::dieUsageMsgOrDebug() (deprecated in 1.29)
394 * ApiBase::getErrorFromStatus() (deprecated in 1.29)
395 * ApiBase::parseMsg() (deprecated in 1.29)
396 * ApiBase::setWarning() (deprecated in 1.29)
397 * ApiPageSet::getInvalidTitles() (deprecated in 1.26)
398 * ApiQueryLogEvents::addLogParams() (deprecated in 1.25)
399 * ApiUsageException::getCodeString() (deprecated in 1.29)
400 * ApiUsageException::getMessageArray() (deprecated in 1.29)
401 * Class UsageException, deprecated in 1.29, has been removed.
402
403 === Deprecations in 1.32 ===
404 * HTMLForm::setSubmitProgressive() is deprecated. No need to call it. Submit
405 button is already marked as progressive.
406 * Skin::setupSkinUserCss() is deprecated. Adding of modules to load
407 has been centralised to Skin::getDefaultModules(), which is now capable
408 of queueing style modules as well.
409 * OutputPage::addModuleScripts() and ParserOutput::addModuleScripts are
410 deprecated. Use addModules() instead.
411 * Overriding SearchEngine::{searchText,searchTitle,searchArchiveTitle}
412 in extending classes is deprecated. Extend related doSearch* methods
413 instead.
414 * The following 'mediawiki.api' plugin modules were merged into mediawiki.api
415 and deprecated: mediawiki.api.category, mediawiki.api.edit,
416 mediawiki.api.login, mediawiki.api.options, mediawiki.api.parse,
417 mediawiki.api.upload, mediawiki.api.user, mediawiki.api.watch,
418 mediawiki.api.messages, and mediawiki.api.rollback.
419 * ApiBase::truncateArray() is deprecated. No replacement, as nothing is known
420 to use it.
421 * WatchAction::getUnwatchToken is deprecated. Use WatchAction::getWatchToken
422 with the 'unwatch' action parameter instead.
423 * IcuCollation::getICUVersion() is deprecated, as you can just use the PHP
424 constant INTL_ICU_VERSION directly in all versions that MediaWiki supports.
425 * Parser::fetchFile() is deprecated. Use ::fetchFileAndTitle() instead.
426 * The ApiQueryContributions class has been renamed to ApiQueryUserContribs.
427 * The XMPInfo, XMPReader, and XMPValidate classes have been deprecated in favor
428 of the namespaced classes provided by the wikimedia/xmp-reader library.
429 * SearchResultSet::{next,rewind} are deprecated. Calling code should
430 use foreach on the SearchResultSet, or the extractResults method. Extending
431 code should override extractResults.
432 * Instantiating SearchResultSet directly is deprecated. SearchEngine
433 implementations must subclass SearchResultSet for their purposes.
434 * SearchResult::setExtensionData argument has been changed from accepting an
435 array to accepting a Closure that returns the array when called.
436 * Class CryptRand, everything in MWCryptRand except generateHex() and function
437 MediaWikiServices::getCryptRand() are deprecated, use random_bytes() to
438 generate cryptographically secure random byte sequences.
439 * Parser::getConverterLanguage() is deprecated. Use ::getTargetLanguage()
440 instead.
441 * Language::markNoConversion() is deprecated. It confused readers because
442 it had unexpected behavior (only marking text if it looked like a URL)
443 and was only used in a single place in the code. Use
444 LanguageConverter::markNoConversion() instead.
445 * (T197492) Language::truncate() was soft deprecated in 1.31 and is
446 hard deprecated in this release. It has been split into two similar
447 methods, Language::truncateForVisual() and Language::truncateForDatabase(),
448 which measure length in characters and bytes, respectively. Use
449 Language::truncateForVisual() when possible to provide equity to users
450 of multibyte scripts.
451 * (T176526) EditPage::getContextTitle() falling back to $wgTitle when the
452 context title is unset is now deprecated; anything creating an EditPage
453 instance should set the context title via ::setContextTitle().
454 * The 'jquery.hidpi' module (polyfill for IMG srcset) is deprecated.
455 * ResourceLoaderStartUpModule::getStartupModules() and ::getLegacyModules()
456 are deprecated. These concepts are obsolete and have no replacement.
457 * String type for $lang of DifferenceEngine::setTextLanguage is deprecated.
458 * The following methods of OutputPage are now deprecated in favour
459 of using showFatalError directly: OutputPage::showFileDeleteError()
460 OutputPage::showFileNotFoundError(), OutputPage::showFileRenameError()
461 OutputPage::showFileCopyError() and OutputPage::showUnexpectedValueError().
462 * The Replacer, DoubleReplacer, HashtableReplacer, and RegexlikeReplacer
463 classes are now deprecated. Use a Closure instead.
464 * (T194263) ContentHandler::makeParserOptions() is deprecated. Use
465 WikiPage::makeParserOptions() or ParserOptions::newCanonical() instead.
466 * (T100681) Use of the Parsoid v1 API with the VirtualRESTService, deprecated in
467 MediaWiki 1.26, is now hard-deprecated. All known clients were converted to
468 the Parsoid v3 API in May 2015.
469 * $input is deprecated in hook 'LogEventsListGetExtraInputs'. Use
470 $formDescriptor instead.
471 * SearchEngine::transformSearchTerm( $term ) should no longer be called prior
472 to running searchText. This method was mainly implemented to support the
473 'prefix' URI param in SpecialSearch, but there are no reasons to expose this
474 logic as it should be handled internally by SearchEngine implementations
475 supporting this feature. SearchEngine implementations should no longer
476 override this methods.
477 * SearchEngine::replacePrefixes( $query ) should no longer be called prior
478 to running searchText/searchTitle.
479 * (T199657) Messages for $wgFilterLogTypes labels should be no longer be in the
480 'log-show-hide-[type]' format. Instead use 'logeventslist-[type]-log'.
481 * Global functions wfArrayFilter() and wfArrayFilterByKey() are deprecated.
482 use array_filter() directly.
483 * The $wgShowSQLErrors global is deprecated and nonfunctional.
484 Set $wgShowExceptionDetails and/or $wgShowHostnames instead.
485 * The $wgShowDBErrorBacktrace global is deprecated and nonfunctional.
486 Set $wgShowExceptionDetails instead.
487 * Public access to the DifferenceEngine properties mOldid, mNewid, mOldRev,
488 mNewRev, mOldPage, mNewPage, mOldContent, mNewContent, mRevisionsLoaded,
489 mTextLoaded and mCacheHit is deprecated. Use getOldid() / getNewid() /
490 getOldRevision() / getNewRevision() for the first four (note that the
491 revision ones return a RevisionRecord, not a Revision), do your own lookup
492 for page/content.
493 * The $wgExternalDiffEngine value 'wikidiff2' is deprecated. To use wikidiff2
494 just enable the PHP extension, and it will be autodetected.
495 * (T194731) DifferenceEngine properties mOldContent and mNewContent and methods
496 setContent(), generateContentDiffBody(), generateTextDiffBody() and textDiff()
497 are deprecated. To interact with a single slot, use a SlotDiffRenderer (and
498 subclass it to customize diff rendering); to diff custom (e.g. unsaved)
499 content, use setRevisions(). Subclassing DifferenceEngine should only be done
500 to customize page-level diff properties (such as the navigation header).
501 * The wfUseMW function, soft-deprecated in 1.26, is now hard deprecated.
502 * All MagicWord static methods are now deprecated. Use the MagicWordFactory
503 methods instead.
504 * PasswordFactory::init is deprecated. To get a password factory with the
505 standard configuration, use MediaWikiServices::getPasswordFactory.
506 * $wgContLang is deprecated, use MediaWikiServices::getContentLanguage()
507 instead.
508 * $wgParser is deprecated, use MediaWikiServices::getParser() instead.
509 * wfGetMainCache() is deprecated, use ObjectCache::getLocalClusterInstance()
510 instead.
511 * wfGetCache() is deprecated, use ObjectCache::getInstance() instead.
512 * All SpecialPageFactory static methods are deprecated. Instead, call the
513 methods on a SpecialPageFactory instance, which may be obtained from
514 MediaWikiServices.
515 * mw.user.stickyRandomId was renamed to the more explicit
516 mw.user.getPageviewToken to better capture its function.
517 * Passing Revision objects to ContentHandler::getUndoContent() is deprecated,
518 Content object should be passed instead.
519 * (T197179) Parameters 'notice', 'notice-messages', 'notice-message',
520 previously used by OOUI HTMLForm fields, are now deprecated. Use
521 'help', 'help-message', 'help-messages' instead.
522 * (T197179) HTMLFormField::getNotices() is now deprecated.
523 * The jquery.localize module is now deprecated. Use jquery.i18n instead.
524 * The SecondaryDataUpdates hook was deprecated in favor of RevisionDataUpdates,
525 or overriding ContentHandler::getSecondaryDataUpdates (T194038).
526 * The WikiPageDeletionUpdates hook was deprecated in favor of
527 PageDeletionDataUpdates, or overriding ContentHandler::getDeletionDataUpdates
528 (T194038).
529 * Content::getSecondaryDataUpdates has been deprecated in favor of
530 ContentHandler::getSecondaryDataUpdates() for overriding by extensions
531 (T194038).
532 Application logic should call WikiPage::doSecondaryDataUpdates() (T194037).
533 * Content::getDeletionUpdates has been deprecated in favor of
534 ContentHandler::getDeletionUpdates() for overriding by extensions (T194038).
535 Application logic should call WikiPage::doSecondaryDataUpdates() (T194037).
536 * (T198214) Old Tidy-related configuration settings, which were soft-deprecated
537 in MediaWiki 1.26, have now been hard deprecated. This affects $wgUseTidy,
538 $wgTidyBin, $wgTidyConf, $wgTidyOpts, $wgTidyInternal, and $wgDebugTidy. Use
539 $wgTidyConfig instead.
540 * All Tidy configurations other than Remex have been hard deprecated;
541 future parsers will not emit compatible output for these configurations.
542 * (T198214) OutputPage::addWikiText(), OutputPage::addWikiTextWithTitle(),
543 and OutputPage::addWikiTextTitle() have been deprecated, since they
544 can result in untidy output. In addition OutputPage::addWikiTextTidy()
545 and OutputPage::addWikiTextTitleTidy() was deprecated to make naming new
546 methods consistent. Use OutputPage::addWikiTextAsInterface() or
547 OutputPage::addWikiTextAsContent() instead, which ensures the output is
548 tidy and clarifies whether content-language specific postprocessing should
549 be done on the text.
550 * QuickTemplate::msgHtml() and BaseTemplate::msgHtml() have been deprecated
551 as they promote bad practises. I18n messages should always be properly
552 escaped.
553 * Skin::getDynamicStylesheetQuery() has been deprecated. It always
554 returns action=raw&ctype=text/css which callers should use directly.
555 * Class LegacyFormatter is deprecated.
556 * Use of CommentStore::insertWithTempTable() with 'img_description' is
557 deprecated. Use CommentStore::insert() instead.
558 * Language::setCode is deprecated as public function. Use Language::factory
559 to create a new Language object with a different language code.
560 * Several classes have been moved from the MediaWiki\Storage\ namespace to the
561 MediaWiki\Revision\ namespace. The old class names are aliased for
562 compatibility, but are deprecated. Classes are IncompleteRevisionException,
563 MutableRevisionRecord, MutableRevisionSlots, RevisionAccessException,
564 RevisionArchiveRecord, RevisionFactory, RevisionLookup, RevisionRecord,
565 RevisionSlots, RevisionStore, RevisionStoreRecord, SlotRecord, and
566 SuppressedDataException.
567 * When using OOUI HTMLForm containing an 'info' field which uses the 'rawrow'
568 option, it is now deprecated to give its contents (the 'default' option)
569 as a string. They should be given as a OOUI\FieldLayout object instead.
570 Notably, this affects fields defined in the 'GetPreferences' hook, because
571 Special:Preferences uses an OOUI form now. (If possible, don't use 'rawrow'.)
572 * In Skin::doEditSectionLink omitting the parameters $tooltip and $lang is
573 deprecated. For the $lang parameter, types other than Language are
574 deprecated.
575 * The $wgUseKeyHeader configuration option and the
576 OutputPage::getKeyHeader() method have been deprecated; the relevant
577 draft IETF spec expired without becoming a standard.
578 * Deprecated API action=query&prop=info inprop=readable in favor of
579 intestactions=read.
580
581 === Other changes in 1.32 ===
582 * (T198811) The following tables have had their UNIQUE indexes turned into
583 proper PRIMARY KEYs for increased maintainability: interwiki, page_props,
584 protected_titles and site_identifiers.
585 * OOUI HTMLForm will now display help text inline after the input field,
586 rather than in a popup. Previous behavior can be restored by using
587 `'help-inline' => false`.
588 * The archive table's ar_rev_id field is now unique.
589 * Special:BotPasswords now requires reauthentication.
590 * (T174023) Multi-Content Revision (MCR) capabilities were introduced into the
591 storage layer and have basic support for display. No user interface exists
592 yet for creating or managing content in slots beides the main slot. See
593 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multi-Content_Revisions> for more
594 information.
595 * The image_comment_temp database table is merged into the image table and
596 deprecated. Since access should be mediated by the CommentStore class, this
597 change shouldn't affect external code.
598 * (T206147) Database::close() will no longer commit any open transactions.
599
600 == Compatibility ==
601 MediaWiki 1.32 requires PHP 7.0.0 or later. Although HHVM 3.18.5 or later is
602 supported, it is generally advised to use PHP 7.0.0 or later for long term
603 support.
604
605 MySQL/MariaDB is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used,
606 but support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for
607 Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
608
609 The supported versions are:
610
611 * MySQL 5.5.8 or later
612 * PostgreSQL 9.2 or later
613 * SQLite 3.3.7 or later
614 * Oracle 9.0.1 or later
615 * Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (9.00.1399)
616
617 == Upgrading ==
618 1.32 has several database changes since 1.31, and will not work without schema
619 updates. Note that due to changes to some very large tables like the revision
620 table, the schema update may take quite long (minutes on a medium sized site,
621 many hours on a large site).
622
623 Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
624
625 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions, including
626 important information when upgrading from versions prior to 1.11.
627
628 For notes on 1.31.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
629
630 == Online documentation ==
631 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is available on
632 MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except
633 for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain):
634
635 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Documentation
636
637 == Mailing list ==
638 A mailing list is available for MediaWiki user support and discussion:
639
640 https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
641
642 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
643
644 https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
645
646 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
647 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
648
649 == IRC help ==
650 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net.