RELEASE-NOTES-1.32: Add entries for all changes to DefaultSettings.php
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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 * …
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 2.0.0.
150 * Updated jquery from v3.2.1 to v3.3.1.
151
152 ==== Removed external libraries ====
153 * pear/mail_mime-decode was removed.
154 * …
155
156 === Bug fixes in 1.32 ===
157 * SpecialPage::execute() will now only call checkLoginSecurityLevel() if
158 getLoginSecurityLevel() returns non-false.
159 * (T43720, T46197) Improved page display title handling for category pages
160 * (T65080) Fixed resetting options of some types via API action=options.
161
162 === Action API changes in 1.32 ===
163 * Added templated parameters.
164 * A module can define a templated parameter like "{fruit}-quantity", where
165 the actual parameters recognized correspond to the values of a multi-valued
166 parameter. Then clients can make requests like
167 "fruits=apples|bananas&apples-quantity=1&bananas-quantity=5".
168 * action=paraminfo will return templated parameter definitions separately
169 from normal parameters. All parameter definitions now include an "index"
170 key to allow clients to maintain parameter ordering when merging normal and
171 templated parameters.
172 * It is now an error to submit too many values for a multi-valued parameter.
173 This has generated a warning since MediaWiki 1.14.
174 * Assertion failures from the 'assert' and 'assertuser' parameters will no
175 longer use the action module's custom response format, for the few modules
176 that use custom formatters that handle errors.
177 * (T198935) User list preferences such as `email-blacklist` and similar
178 extension preferences are no longer represented as arrays when returned by
179 action=query&meta=userinfo&uiprop=options.
180 * 'missingparam' errors will now use the prefixed parameter name in the code
181 and error text, e.g. "noxxfoo" and "The 'xxfoo' parameter must be set" rather
182 than "nofoo" and "The 'foo' parameter must be set".
183 * action=query&prop=revisions now takes a 'rvslots' parameter to indicate the
184 multi-content revision slots for which content should be returned. It also
185 has a new rvprop, 'roles', to indicate which roles have slots. A deprecation
186 warning will be issued if rvprop=content or rvprop=contentmodel are used
187 without rvslots.
188 * The rvcontentformat parameter to action=query&prop=revisions has been
189 deprecated. Clients should be prepared to deal with the default format for
190 relevant models.
191 * Use of the deprecated parameters rvexpandtemplates, rvgeneratexml, rvparse,
192 rvdiffto, rvdifftotext, rvdifftotextpst, rvcontentformat, or the deprecated
193 rvprop=parsetree is forbidden with the new 'rvslots' parameter.
194 * action=query&prop=deletedrevisions, action=query&list=allrevisions, and
195 action=query&list=alldeletedrevisions are changed similarly to
196 &prop=revisions (see the three previous items).
197 * (T174032) action=compare now supports multi-content revisions.
198 * It has a 'slots' parameter to select diffing of individual slots. The
199 default behavior is to return one combined diff.
200 * The 'fromtext', 'fromsection', 'fromcontentmodel', 'fromcontentformat',
201 'totext', 'tosection', 'tocontentmodel', and 'tocontentformat' parameters
202 are deprecated. Specify the new 'fromslots' and 'toslots' to identify which
203 slots have text supplied and the corresponding templated parameters for
204 each slot.
205 * The behavior of 'fromsection' and 'tosection' of extracting one section's
206 content is not being preserved. 'fromsection-{slot}' and 'tosection-{slot}'
207 instead expand the given text as if for a section edit. This effectively
208 declines T183823 in favor of T185723.
209 * (T198214) The 'disabletidy' parameter to action=parse has been
210 deprecated; untidy output will not be supported by future wikitext
211 parsers.
212
213 === Action API internal changes in 1.32 ===
214 * Added 'ApiParseMakeOutputPage' hook.
215 * Parameter names may no longer contain '{' or '}', as these are now used for
216 templated parameters.
217 * (T194950) Added 'ApiMaxLagInfo' hook.
218 * The following methods now take a RevisionRecord rather than a Revision. No
219 external callers are known.
220 * ApiFeedContributions::feedItemAuthor()
221 * ApiFeedContributions::feedItemDesc()
222 * ApiQueryRevisionsBase::extractRevisionInfo()
223 * The following deprecated methods have been removed:
224 * ApiBase::profileIn() (deprecated in 1.25)
225 * ApiBase::profileOut() (deprecated in 1.25)
226 * ApiBase::safeProfileOut() (deprecated in 1.25)
227 * ApiBase::profileDBIn() (deprecated in 1.25)
228 * ApiBase::profileDBOut() (deprecated in 1.25)
229 * ApiBase::dieUsage() (deprecated in 1.29)
230 * ApiBase::dieUsageMsg() (deprecated in 1.29)
231 * ApiBase::dieUsageMsgOrDebug() (deprecated in 1.29)
232 * ApiBase::getErrorFromStatus() (deprecated in 1.29)
233 * ApiBase::parseMsg() (deprecated in 1.29)
234 * ApiBase::setWarning() (deprecated in 1.29)
235 * ApiPageSet::getInvalidTitles() (deprecated in 1.26)
236 * ApiQueryLogEvents::addLogParams() (deprecated in 1.25)
237 * ApiUsageException::getCodeString() (deprecated in 1.29)
238 * ApiUsageException::getMessageArray() (deprecated in 1.29)
239 * Class UsageException, deprecated in 1.29, has been removed.
240
241 === Languages updated in 1.32 ===
242 MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated regularly.
243 Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as changes to languages
244 because of Phabricator reports.
245
246 * (T193566) Added language support for Ambonese Malay (abs).
247 * (T194047) Added language support for Shawiya, Latin script (shy-latn).
248 * (T195940) Added language support for Batak Mandailing (btm).
249 * (T137491) Added language support for Standard Moroccan Amazigh (zgh).
250 * (T198132) Added language support for Manipuri (mni).
251 * (T201276) Added language support for Western Armenian (hyw).
252 * (T201583) Added language support for Mon (mnw).
253
254 === Breaking changes in 1.32 ===
255 * $wgRequestTime, deprecated in 1.25, was removed. Use
256 $_SERVER['REQUEST_TIME_FLOAT'] or WebRequest::getElapsedTime() instead.
257 * The MediaWikiI18N class, deprecated in 1.31, was removed.
258 * QuickTemplate::setTranslator(), deprecated in 1.31, was removed. Use
259 Skin::msg() instead.
260 * wfInitShellLocale(), deprecated in 1.30, was removed.
261 * wfShellExecDisabled(), deprecated in 1.30, was removed.
262 * The type string for the parameter $lang of DateFormatter::getInstance,
263 deprecated in 1.31, was removed.
264 * The EDIT_TOKEN_SUFFIX constant deprecated in 1.27, was removed. Use
265 MediaWiki\Session\Token::SUFFIX instead.
266 * EditPage::isOouiEnabled() deprecated in 1.30, was removed.
267 * mw.util.wikiGetlink(), deprecated in 1.23, was removed. Use mw.util.getUrl()
268 instead.
269 * (T61113) The following methods and constants from the Revision class, which
270 were deprecated in 1.25, have now been removed:
271 * Revision::getRawUser()
272 * Revision::getRawUserText()
273 * Revision::getRawComment()
274 * window.gM() from mediawiki.jqueryMsg, deprecated in 1.23, was removed. Use
275 mw.msg() or mw.message() instead.
276 * mw.util.escapeId(), deprecated in 1.30, was removed. Use
277 mw.util.escapeIdForAttribute or mw.util.escapeIdForLink instead.
278 * mw.util.updateTooltipAccessKeys(), deprecated in 1.24, was removed. Use
279 jquery.accessKeyLabel instead.
280 * The SqlDataUpdate class, deprecated in 1.28, has been removed.
281 * The Html5Internal and Html5Depurate tidy driver classes were removed, along
282 with the Balancer tidy implementation. Both implementations were experimental,
283 and were replaced by RemexHtml.
284 * (T179624) Job::insert() and ::batchInsert(), deprecated in 1.21, were both
285 removed. Use JobQueueGroup::singleton()->push() instead.
286 * The jquery.footHovzer module, for mediawiki.debug, was removed.
287 * The es5-shim module, empty and deprecated since 1.29, was removed.
288 * the dom-level2-shim module, empty and deprecated since 1.29, was removed.
289 * the json module, empty and deprecated since 1.29, was removed.
290 * The mediawiki.widgets.visibleByteLimit module alias, deprecated in 1.32, was
291 removed. Use mediawiki.widgets.visibleLengthLimit instead.
292 * The jquery.farbtastic module, unused since 1.18, was removed.
293 * The 'jquery.expandableField' module, unused since 1.22, was removed.
294 * The hooks 'PreferencesFormPreSave' and 'PreferencesGetLegend' may provide
295 any HTMLForm object rather than PreferencesForm.
296 * The non namespaced TimestampException class, deprecated in 1.29, was removed.
297 Use Wikimedia\Timestamp\TimestampException instead.
298 * The global functions codepointToUtf8, hexSequenceToUtf8, utf8ToHexSequence,
299 utf8ToCodepoint, and escapeSingleString (deprecated in 1.25) were removed.
300 The UtfNormal\Utils class from the utfnormal library should be used instead.
301 * The deprecated UTF8_ and UNICODE_ constants were removed. The class constants
302 from the UtfNormal\Constants class from the utfnormal library should be used
303 * The protected methods PHPSessionHandler::returnSuccess() and returnFailure(),
304 only needed for PHP5 compatibility, have been removed. It now uses the boolean
305 values `true` and `false` respectively.
306 * The $parserMemc global and wfGetParserCacheStorage(), deprecated since 1.30,
307 were removed. Use the ParserCache class instead.
308 * ScopedCallback (deprecated in 1.28) was removed. Use Wikimedia\ScopedCallback
309 instead.
310 * Support for ResourceLoaderModule::getModifiedTime() and getModifiedHash(),
311 deprecated since 1.26, was removed. Use getDefinitionSummary() instead.
312 * (T195256) Skins are recommended not to rely on JavaScript for the "mw-jump"
313 and "jump-to-nav" accessibility links. To this end, the "jquery.mw-jump"
314 is no longer loaded by default. The Vector and MonoBook skins have made a
315 minor change to implement the toggle feature with CSS instead. To restore
316 prior functionality, either explicitly load "jquery.mw-jump" in your skin
317 or refer to T195256 for details on how to make the same change.
318 * Hook 'EditPageBeforeEditChecks' was removed;
319 use 'EditPageGetCheckboxesDefinition' instead.
320 * Linker::getLinkColour() and DummyLinker::getLinkColour(), deprecated since
321 1.28, were removed. LinkRenderer::getLinkClasses() should be used instead.
322 * Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer::getLaggedSlaveMode(), deprecated in 1.28, has
323 been removed. Use Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer::getLaggedReplicaMode()
324 instead.
325 * mw.widgets.CategoryMultiselectWidget now uses TagMultiselectWidget instead of
326 CapsuleMultiselectWidget. The following methods may no longer be used:
327 * setItemsFromData: Use setValue instead
328 * getItemsData: Use getItems instead and get the data property
329 * Two OutputPage methods, addMetadataLink() and getMetadataAttribute(), were
330 removed. Use addLink() instead.
331 * Another two OutputPage methods, setPageTitleActionText() and
332 getPageTitleActionText(), were removed. They did nothing since 1.15 (almost
333 ten years). Use setHTMLTitle() directly.
334 * The return value of OutputPage::adaptCdnTTL() has been removed. The
335 value returned was misleading and probably not what any caller would
336 have wanted.
337 * All MagicWord static member variables have been removed. Use appropriate
338 hooks or MagicWordFactory methods instead.
339 * MagicWord::clearCache() has been removed. Instead, create a new
340 MagicWordFactory, such as by calling
341 resetServiceForTesting( 'MagicWordFactory' ) on a MediaWikiServices.
342 * mw.util.init() has been removed. This function is not needed anymore and was
343 a no-op function since 1.30.
344 * SpecialPageFactory::resetList() is a no-op. Call overrideMwServices()
345 instead.
346 * MediaWiki no longer supports a StartProfiler.php file. Instead, you can set
347 $wgProfiler and $wgEnableProfileInfo.
348 * The mw.loader.addSource() is now considered a private method, and no longer
349 supports the `id, url` signature. Use the `Object` parameter instead.
350 * The backwards-compatibility code in HTMLForm to add a drop-down control to an
351 option that is not set to be a drop-down if the "mw-chosen" class is present,
352 is now removed.
353 * Several collations were removed. They were workarounds for bugs in the ICU
354 library and they are no longer needed (as of ICU 57.1):
355 * 'uppercase-se' (NorthernSamiUppercaseCollation) - use 'uca-se' instead
356 * 'xx-uca-et' (CollationEt) - use 'uca-et' instead
357 * 'xx-uca-fa' (CollationFa) - use 'uca-fa' instead
358 * LanguageCode::bcp47() now always returns a valid BCP 47 code. This means
359 that some MediaWiki-specific language codes, such as `simple`, are mapped
360 into valid BCP 47 codes (eg `en-simple`).
361 * The hooks 'SpecialRecentChangesFilters' & 'SpecialWatchlistFilters' deprecated
362 in 1.23 were removed. Instead, use 'ChangesListSpecialPageStructuredFilters'.
363 The ChangesListSpecialPage code for these legacy hooks, and their use in
364 SpecialRecentchanges.php and SpecialWatchlist, was also removed:
365 * ChangesListSpecialPage->getCustomFilters()
366 * ChangesListSpecialPage->getFilterGroupDefinitionFromLegacyCustomFilters()
367 * ChangesListSpecialPage::customFilters
368 * The global function wfUseMW, deprecated since 1.26, has now been removed. Use
369 the "requires" property of static extension registration instead.
370 * $wgSpecialPages no longer accepts array syntax, deprecated since 1.18.
371 * The MailAddress constructor can no longer be called with a User object,
372 behaviour which has been deprecated since 1.24.
373 * LBFactory, deprecated since 1.28, has been removed. Instead, use
374 Wikimedia\Rdbms\LBFactory.
375 * The MimeMagic class, deprecated since 1.28 has been removed. Get a
376 MimeAnalyzer instance from MediaWikiServices instead.
377 * The '--tidy' option to maintenance/parse.php has been removed. Tidying
378 the output is now the default. Use '--no-tidy' to bypass the tidy
379 phase.
380 * The global function wfErrorLog, deprecated since 1.25, has now been removed.
381 Use MWLoggerLegacyLogger::emit or UDPTransport.
382 * The hooks 'SpecialRecentChangesQuery' & 'SpecialWatchlistQuery', deprecated in
383 1.23, were removed. Instead, use ChangesListSpecialPageStructuredFilters or
384 ChangesListSpecialPageQuery.
385 * The global function wfUsePHP, deprecated since 1.30, has now been removed. To
386 assert a newer version of PHP than MediaWiki does, use extension registration.
387 * The hook 'ChangesListSpecialPageFilters', deprecated in 1.29, has now been
388 removed. Use the 'ChangesListSpecialPageStructuredFilters' hook instead.
389 * DeferredUpdates::setImmediateMode(), deprecated since 1.29, has been removed.
390 * File / MediaHandler::getStreamHeaders(), deprecated since 1.30, was removed.
391 * The hook 'DoEditSectionLink', deprecated since 1.25, has been removed. Use
392 the hook 'SkinEditSectionLinks' instead.
393 * The hook 'UserGetImplicitGroups', deprecated since 1.25, has been removed.
394 * The global function wfRunHooks, deprecated since 1.25, has now been removed.
395 Use Hooks::run().
396 * The hook 'UnknownAction', deprecated since 1.19, has now been removed.
397 * The hook 'ParserLimitReport', deprecated since 1.22, has been removed. Use
398 the hooks 'ParserLimitReportPrepare' and 'ParserLimitReportFormat' instead.
399 * The following deprecated API methods have been removed:
400 * ApiBase::profileIn() (deprecated in 1.25)
401 * ApiBase::profileOut() (deprecated in 1.25)
402 * ApiBase::safeProfileOut() (deprecated in 1.25)
403 * ApiBase::profileDBIn() (deprecated in 1.25)
404 * ApiBase::profileDBOut() (deprecated in 1.25)
405 * ApiBase::dieUsage() (deprecated in 1.29)
406 * ApiBase::dieUsageMsg() (deprecated in 1.29)
407 * ApiBase::dieUsageMsgOrDebug() (deprecated in 1.29)
408 * ApiBase::getErrorFromStatus() (deprecated in 1.29)
409 * ApiBase::parseMsg() (deprecated in 1.29)
410 * ApiBase::setWarning() (deprecated in 1.29)
411 * ApiPageSet::getInvalidTitles() (deprecated in 1.26)
412 * ApiQueryLogEvents::addLogParams() (deprecated in 1.25)
413 * ApiUsageException::getCodeString() (deprecated in 1.29)
414 * ApiUsageException::getMessageArray() (deprecated in 1.29)
415 * Class UsageException, deprecated in 1.29, has been removed.
416
417 === Deprecations in 1.32 ===
418 * HTMLForm::setSubmitProgressive() is deprecated. No need to call it. Submit
419 button is already marked as progressive.
420 * Skin::setupSkinUserCss() is deprecated. Adding of modules to load
421 has been centralised to Skin::getDefaultModules(), which is now capable
422 of queueing style modules as well.
423 * OutputPage::addModuleScripts() and ParserOutput::addModuleScripts are
424 deprecated. Use addModules() instead.
425 * Overriding SearchEngine::{searchText,searchTitle,searchArchiveTitle}
426 in extending classes is deprecated. Extend related doSearch* methods
427 instead.
428 * The following 'mediawiki.api' plugin modules were merged into mediawiki.api
429 and deprecated: mediawiki.api.category, mediawiki.api.edit,
430 mediawiki.api.login, mediawiki.api.options, mediawiki.api.parse,
431 mediawiki.api.upload, mediawiki.api.user, mediawiki.api.watch,
432 mediawiki.api.messages, and mediawiki.api.rollback.
433 * ApiBase::truncateArray() is deprecated. No replacement, as nothing is known
434 to use it.
435 * WatchAction::getUnwatchToken is deprecated. Use WatchAction::getWatchToken
436 with the 'unwatch' action parameter instead.
437 * IcuCollation::getICUVersion() is deprecated, as you can just use the PHP
438 constant INTL_ICU_VERSION directly in all versions that MediaWiki supports.
439 * Parser::fetchFile() is deprecated. Use ::fetchFileAndTitle() instead.
440 * The ApiQueryContributions class has been renamed to ApiQueryUserContribs.
441 * The XMPInfo, XMPReader, and XMPValidate classes have been deprecated in favor
442 of the namespaced classes provided by the wikimedia/xmp-reader library.
443 * SearchResultSet::{next,rewind} are deprecated. Calling code should
444 use foreach on the SearchResultSet, or the extractResults method. Extending
445 code should override extractResults.
446 * Instantiating SearchResultSet directly is deprecated. SearchEngine
447 implementations must subclass SearchResultSet for their purposes.
448 * SearchResult::setExtensionData argument has been changed from accepting an
449 array to accepting a Closure that returns the array when called.
450 * Class CryptRand, everything in MWCryptRand except generateHex() and function
451 MediaWikiServices::getCryptRand() are deprecated, use random_bytes() to
452 generate cryptographically secure random byte sequences.
453 * Parser::getConverterLanguage() is deprecated. Use ::getTargetLanguage()
454 instead.
455 * Language::markNoConversion() is deprecated. It confused readers because
456 it had unexpected behavior (only marking text if it looked like a URL)
457 and was only used in a single place in the code. Use
458 LanguageConverter::markNoConversion() instead.
459 * (T197492) Language::truncate() was soft deprecated in 1.31 and is
460 hard deprecated in this release. It has been split into two similar
461 methods, Language::truncateForVisual() and Language::truncateForDatabase(),
462 which measure length in characters and bytes, respectively. Use
463 Language::truncateForVisual() when possible to provide equity to users
464 of multibyte scripts.
465 * (T176526) EditPage::getContextTitle() falling back to $wgTitle when the
466 context title is unset is now deprecated; anything creating an EditPage
467 instance should set the context title via ::setContextTitle().
468 * The 'jquery.hidpi' module (polyfill for IMG srcset) is deprecated.
469 * ResourceLoaderStartUpModule::getStartupModules() and ::getLegacyModules()
470 are deprecated. These concepts are obsolete and have no replacement.
471 * String type for $lang of DifferenceEngine::setTextLanguage is deprecated.
472 * The following methods of OutputPage are now deprecated in favour
473 of using showFatalError directly: OutputPage::showFileDeleteError()
474 OutputPage::showFileNotFoundError(), OutputPage::showFileRenameError()
475 OutputPage::showFileCopyError() and OutputPage::showUnexpectedValueError().
476 * The Replacer, DoubleReplacer, HashtableReplacer, and RegexlikeReplacer
477 classes are now deprecated. Use a Closure instead.
478 * (T194263) ContentHandler::makeParserOptions() is deprecated. Use
479 WikiPage::makeParserOptions() or ParserOptions::newCanonical() instead.
480 * (T100681) Use of the Parsoid v1 API with the VirtualRESTService, deprecated in
481 MediaWiki 1.26, is now hard-deprecated. All known clients were converted to
482 the Parsoid v3 API in May 2015.
483 * $input is deprecated in hook 'LogEventsListGetExtraInputs'. Use
484 $formDescriptor instead.
485 * SearchEngine::transformSearchTerm( $term ) should no longer be called prior
486 to running searchText. This method was mainly implemented to support the
487 'prefix' URI param in SpecialSearch, but there are no reasons to expose this
488 logic as it should be handled internally by SearchEngine implementations
489 supporting this feature. SearchEngine implementations should no longer
490 override this methods.
491 * SearchEngine::replacePrefixes( $query ) should no longer be called prior
492 to running searchText/searchTitle.
493 * (T199657) Messages for $wgFilterLogTypes labels should be no longer be in the
494 'log-show-hide-[type]' format. Instead use 'logeventslist-[type]-log'.
495 * Global functions wfArrayFilter() and wfArrayFilterByKey() are deprecated.
496 use array_filter() directly.
497 * The $wgShowSQLErrors global is deprecated and nonfunctional.
498 Set $wgShowExceptionDetails and/or $wgShowHostnames instead.
499 * The $wgShowDBErrorBacktrace global is deprecated and nonfunctional.
500 Set $wgShowExceptionDetails instead.
501 * Public access to the DifferenceEngine properties mOldid, mNewid, mOldRev,
502 mNewRev, mOldPage, mNewPage, mOldContent, mNewContent, mRevisionsLoaded,
503 mTextLoaded and mCacheHit is deprecated. Use getOldid() / getNewid() /
504 getOldRevision() / getNewRevision() for the first four (note that the
505 revision ones return a RevisionRecord, not a Revision), do your own lookup
506 for page/content.
507 * The $wgExternalDiffEngine value 'wikidiff2' is deprecated. To use wikidiff2
508 just enable the PHP extension, and it will be autodetected.
509 * (T194731) DifferenceEngine properties mOldContent and mNewContent and methods
510 setContent(), generateContentDiffBody(), generateTextDiffBody() and textDiff()
511 are deprecated. To interact with a single slot, use a SlotDiffRenderer (and
512 subclass it to customize diff rendering); to diff custom (e.g. unsaved)
513 content, use setRevisions(). Subclassing DifferenceEngine should only be done
514 to customize page-level diff properties (such as the navigation header).
515 * The wfUseMW function, soft-deprecated in 1.26, is now hard deprecated.
516 * All MagicWord static methods are now deprecated. Use the MagicWordFactory
517 methods instead.
518 * PasswordFactory::init is deprecated. To get a password factory with the
519 standard configuration, use MediaWikiServices::getPasswordFactory.
520 * $wgContLang is deprecated, use MediaWikiServices::getContentLanguage()
521 instead.
522 * $wgParser is deprecated, use MediaWikiServices::getParser() instead.
523 * wfGetMainCache() is deprecated, use ObjectCache::getLocalClusterInstance()
524 instead.
525 * wfGetCache() is deprecated, use ObjectCache::getInstance() instead.
526 * All SpecialPageFactory static methods are deprecated. Instead, call the
527 methods on a SpecialPageFactory instance, which may be obtained from
528 MediaWikiServices.
529 * mw.user.stickyRandomId was renamed to the more explicit
530 mw.user.getPageviewToken to better capture its function.
531 * Passing Revision objects to ContentHandler::getUndoContent() is deprecated,
532 Content object should be passed instead.
533 * (T197179) Parameters 'notice', 'notice-messages', 'notice-message',
534 previously used by OOUI HTMLForm fields, are now deprecated. Use
535 'help', 'help-message', 'help-messages' instead.
536 * (T197179) HTMLFormField::getNotices() is now deprecated.
537 * The jquery.localize module is now deprecated. Use jquery.i18n instead.
538 * The SecondaryDataUpdates hook was deprecated in favor of RevisionDataUpdates,
539 or overriding ContentHandler::getSecondaryDataUpdates (T194038).
540 * The WikiPageDeletionUpdates hook was deprecated in favor of
541 PageDeletionDataUpdates, or overriding ContentHandler::getDeletionDataUpdates
542 (T194038).
543 * Content::getSecondaryDataUpdates has been deprecated in favor of
544 ContentHandler::getSecondaryDataUpdates() for overriding by extensions
545 (T194038).
546 Application logic should call WikiPage::doSecondaryDataUpdates() (T194037).
547 * Content::getDeletionUpdates has been deprecated in favor of
548 ContentHandler::getDeletionUpdates() for overriding by extensions (T194038).
549 Application logic should call WikiPage::doSecondaryDataUpdates() (T194037).
550 * (T198214) Old Tidy-related configuration settings, which were soft-deprecated
551 in MediaWiki 1.26, have now been hard deprecated. This affects $wgUseTidy,
552 $wgTidyBin, $wgTidyConf, $wgTidyOpts, $wgTidyInternal, and $wgDebugTidy. Use
553 $wgTidyConfig instead.
554 * All Tidy configurations other than Remex have been hard deprecated;
555 future parsers will not emit compatible output for these configurations.
556 * (T198214) OutputPage::addWikiText(), OutputPage::addWikiTextWithTitle(),
557 and OutputPage::addWikiTextTitle() have been deprecated, since they
558 can result in untidy output. In addition OutputPage::addWikiTextTidy()
559 and OutputPage::addWikiTextTitleTidy() was deprecated to make naming new
560 methods consistent. Use OutputPage::addWikiTextAsInterface() or
561 OutputPage::addWikiTextAsContent() instead, which ensures the output is
562 tidy and clarifies whether content-language specific postprocessing should
563 be done on the text.
564 * QuickTemplate::msgHtml() and BaseTemplate::msgHtml() have been deprecated
565 as they promote bad practises. I18n messages should always be properly
566 escaped.
567 * Skin::getDynamicStylesheetQuery() has been deprecated. It always
568 returns action=raw&ctype=text/css which callers should use directly.
569 * Class LegacyFormatter is deprecated.
570 * Use of CommentStore::insertWithTempTable() with 'img_description' is
571 deprecated. Use CommentStore::insert() instead.
572 * Language::setCode is deprecated as public function. Use Language::factory
573 to create a new Language object with a different language code.
574 * Several classes have been moved from the MediaWiki\Storage\ namespace to the
575 MediaWiki\Revision\ namespace. The old class names are aliased for
576 compatibility, but are deprecated. Classes are IncompleteRevisionException,
577 MutableRevisionRecord, MutableRevisionSlots, RevisionAccessException,
578 RevisionArchiveRecord, RevisionFactory, RevisionLookup, RevisionRecord,
579 RevisionSlots, RevisionStore, RevisionStoreRecord, SlotRecord, and
580 SuppressedDataException.
581 * When using OOUI HTMLForm containing an 'info' field which uses the 'rawrow'
582 option, it is now deprecated to give its contents (the 'default' option)
583 as a string. They should be given as a OOUI\FieldLayout object instead.
584 Notably, this affects fields defined in the 'GetPreferences' hook, because
585 Special:Preferences uses an OOUI form now. (If possible, don't use 'rawrow'.)
586 * In Skin::doEditSectionLink omitting the parameters $tooltip and $lang is
587 deprecated. For the $lang parameter, types other than Language are
588 deprecated.
589 * The $wgUseKeyHeader configuration option and the
590 OutputPage::getKeyHeader() method have been deprecated; the relevant
591 draft IETF spec expired without becoming a standard.
592
593 === Other changes in 1.32 ===
594 * (T198811) The following tables have had their UNIQUE indexes turned into
595 proper PRIMARY KEYs for increased maintainability: interwiki, page_props,
596 protected_titles and site_identifiers.
597 * OOUI HTMLForm will now display help text inline after the input field,
598 rather than in a popup. Previous behavior can be restored by using
599 `'help-inline' => false`.
600 * The archive table's ar_rev_id field is now unique.
601 * Special:BotPasswords now requires reauthentication.
602 * (T174023) Multi-Content Revision (MCR) capabilities were introduced into the
603 storage layer and have basic support for display. No user interface exists
604 yet for creating or managing content in slots beides the main slot. See
605 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multi-Content_Revisions> for more
606 information.
607 * The image_comment_temp database table is merged into the image table and
608 deprecated. Since access should be mediated by the CommentStore class, this
609 change shouldn't affect external code.
610 * (T206147) Database::close() will no longer commit any open transactions.
611
612 == Compatibility ==
613 MediaWiki 1.32 requires PHP 7.0.0 or later. Although HHVM 3.18.5 or later is
614 supported, it is generally advised to use PHP 7.0.0 or later for long term
615 support.
616
617 MySQL/MariaDB is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used,
618 but support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for
619 Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
620
621 The supported versions are:
622
623 * MySQL 5.5.8 or later
624 * PostgreSQL 9.2 or later
625 * SQLite 3.3.7 or later
626 * Oracle 9.0.1 or later
627 * Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (9.00.1399)
628
629 == Upgrading ==
630 1.32 has several database changes since 1.31, and will not work without schema
631 updates. Note that due to changes to some very large tables like the revision
632 table, the schema update may take quite long (minutes on a medium sized site,
633 many hours on a large site).
634
635 Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
636
637 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions, including
638 important information when upgrading from versions prior to 1.11.
639
640 For notes on 1.31.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
641
642 == Online documentation ==
643 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is available on
644 MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except
645 for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain):
646
647 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Documentation
648
649 == Mailing list ==
650 A mailing list is available for MediaWiki user support and discussion:
651
652 https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
653
654 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
655
656 https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
657
658 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
659 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
660
661 == IRC help ==
662 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net.