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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 * $wgDBDefaultGroup – A default database group for use by maintenance scripts.
31 * $wgResourceLoaderEnableJSProfiler – This new configuration setting lets you
32 enable client-side profiling of JavaScript modules; it is off by default.
33 * (T193868) $wgChangeTagsSchemaMigrationStage — This temporary configuration
34 setting allows sysadmins to gradually migrate the database table schema for
35 how change tags are stored.
36 * (T199334) $wgTagStatisticsNewTable — This temporary configuration setting
37 allows sysadmins to enable the caching of Special:Tags via the new
38 change_tag_def table.
39
40 ==== Changed configuration ====
41 * $wgUseAjax – This setting, deprecated in 1.31, is now ignored.
42 * $wgDefaultUserOptions – The default watchlist view time (watchlistdays) has
43 been increased from 3 to 7 days. (T194414)
44 * $wgGroupPermissions – The right to edit sitewide Javascript
45 (e.g. MediaWiki:Common.js), CSS or JSON was separated from 'editinterface'
46 and is available under 'editsitejs'/'editsitecss'/'editsitejson'. Having
47 'editinterface' is still necessary to edit such pages.
48 * $wgMultiContentRevisionSchemaMigrationStage now defaults to writing both the
49 old and the new schema, but reading the new schema, so Multi-Content Revisions
50 (MCR) are now functional per default. The new default value of the setting is
51 SCHEMA_COMPAT_WRITE_BOTH | SCHEMA_COMPAT_READ_NEW.
52 * $wgActorTableSchemaMigrationStage no longer accepts MIGRATION_WRITE_BOTH or
53 MIGRATION_WRITE_NEW. It instead uses SCHEMA_COMPAT_WRITE_BOTH |
54 SCHEMA_COMPAT_READ_OLD and SCHEMA_COMPAT_WRITE_BOTH | SCHEMA_COMPAT_READ_NEW
55 for intermediate stages of migration.
56 * $wgDBTableOptions – The default table options now use the binary charset. The
57 default was already overridden in the installer-generated LocalSettings.php,
58 and so is always set to binary after the installer UI option was removed. The
59 default value is only used when the installer installs an extension.
60 * $wgPopularPasswordFile — The location of the default popular passwords file
61 has been moved to be in line with other non-PHP files used by libraries and
62 classes.
63
64 ==== Removed configuration ====
65 * $wgEnableAPI and $wgEnableWriteAPI – These settings, deprecated in 1.31,
66 have been removed. (T115414)
67 * $wgSiteSupportPage – This setting, unused since 1.5, was removed.
68 * $wgBrowserBlacklist – This setting, deprecated in 1.30, was removed.
69 * $wgExperimentalHtmlIds – This setting, deprecated since 1.30, was removed.
70 The 'html5-legacy' value for $wgFragmentMode is no longer accepted.
71 * $wgPasswordSenderName - This setting, ignored since 1.23 by MediaWiki and
72 most extensions, is no longer set. Instead, you can modify the system
73 message `emailsender`.
74 * $wgTidyConfig – The experimental Html5Internal and Html5Depurate tidy drivers
75 were removed. RemexHtml, which is the default, should be used instead.
76 * (T181318) The $wgStyleVersion setting and its appendage to various script and
77 style URLs in OutputPage, deprecated in 1.31, was removed.
78 * (T140807) The wgResourceLoaderLESSImportPaths configuration option was removed
79 from ResourceLoader. Instead, use `@import` statements in LESS to import
80 files directly from nearby directories within the same project.
81 * (T140804) The wgResourceLoaderLESSVars configuration option, deprecated
82 since 1.30, was removed. Instead, to expose variables from PHP to LESS, use
83 the ResourceLoaderModule::getLessVars() method.
84 * $wgResourceLoaderValidateStaticJS – This setting, unused since MediaWiki 1.18,
85 was removed.
86 * Two temporary variables for deploying the feature of filters on change lists,
87 $wgStructuredChangeFiltersShowPreference introduced in MediaWiki 1.30 and
88 $wgStructuredChangeFiltersOnWatchlist in 1.31, were removed.
89
90 === New features in 1.32 ===
91 * (T112474) Generalized the ResourceLoader mechanism for overriding modules
92 using a particular page during edit previews.
93 * (T12331) You can now log page creation events by setting $wgPageCreationLog
94 to true.
95 * Added 'ApiParseMakeOutputPage' hook.
96 * (T174313) Added checkbox on Special:ListUsers to display only users in
97 temporary user groups.
98 * (T152462) A cookie can now be set when an IP user is blocked to track that
99 user if they move to a new IP address. This is disabled by default.
100 * (T194950) Added 'ApiMaxLagInfo' hook.
101 * SpecialPage::checkLoginSecurityLevel() will now preserve POST data when
102 reauthenticating.
103 * FormSpecialPage::execute() will now call checkLoginSecurityLevel() if
104 getLoginSecurityLevel() returns non-false.
105 * The 'ImageBeforeProduceHTML' hook is now passed three new parameters, $parser,
106 &$query and &$widthOption, allowing extensions even finer control over the
107 resulting HTML code.
108 * Added new 'ArticleShowPatrolFooter' hook, which allows extensions to determine
109 if the [mark as patrolled] link should be shown at the footer of patrollable
110 pages.
111 * The array of hidden options ($opts) passed to the 'SpecialSearchPowerBox' hook
112 is now passed by reference, allowing extensions to modify or even unset it.
113 * Added new 'OutputPageAfterGetHeadLinksArray' hook, allowing extensions to
114 modify the return value of OutputPage#getHeadLinksArray in order to add,
115 remove or otherwise alter the elements to be output in the page <head>.
116 * (T28934) The 'HistoryPageToolLinks' hook allows extensions to append
117 additional links to the subtitle of a history page.
118 * The 'GetLinkColours' hook now receives an additional $title parameter,
119 the Title object of the page being parsed, on which the links will be shown.
120 * (T194731) DifferenceEngine supports multiple slots. Added SlotDiffRenderer to
121 render diffs between two Content objects, and DifferenceEngine::setRevisions()
122 to render diffs between two custom (potentially multi-content) revisions.
123 Added GetSlotDiffRenderer hook which works like GetDifferenceEngine for slots.
124 * Added a temporary action=mcrundo to the web UI, as the normal undo logic
125 can't yet handle MCR and deadlines are forcing is to put off fixing that.
126 This action should be considered deprecated and should not be used directly.
127 * Extensions overriding ContentHandler::getUndoContent() will need to be
128 updated for the changed method signature.
129 * Added a new hook, 'UserGetRightsRemove', which can be used to remove rights
130 from user. Unlike the 'UserGetRights' it will ensure that removed rights
131 will not be reinserted.
132
133 === External library changes in 1.32 ===
134
135 ==== New external libraries ====
136 * Added wikimedia/xmp-reader 0.6.0.
137 * Added Add pear/Net_SMTP 1.8.0.
138 * Added EasyDeflate (unversioned).
139
140 ==== Changed external libraries ====
141 * Updated qunitjs from 2.4.0 to 2.6.2.
142 * Updated wikimedia/scoped-callback from 1.0.0 to 2.0.0.
143 ** ScopedCallback objects can no longer be serialized.
144 * Updated wikimedia/wrappedstring from 2.3.0 to 3.0.1.
145 * Updated mediawiki/mediawiki-codesniffer from v20.0.0 to v21.0.0.
146 * Updated composer/spdx-licenses from 1.3.0 to 1.4.0.
147 * Updated jquery.i18n from 1.0.4 to 1.0.5.
148 * Updated wikimedia/timestamp from 1.0.0 to 2.2.0.
149 * Updated wikimedia/remex-html from 1.0.3 to 2.0.1.
150 * Updated jquery from 3.2.1 to 3.3.1.
151 * Updated wikimedia/base-convert from 1.0.1 to 2.0.0
152 * Updated OOjs from 2.2.0 to 2.2.2
153 * Updated mustache.js from 0.8.2-d9aa703 to 1.0.0
154 * Updated sinonjs from 1.17.3 to 1.17.7
155 * Updated OOUI from 0.26.3 to 0.29.2
156 * Updated CLDRPluralRuleParser from 0.1.0 to 1.3.2-pre
157 * Updated jquery.client from 2.0.0 to 2.0.1.
158
159 ==== Removed external libraries ====
160 * pear/mail_mime-decode was removed.
161
162 === Bug fixes in 1.32 ===
163 * SpecialPage::execute() will now only call checkLoginSecurityLevel() if
164 getLoginSecurityLevel() returns non-false.
165 * (T43720, T46197) Improved page display title handling for category pages
166 * (T65080) Fixed resetting options of some types via API action=options.
167
168 === Action API changes in 1.32 ===
169 * Added templated parameters.
170 * A module can define a templated parameter like "{fruit}-quantity", where
171 the actual parameters recognized correspond to the values of a multi-valued
172 parameter. Then clients can make requests like
173 "fruits=apples|bananas&apples-quantity=1&bananas-quantity=5".
174 * action=paraminfo will return templated parameter definitions separately
175 from normal parameters. All parameter definitions now include an "index"
176 key to allow clients to maintain parameter ordering when merging normal and
177 templated parameters.
178 * It is now an error to submit too many values for a multi-valued parameter.
179 This has generated a warning since MediaWiki 1.14.
180 * Assertion failures from the 'assert' and 'assertuser' parameters will no
181 longer use the action module's custom response format, for the few modules
182 that use custom formatters that handle errors.
183 * (T198935) User list preferences such as `email-blacklist` and similar
184 extension preferences are no longer represented as arrays when returned by
185 action=query&meta=userinfo&uiprop=options.
186 * 'missingparam' errors will now use the prefixed parameter name in the code
187 and error text, e.g. "noxxfoo" and "The 'xxfoo' parameter must be set" rather
188 than "nofoo" and "The 'foo' parameter must be set".
189 * action=query&prop=revisions now takes a 'rvslots' parameter to indicate the
190 multi-content revision slots for which content should be returned. It also
191 has a new rvprop, 'roles', to indicate which roles have slots. A deprecation
192 warning will be issued if rvprop=content or rvprop=contentmodel are used
193 without rvslots.
194 * The rvcontentformat parameter to action=query&prop=revisions has been
195 deprecated. Clients should be prepared to deal with the default format for
196 relevant models.
197 * Use of the deprecated parameters rvexpandtemplates, rvgeneratexml, rvparse,
198 rvdiffto, rvdifftotext, rvdifftotextpst, rvcontentformat, or the deprecated
199 rvprop=parsetree is forbidden with the new 'rvslots' parameter.
200 * action=query&prop=deletedrevisions, action=query&list=allrevisions, and
201 action=query&list=alldeletedrevisions are changed similarly to
202 &prop=revisions (see the three previous items).
203 * (T174032) action=compare now supports multi-content revisions.
204 * It has a 'slots' parameter to select diffing of individual slots. The
205 default behavior is to return one combined diff.
206 * The 'fromtext', 'fromsection', 'fromcontentmodel', 'fromcontentformat',
207 'totext', 'tosection', 'tocontentmodel', and 'tocontentformat' parameters
208 are deprecated. Specify the new 'fromslots' and 'toslots' to identify which
209 slots have text supplied and the corresponding templated parameters for
210 each slot.
211 * The behavior of 'fromsection' and 'tosection' of extracting one section's
212 content is not being preserved. 'fromsection-{slot}' and 'tosection-{slot}'
213 instead expand the given text as if for a section edit. This effectively
214 declines T183823 in favor of T185723.
215 * (T198214) The 'disabletidy' parameter to action=parse has been
216 deprecated; untidy output will not be supported by future wikitext
217 parsers.
218 * Added intestactionsdetail to action=query&prop=info to allow retrieving the
219 reasons an action is not allowed.
220 * Deprecated action=query&prop=info inprop=readable in favor of
221 intestactions=read.
222
223 === Action API internal changes in 1.32 ===
224 * Added 'ApiParseMakeOutputPage' hook.
225 * Parameter names may no longer contain '{' or '}', as these are now used for
226 templated parameters.
227 * (T194950) Added 'ApiMaxLagInfo' hook.
228 * The following methods now take a RevisionRecord rather than a Revision. No
229 external callers are known.
230 * ApiFeedContributions::feedItemAuthor()
231 * ApiFeedContributions::feedItemDesc()
232 * ApiQueryRevisionsBase::extractRevisionInfo()
233 * The following deprecated methods have been removed:
234 * ApiBase::profileIn() (deprecated in 1.25)
235 * ApiBase::profileOut() (deprecated in 1.25)
236 * ApiBase::safeProfileOut() (deprecated in 1.25)
237 * ApiBase::profileDBIn() (deprecated in 1.25)
238 * ApiBase::profileDBOut() (deprecated in 1.25)
239 * ApiBase::dieUsage() (deprecated in 1.29)
240 * ApiBase::dieUsageMsg() (deprecated in 1.29)
241 * ApiBase::dieUsageMsgOrDebug() (deprecated in 1.29)
242 * ApiBase::getErrorFromStatus() (deprecated in 1.29)
243 * ApiBase::parseMsg() (deprecated in 1.29)
244 * ApiBase::setWarning() (deprecated in 1.29)
245 * ApiPageSet::getInvalidTitles() (deprecated in 1.26)
246 * ApiQueryLogEvents::addLogParams() (deprecated in 1.25)
247 * ApiUsageException::getCodeString() (deprecated in 1.29)
248 * ApiUsageException::getMessageArray() (deprecated in 1.29)
249 * Class UsageException, deprecated in 1.29, has been removed.
250 * ApiErrorFormatter: Added getFormat() and newWithFormat(). In particular, you
251 can now easily test $formatter->getFormat() === 'bc', and then call
252 $formatter->newWithFormat( 'plaintext' ) to get a non-BC formatter.
253
254 === Languages updated in 1.32 ===
255 MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated regularly.
256 Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as changes to languages
257 because of Phabricator reports.
258
259 * (T193566) Added language support for Ambonese Malay (abs).
260 * (T194047) Added language support for Shawiya, Latin script (shy-latn).
261 * (T195940) Added language support for Batak Mandailing (btm).
262 * (T137491) Added language support for Standard Moroccan Amazigh (zgh).
263 * (T198132) Added language support for Manipuri (mni).
264 * (T201276) Added language support for Western Armenian (hyw).
265 * (T201583) Added language support for Mon (mnw).
266
267 === Breaking changes in 1.32 ===
268 * $wgRequestTime, deprecated in 1.25, was removed. Use
269 $_SERVER['REQUEST_TIME_FLOAT'] or WebRequest::getElapsedTime() instead.
270 * The MediaWikiI18N class, deprecated in 1.31, was removed.
271 * QuickTemplate::setTranslator(), deprecated in 1.31, was removed. Use
272 Skin::msg() instead.
273 * wfInitShellLocale(), deprecated in 1.30, was removed.
274 * wfShellExecDisabled(), deprecated in 1.30, was removed.
275 * The type string for the parameter $lang of DateFormatter::getInstance,
276 deprecated in 1.31, was removed.
277 * The EDIT_TOKEN_SUFFIX constant deprecated in 1.27, was removed. Use
278 MediaWiki\Session\Token::SUFFIX instead.
279 * EditPage::isOouiEnabled() deprecated in 1.30, was removed.
280 * mw.util.wikiGetlink(), deprecated in 1.23, was removed. Use mw.util.getUrl()
281 instead.
282 * (T61113) The following methods and constants from the Revision class, which
283 were deprecated in 1.25, have now been removed:
284 * Revision::getRawUser()
285 * Revision::getRawUserText()
286 * Revision::getRawComment()
287 * window.gM() from mediawiki.jqueryMsg, deprecated in 1.23, was removed. Use
288 mw.msg() or mw.message() instead.
289 * mw.util.escapeId(), deprecated in 1.30, was removed. Use
290 mw.util.escapeIdForAttribute or mw.util.escapeIdForLink instead.
291 * mw.util.updateTooltipAccessKeys(), deprecated in 1.24, was removed. Use
292 jquery.accessKeyLabel instead.
293 * The SqlDataUpdate class, deprecated in 1.28, has been removed.
294 * The Html5Internal and Html5Depurate tidy driver classes were removed, along
295 with the Balancer tidy implementation. Both implementations were experimental,
296 and were replaced by RemexHtml.
297 * (T179624) Job::insert() and ::batchInsert(), deprecated in 1.21, were both
298 removed. Use JobQueueGroup::singleton()->push() instead.
299 * The jquery.footHovzer module, for mediawiki.debug, was removed.
300 * The es5-shim module, empty and deprecated since 1.29, was removed.
301 * the dom-level2-shim module, empty and deprecated since 1.29, was removed.
302 * the json module, empty and deprecated since 1.29, was removed.
303 * The mediawiki.widgets.visibleByteLimit module alias, deprecated in 1.32, was
304 removed. Use mediawiki.widgets.visibleLengthLimit instead.
305 * The jquery.farbtastic module, unused since 1.18, was removed.
306 * The 'jquery.expandableField' module, unused since 1.22, was removed.
307 * The hooks 'PreferencesFormPreSave' and 'PreferencesGetLegend' may provide
308 any HTMLForm object rather than PreferencesForm.
309 * The non namespaced TimestampException class, deprecated in 1.29, was removed.
310 Use Wikimedia\Timestamp\TimestampException instead.
311 * The global functions codepointToUtf8, hexSequenceToUtf8, utf8ToHexSequence,
312 utf8ToCodepoint, and escapeSingleString (deprecated in 1.25) were removed.
313 The UtfNormal\Utils class from the utfnormal library should be used instead.
314 * The deprecated UTF8_ and UNICODE_ constants were removed. The class constants
315 from the UtfNormal\Constants class from the utfnormal library should be used
316 * The protected methods PHPSessionHandler::returnSuccess() and returnFailure(),
317 only needed for PHP5 compatibility, have been removed. It now uses the boolean
318 values `true` and `false` respectively.
319 * The $parserMemc global and wfGetParserCacheStorage(), deprecated since 1.30,
320 were removed. Use the ParserCache class instead.
321 * ScopedCallback (deprecated in 1.28) was removed. Use Wikimedia\ScopedCallback
322 instead.
323 * Support for ResourceLoaderModule::getModifiedTime() and getModifiedHash(),
324 deprecated since 1.26, was removed. Use getDefinitionSummary() instead.
325 * (T195256) Skins are recommended not to rely on JavaScript for the "mw-jump"
326 and "jump-to-nav" accessibility links. To this end, the "jquery.mw-jump"
327 is no longer loaded by default. The Vector and MonoBook skins have made a
328 minor change to implement the toggle feature with CSS instead. To restore
329 prior functionality, either explicitly load "jquery.mw-jump" in your skin
330 or refer to T195256 for details on how to make the same change.
331 * Hook 'EditPageBeforeEditChecks' was removed;
332 use 'EditPageGetCheckboxesDefinition' instead.
333 * Linker::getLinkColour() and DummyLinker::getLinkColour(), deprecated since
334 1.28, were removed. LinkRenderer::getLinkClasses() should be used instead.
335 * Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer::getLaggedSlaveMode(), deprecated in 1.28, has
336 been removed. Use Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer::getLaggedReplicaMode()
337 instead.
338 * mw.widgets.CategoryMultiselectWidget now uses TagMultiselectWidget instead of
339 CapsuleMultiselectWidget. The following methods may no longer be used:
340 * setItemsFromData: Use setValue instead
341 * getItemsData: Use getItems instead and get the data property
342 * Two OutputPage methods, addMetadataLink() and getMetadataAttribute(), were
343 removed. Use addLink() instead.
344 * Another two OutputPage methods, setPageTitleActionText() and
345 getPageTitleActionText(), were removed. They did nothing since 1.15 (almost
346 ten years). Use setHTMLTitle() directly.
347 * The return value of OutputPage::adaptCdnTTL() has been removed. The
348 value returned was misleading and probably not what any caller would
349 have wanted.
350 * All MagicWord static member variables have been removed. Use appropriate
351 hooks or MagicWordFactory methods instead.
352 * MagicWord::clearCache() has been removed. Instead, create a new
353 MagicWordFactory, such as by calling
354 resetServiceForTesting( 'MagicWordFactory' ) on a MediaWikiServices.
355 * mw.util.init() has been removed. This function is not needed anymore and was
356 a no-op function since 1.30.
357 * SpecialPageFactory::resetList() is a no-op. Call overrideMwServices()
358 instead.
359 * MediaWiki no longer supports a StartProfiler.php file. Instead, you can set
360 $wgProfiler and $wgEnableProfileInfo.
361 * The mw.loader.addSource() is now considered a private method, and no longer
362 supports the `id, url` signature. Use the `Object` parameter instead.
363 * The backwards-compatibility code in HTMLForm to add a drop-down control to an
364 option that is not set to be a drop-down if the "mw-chosen" class is present,
365 is now removed.
366 * Several collations were removed. They were workarounds for bugs in the ICU
367 library and they are no longer needed (as of ICU 57.1):
368 * 'uppercase-se' (NorthernSamiUppercaseCollation) - use 'uca-se' instead
369 * 'xx-uca-et' (CollationEt) - use 'uca-et' instead
370 * 'xx-uca-fa' (CollationFa) - use 'uca-fa' instead
371 * LanguageCode::bcp47() now always returns a valid BCP 47 code. This means
372 that some MediaWiki-specific language codes, such as `simple`, are mapped
373 into valid BCP 47 codes (eg `en-simple`).
374 * The hooks 'SpecialRecentChangesFilters' & 'SpecialWatchlistFilters' deprecated
375 in 1.23 were removed. Instead, use 'ChangesListSpecialPageStructuredFilters'.
376 The ChangesListSpecialPage code for these legacy hooks, and their use in
377 SpecialRecentchanges.php and SpecialWatchlist, was also removed:
378 * ChangesListSpecialPage->getCustomFilters()
379 * ChangesListSpecialPage->getFilterGroupDefinitionFromLegacyCustomFilters()
380 * ChangesListSpecialPage::customFilters
381 * The global function wfUseMW, deprecated since 1.26, has now been removed. Use
382 the "requires" property of static extension registration instead.
383 * $wgSpecialPages no longer accepts array syntax, deprecated since 1.18.
384 * The MailAddress constructor can no longer be called with a User object,
385 behaviour which has been deprecated since 1.24.
386 * LBFactory, deprecated since 1.28, has been removed. Instead, use
387 Wikimedia\Rdbms\LBFactory.
388 * The MimeMagic class, deprecated since 1.28 has been removed. Get a
389 MimeAnalyzer instance from MediaWikiServices instead.
390 * The '--tidy' option to maintenance/parse.php has been removed. Tidying
391 the output is now the default. Use '--no-tidy' to bypass the tidy
392 phase.
393 * The global function wfErrorLog, deprecated since 1.25, has now been removed.
394 Use MWLoggerLegacyLogger::emit or UDPTransport.
395 * The hooks 'SpecialRecentChangesQuery' & 'SpecialWatchlistQuery', deprecated in
396 1.23, were removed. Instead, use ChangesListSpecialPageStructuredFilters or
397 ChangesListSpecialPageQuery.
398 * The global function wfUsePHP, deprecated since 1.30, has now been removed. To
399 assert a newer version of PHP than MediaWiki does, use extension registration.
400 * The hook 'ChangesListSpecialPageFilters', deprecated in 1.29, has now been
401 removed. Use the 'ChangesListSpecialPageStructuredFilters' hook instead.
402 * DeferredUpdates::setImmediateMode(), deprecated since 1.29, has been removed.
403 * File / MediaHandler::getStreamHeaders(), deprecated since 1.30, was removed.
404 * The hook 'DoEditSectionLink', deprecated since 1.25, has been removed. Use
405 the hook 'SkinEditSectionLinks' instead.
406 * The hook 'UserGetImplicitGroups', deprecated since 1.25, has been removed.
407 * The global function wfRunHooks, deprecated since 1.25, has now been removed.
408 Use Hooks::run().
409 * The hook 'UnknownAction', deprecated since 1.19, has now been removed.
410 * The hook 'ParserLimitReport', deprecated since 1.22, has been removed. Use
411 the hooks 'ParserLimitReportPrepare' and 'ParserLimitReportFormat' instead.
412 * The following deprecated API methods have been removed:
413 * ApiBase::profileIn() (deprecated in 1.25)
414 * ApiBase::profileOut() (deprecated in 1.25)
415 * ApiBase::safeProfileOut() (deprecated in 1.25)
416 * ApiBase::profileDBIn() (deprecated in 1.25)
417 * ApiBase::profileDBOut() (deprecated in 1.25)
418 * ApiBase::dieUsage() (deprecated in 1.29)
419 * ApiBase::dieUsageMsg() (deprecated in 1.29)
420 * ApiBase::dieUsageMsgOrDebug() (deprecated in 1.29)
421 * ApiBase::getErrorFromStatus() (deprecated in 1.29)
422 * ApiBase::parseMsg() (deprecated in 1.29)
423 * ApiBase::setWarning() (deprecated in 1.29)
424 * ApiPageSet::getInvalidTitles() (deprecated in 1.26)
425 * ApiQueryLogEvents::addLogParams() (deprecated in 1.25)
426 * ApiUsageException::getCodeString() (deprecated in 1.29)
427 * ApiUsageException::getMessageArray() (deprecated in 1.29)
428 * Class UsageException, deprecated in 1.29, has been removed.
429
430 === Deprecations in 1.32 ===
431 * HTMLForm::setSubmitProgressive() is deprecated. No need to call it. Submit
432 button is already marked as progressive.
433 * Skin::setupSkinUserCss() is deprecated. Adding of modules to load
434 has been centralised to Skin::getDefaultModules(), which is now capable
435 of queueing style modules as well.
436 * OutputPage::addModuleScripts() and ParserOutput::addModuleScripts are
437 deprecated. Use addModules() instead.
438 * Overriding SearchEngine::{searchText,searchTitle,searchArchiveTitle}
439 in extending classes is deprecated. Extend related doSearch* methods
440 instead.
441 * The following 'mediawiki.api' plugin modules were merged into mediawiki.api
442 and deprecated: mediawiki.api.category, mediawiki.api.edit,
443 mediawiki.api.login, mediawiki.api.options, mediawiki.api.parse,
444 mediawiki.api.upload, mediawiki.api.user, mediawiki.api.watch,
445 mediawiki.api.messages, and mediawiki.api.rollback.
446 * ApiBase::truncateArray() is deprecated. No replacement, as nothing is known
447 to use it.
448 * WatchAction::getUnwatchToken is deprecated. Use WatchAction::getWatchToken
449 with the 'unwatch' action parameter instead.
450 * IcuCollation::getICUVersion() is deprecated, as you can just use the PHP
451 constant INTL_ICU_VERSION directly in all versions that MediaWiki supports.
452 * Parser::fetchFile() is deprecated. Use ::fetchFileAndTitle() instead.
453 * The ApiQueryContributions class has been renamed to ApiQueryUserContribs.
454 * The XMPInfo, XMPReader, and XMPValidate classes have been deprecated in favor
455 of the namespaced classes provided by the wikimedia/xmp-reader library.
456 * SearchResultSet::{next,rewind} are deprecated. Calling code should
457 use foreach on the SearchResultSet, or the extractResults method. Extending
458 code should override extractResults.
459 * Instantiating SearchResultSet directly is deprecated. SearchEngine
460 implementations must subclass SearchResultSet for their purposes.
461 * SearchResult::setExtensionData argument has been changed from accepting an
462 array to accepting a Closure that returns the array when called.
463 * Class CryptRand, everything in MWCryptRand except generateHex() and function
464 MediaWikiServices::getCryptRand() are deprecated, use random_bytes() to
465 generate cryptographically secure random byte sequences.
466 * Parser::getConverterLanguage() is deprecated. Use ::getTargetLanguage()
467 instead.
468 * Language::markNoConversion() is deprecated. It confused readers because
469 it had unexpected behavior (only marking text if it looked like a URL)
470 and was only used in a single place in the code. Use
471 LanguageConverter::markNoConversion() instead.
472 * (T197492) Language::truncate() was soft deprecated in 1.31 and is
473 hard deprecated in this release. It has been split into two similar
474 methods, Language::truncateForVisual() and Language::truncateForDatabase(),
475 which measure length in characters and bytes, respectively. Use
476 Language::truncateForVisual() when possible to provide equity to users
477 of multibyte scripts.
478 * (T176526) EditPage::getContextTitle() falling back to $wgTitle when the
479 context title is unset is now deprecated; anything creating an EditPage
480 instance should set the context title via ::setContextTitle().
481 * The 'jquery.hidpi' module (polyfill for IMG srcset) is deprecated.
482 * ResourceLoaderStartUpModule::getStartupModules() and ::getLegacyModules()
483 are deprecated. These concepts are obsolete and have no replacement.
484 * String type for $lang of DifferenceEngine::setTextLanguage is deprecated.
485 * The following methods of OutputPage are now deprecated in favour
486 of using showFatalError directly: OutputPage::showFileDeleteError()
487 OutputPage::showFileNotFoundError(), OutputPage::showFileRenameError()
488 OutputPage::showFileCopyError() and OutputPage::showUnexpectedValueError().
489 * The Replacer, DoubleReplacer, HashtableReplacer, and RegexlikeReplacer
490 classes are now deprecated. Use a Closure instead.
491 * (T194263) ContentHandler::makeParserOptions() is deprecated. Use
492 WikiPage::makeParserOptions() or ParserOptions::newCanonical() instead.
493 * (T100681) Use of the Parsoid v1 API with the VirtualRESTService, deprecated in
494 MediaWiki 1.26, is now hard-deprecated. All known clients were converted to
495 the Parsoid v3 API in May 2015.
496 * $input is deprecated in hook 'LogEventsListGetExtraInputs'. Use
497 $formDescriptor instead.
498 * SearchEngine::transformSearchTerm( $term ) should no longer be called prior
499 to running searchText. This method was mainly implemented to support the
500 'prefix' URI param in SpecialSearch, but there are no reasons to expose this
501 logic as it should be handled internally by SearchEngine implementations
502 supporting this feature. SearchEngine implementations should no longer
503 override this methods.
504 * SearchEngine::replacePrefixes( $query ) should no longer be called prior
505 to running searchText/searchTitle.
506 * (T199657) Messages for $wgFilterLogTypes labels should be no longer be in the
507 'log-show-hide-[type]' format. Instead use 'logeventslist-[type]-log'.
508 * Global functions wfArrayFilter() and wfArrayFilterByKey() are deprecated.
509 use array_filter() directly.
510 * The $wgShowSQLErrors global is deprecated and nonfunctional.
511 Set $wgShowExceptionDetails and/or $wgShowHostnames instead.
512 * The $wgShowDBErrorBacktrace global is deprecated and nonfunctional.
513 Set $wgShowExceptionDetails instead.
514 * Public access to the DifferenceEngine properties mOldid, mNewid, mOldRev,
515 mNewRev, mOldPage, mNewPage, mOldContent, mNewContent, mRevisionsLoaded,
516 mTextLoaded and mCacheHit is deprecated. Use getOldid() / getNewid() /
517 getOldRevision() / getNewRevision() for the first four (note that the
518 revision ones return a RevisionRecord, not a Revision), do your own lookup
519 for page/content.
520 * The $wgExternalDiffEngine value 'wikidiff2' is deprecated. To use wikidiff2
521 just enable the PHP extension, and it will be autodetected.
522 * (T194731) DifferenceEngine properties mOldContent and mNewContent and methods
523 setContent(), generateContentDiffBody(), generateTextDiffBody() and textDiff()
524 are deprecated. To interact with a single slot, use a SlotDiffRenderer (and
525 subclass it to customize diff rendering); to diff custom (e.g. unsaved)
526 content, use setRevisions(). Subclassing DifferenceEngine should only be done
527 to customize page-level diff properties (such as the navigation header).
528 * The wfUseMW function, soft-deprecated in 1.26, is now hard deprecated.
529 * All MagicWord static methods are now deprecated. Use the MagicWordFactory
530 methods instead.
531 * PasswordFactory::init is deprecated. To get a password factory with the
532 standard configuration, use MediaWikiServices::getPasswordFactory.
533 * $wgContLang is deprecated, use MediaWikiServices::getContentLanguage()
534 instead.
535 * $wgParser is deprecated, use MediaWikiServices::getParser() instead.
536 * wfGetMainCache() is deprecated, use ObjectCache::getLocalClusterInstance()
537 instead.
538 * wfGetCache() is deprecated, use ObjectCache::getInstance() instead.
539 * All SpecialPageFactory static methods are deprecated. Instead, call the
540 methods on a SpecialPageFactory instance, which may be obtained from
541 MediaWikiServices.
542 * mw.user.stickyRandomId was renamed to the more explicit
543 mw.user.getPageviewToken to better capture its function.
544 * Passing Revision objects to ContentHandler::getUndoContent() is deprecated,
545 Content object should be passed instead.
546 * (T197179) Parameters 'notice', 'notice-messages', 'notice-message',
547 previously used by OOUI HTMLForm fields, are now deprecated. Use
548 'help', 'help-message', 'help-messages' instead.
549 * (T197179) HTMLFormField::getNotices() is now deprecated.
550 * The jquery.localize module is now deprecated. Use jquery.i18n instead.
551 * The SecondaryDataUpdates hook was deprecated in favor of RevisionDataUpdates,
552 or overriding ContentHandler::getSecondaryDataUpdates (T194038).
553 * The WikiPageDeletionUpdates hook was deprecated in favor of
554 PageDeletionDataUpdates, or overriding ContentHandler::getDeletionDataUpdates
555 (T194038).
556 * Content::getSecondaryDataUpdates has been deprecated in favor of
557 ContentHandler::getSecondaryDataUpdates() for overriding by extensions
558 (T194038).
559 Application logic should call WikiPage::doSecondaryDataUpdates() (T194037).
560 * Content::getDeletionUpdates has been deprecated in favor of
561 ContentHandler::getDeletionUpdates() for overriding by extensions (T194038).
562 Application logic should call WikiPage::doSecondaryDataUpdates() (T194037).
563 * (T198214) Old Tidy-related configuration settings, which were soft-deprecated
564 in MediaWiki 1.26, have now been hard deprecated. This affects $wgUseTidy,
565 $wgTidyBin, $wgTidyConf, $wgTidyOpts, $wgTidyInternal, and $wgDebugTidy. Use
566 $wgTidyConfig instead.
567 * All Tidy configurations other than Remex have been hard deprecated;
568 future parsers will not emit compatible output for these configurations.
569 * (T198214) OutputPage::addWikiText(), OutputPage::addWikiTextWithTitle(),
570 and OutputPage::addWikiTextTitle() have been deprecated, since they
571 can result in untidy output. In addition OutputPage::addWikiTextTidy()
572 and OutputPage::addWikiTextTitleTidy() was deprecated to make naming new
573 methods consistent. Use OutputPage::addWikiTextAsInterface() or
574 OutputPage::addWikiTextAsContent() instead, which ensures the output is
575 tidy and clarifies whether content-language specific postprocessing should
576 be done on the text.
577 * QuickTemplate::msgHtml() and BaseTemplate::msgHtml() have been deprecated
578 as they promote bad practises. I18n messages should always be properly
579 escaped.
580 * Skin::getDynamicStylesheetQuery() has been deprecated. It always
581 returns action=raw&ctype=text/css which callers should use directly.
582 * Class LegacyFormatter is deprecated.
583 * Use of CommentStore::insertWithTempTable() with 'img_description' is
584 deprecated. Use CommentStore::insert() instead.
585 * Language::setCode is deprecated as public function. Use Language::factory
586 to create a new Language object with a different language code.
587 * Several classes have been moved from the MediaWiki\Storage\ namespace to the
588 MediaWiki\Revision\ namespace. The old class names are aliased for
589 compatibility, but are deprecated. Classes are IncompleteRevisionException,
590 MutableRevisionRecord, MutableRevisionSlots, RevisionAccessException,
591 RevisionArchiveRecord, RevisionFactory, RevisionLookup, RevisionRecord,
592 RevisionSlots, RevisionStore, RevisionStoreRecord, SlotRecord, and
593 SuppressedDataException.
594 * When using OOUI HTMLForm containing an 'info' field which uses the 'rawrow'
595 option, it is now deprecated to give its contents (the 'default' option)
596 as a string. They should be given as a OOUI\FieldLayout object instead.
597 Notably, this affects fields defined in the 'GetPreferences' hook, because
598 Special:Preferences uses an OOUI form now. (If possible, don't use 'rawrow'.)
599 * In Skin::doEditSectionLink omitting the parameters $tooltip and $lang is
600 deprecated. For the $lang parameter, types other than Language are
601 deprecated.
602 * The $wgUseKeyHeader configuration option and the
603 OutputPage::getKeyHeader() method have been deprecated; the relevant
604 draft IETF spec expired without becoming a standard.
605 * Deprecated API action=query&prop=info inprop=readable in favor of
606 intestactions=read.
607
608 === Other changes in 1.32 ===
609 * (T198811) The following tables have had their UNIQUE indexes turned into
610 proper PRIMARY KEYs for increased maintainability: interwiki, page_props,
611 protected_titles and site_identifiers.
612 * OOUI HTMLForm will now display help text inline after the input field,
613 rather than in a popup. Previous behavior can be restored by using
614 `'help-inline' => false`.
615 * The archive table's ar_rev_id field is now unique.
616 * Special:BotPasswords now requires reauthentication.
617 * (T174023) Multi-Content Revision (MCR) capabilities were introduced into the
618 storage layer and have basic support for display. No user interface exists
619 yet for creating or managing content in slots beides the main slot. See
620 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multi-Content_Revisions> for more
621 information.
622 * The image_comment_temp database table is merged into the image table and
623 deprecated. Since access should be mediated by the CommentStore class, this
624 change shouldn't affect external code.
625 * (T206147) Database::close() will no longer commit any open transactions.
626
627 == Compatibility ==
628 MediaWiki 1.32 requires PHP 7.0.0 or later. Although HHVM 3.18.5 or later is
629 supported, it is generally advised to use PHP 7.0.0 or later for long term
630 support.
631
632 MySQL/MariaDB is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used,
633 but support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for
634 Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
635
636 The supported versions are:
637
638 * MySQL 5.5.8 or later
639 * PostgreSQL 9.2 or later
640 * SQLite 3.3.7 or later
641 * Oracle 9.0.1 or later
642 * Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (9.00.1399)
643
644 == Upgrading ==
645 1.32 has several database changes since 1.31, and will not work without schema
646 updates. Note that due to changes to some very large tables like the revision
647 table, the schema update may take quite long (minutes on a medium sized site,
648 many hours on a large site).
649
650 Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
651
652 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions, including
653 important information when upgrading from versions prior to 1.11.
654
655 For notes on 1.31.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
656
657 == Online documentation ==
658 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is available on
659 MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except
660 for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain):
661
662 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Documentation
663
664 == Mailing list ==
665 A mailing list is available for MediaWiki user support and discussion:
666
667 https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
668
669 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
670
671 https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
672
673 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
674 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
675
676 == IRC help ==
677 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net.