== MediaWiki 1.32 == THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET MediaWiki 1.32 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in production. === Configuration changes in 1.32 === * (T115414) The $wgEnableAPI and $wgEnableWriteAPI settings, deprecated in 1.31, have been removed. * The $wgUseAjax setting, deprecated in 1.31, is now ignored. * The $wgSiteSupportPage setting, unused since 1.5, was removed. * The default quality of JPEG thumbnails generated by GD was reduced from 95 to 80. The quality of JPEG thumbnails is now configurable through the new setting $wgJpegQuality (default 80). This aligns the quality to what ImageMagick uses. * $wgExperimentalHtmlIds, deprecated since 1.30, has been removed. The 'html5-legacy' value for $wgFragmentMode is no longer accepted. * The experimental Html5Internal and Html5Depurate tidy drivers were removed. RemexHtml, which is the default, should be used instead. * (T135963) You can now define a Content Security Policy for your wiki. This adds a defense-in-depth feature to stop an attacker who has found a bug in the parser allowing them to insert malicious attributes. Disabled by default, you can configure this via $wgCSPHeader and $wgCSPReportOnlyHeader. * New configuration variable has been added: $wgCookieSetOnIpBlock. This determines whether to set a cookie when an IP user is blocked. Doing so means that a blocked user, even after moving to a new IP address, will still be blocked. === New features in 1.32 === * (T112474) Generalized the ResourceLoader mechanism for overriding modules using a particular page during edit previews. * Added 'ApiParseMakeOutputPage' hook. * (T174313) Added checkbox on Special:ListUsers to display only users in temporary user groups. * (T152462) A cookie can now be set when an IP user is blocked to track that user if they move to a new IP address. This is disabled by default. === External library changes in 1.32 === * … ==== Upgraded external libraries ==== * Updated QUnit from 2.4.0 to 2.6.0. ==== New external libraries ==== * … ==== Removed and replaced external libraries ==== * … === Bug fixes in 1.32 === * … === Action API changes in 1.32 === * Added templated parameters. * A module can define a templated parameter like "{fruit}-quantity", where the actual parameters recognized correspond to the values of a multi-valued parameter. Then clients can make requests like "fruits=apples|bananas&apples-quantity=1&bananas-quantity=5". * action=paraminfo will return templated parameter definitions separately from normal parameters. All parameter definitions now include an "index" key to allow clients to maintain parameter ordering when merging normal and templated parameters. * It is now an error to submit too many values for a multi-valued parameter. This has generated a warning since MediaWiki 1.14. === Action API internal changes in 1.32 === * Added 'ApiParseMakeOutputPage' hook. * Parameter names may no longer contain '{' or '}', as these are now used for templated parameters. === Languages updated in 1.32 === MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as changes to languages because of Phabricator reports. * (T193566) Added language support for Ambonese Malay (abs). * (T194047) Added language support for Shawiya, Latin script (shy-latn). === Breaking changes in 1.32 === * $wgRequestTime, deprecated in 1.25, was removed. Use $_SERVER['REQUEST_TIME_FLOAT'] or WebRequest::getElapsedTime() instead. * The MediaWikiI18N class, deprecated in 1.31, was removed. * QuickTemplate::setTranslator(), deprecated in 1.31, was removed. Use Skin::msg() instead. * wfInitShellLocale(), deprecated in 1.30, was removed. * wfShellExecDisabled(), deprecated in 1.30, was removed. * The type string for the parameter $lang of DateFormatter::getInstance, deprecated in 1.31, was removed. * The EDIT_TOKEN_SUFFIX constant deprecated in 1.27, was removed. Use MediaWiki\Session\Token::SUFFIX instead. * EditPage::isOouiEnabled() deprecated in 1.30, was removed. * mw.util.wikiGetlink(), deprecated in 1.23, was removed. Use mw.util.getUrl() instead. * (T61113) The following methods and constants from the Revision class, which were deprecated in 1.25, have now been removed: * Revision::getRawUser() * Revision::getRawUserText() * Revision::getRawComment() * window.gM() from mediawiki.jqueryMsg, deprecated in 1.23, was removed. Use mw.msg() or mw.message() instead. * mw.util.escapeId(), deprecated in 1.30, was removed. Use mw.util.escapeIdForAttribute or mw.util.escapeIdForLink instead. * mw.util.updateTooltipAccessKeys(), deprecated in 1.24, was removed. Use jquery.accessKeyLabel instead. * The SqlDataUpdate class, deprecated in 1.28, has been removed. * The Html5Internal and Html5Depurate tidy driver classes were removed, along with the Balancer tidy implementation. Both implementations were experimental, and were replaced by RemexHtml. * (T179624) Job::insert() and ::batchInsert(), deprecated in 1.21, were both removed. Use JobQueueGroup::singleton()->push() instead. * The jquery.footHovzer module, for mediawiki.debug, was removed. * The es5-shim module, empty and deprecated since 1.29, was removed. * The mediawiki.widgets.visibleByteLimit module alias, deprecated in 1.32, was removed. Use mediawiki.widgets.visibleLengthLimit instead. * The jquery.farbtastic module, unused since 1.18, was removed. * (T181318) The $wgStyleVersion setting and its appendage to various script and style URLs in OutputPage, deprecated in 1.31, was removed. * The hooks 'PreferencesFormPreSave' and 'PreferencesGetLegend' may provide any HTMLForm object rather than PreferencesForm. * The non namespaced TimestampException class, deprecated in 1.29, was removed. Use Wikimedia\Timestamp\TimestampException instead. * The global functions codepointToUtf8, hexSequenceToUtf8, utf8ToHexSequence, utf8ToCodepoint, and escapeSingleString (deprecated in 1.25) were removed. The UtfNormal\Utils class from the utfnormal library should be used instead. * The deprecated UTF8_ and UNICODE_ constants were removed. The class constants from the UtfNormal\Constants class from the utfnormal library should be used * (T140807) The wgResourceLoaderLESSImportPaths configuration option was removed from ResourceLoader. Instead, use `@import` statements in LESS to import files directly from nearby directories within the same project. * The protected methods PHPSessionHandler::returnSuccess() and returnFailure(), only needed for PHP5 compatibility, have been removed. It now uses the boolean values `true` and `false` respectively. * The $parserMemc global and wfGetParserCacheStorage(), deprecated since 1.30, were removed. Use the ParserCache class instead. === Deprecations in 1.32 === * Use of a StartProfiler.php file is deprecated in favour of placing configuration in LocalSettings.php. * HTMLForm::setSubmitProgressive() is deprecated. No need to call it. Submit button is already marked as progressive. * Skin::setupSkinUserCss() is deprecated. Adding of modules to load has been centralised to Skin::getDefaultModules(), which is now capable of queueing style modules as well. * OutputPage::addModuleScripts() and ParserOutput::addModuleScripts are deprecated. Use addModules() instead. * Overriding SearchEngine::{searchText,searchTitle,searchArchiveTitle} in extending classes is deprecated. Extend related doSearch* methods instead. * CollationFa has been removed completely as it's not needed anymore * The following 'mediawiki.api' plugin modules were merged into mediawiki.api and deprecated: mediawiki.api.category, mediawiki.api.edit, mediawiki.api.login, mediawiki.api.options, mediawiki.api.parse, mediawiki.api.upload, mediawiki.api.user, mediawiki.api.watch, mediawiki.api.messages, and mediawiki.api.rollback. * ApiBase::truncateArray() is deprecated. No replacement, as nothing is known to use it. * WatchAction::getUnwatchToken is deprecated. Use WatchAction::getWatchToken with the 'unwatch' action parameter instead. * IcuCollation::getICUVersion() is deprecated, as you can just use the PHP constant INTL_ICU_VERSION directly in all versions that MediaWiki supports. * Parser::fetchFile() is deprecated. Use ::fetchFileAndTitle() instead. * The ApiQueryContributions class has been renamed to ApiQueryUserContribs. === Other changes in 1.32 === * Soft hyphens (U+00AD) are now automatically removed from titles; these characters can accidentally end up in copy-and-pasted titles. * Strip Unicode 6.3.0 directional formatting characters (U+061C, U+2066, U+2067, U+2068, U+2069) from the title. * … == Compatibility == MediaWiki 1.32 requires PHP 7.0.0 or later. Although HHVM 3.18.5 or later is supported, it is generally advised to use PHP 7.0.0 or later for long term support. MySQL/MariaDB is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used, but support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server. The supported versions are: * MySQL 5.5.8 or later * PostgreSQL 9.2 or later * SQLite 3.3.7 or later * Oracle 9.0.1 or later * Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (9.00.1399) == Upgrading == 1.32 has several database changes since 1.31, and will not work without schema updates. Note that due to changes to some very large tables like the revision table, the schema update may take quite long (minutes on a medium sized site, many hours on a large site). Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading! See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions, including important information when upgrading from versions prior to 1.11. For notes on 1.31.x and older releases, see HISTORY. == Online documentation == Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is available on MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain): https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Documentation == Mailing list == A mailing list is available for MediaWiki user support and discussion: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes. == IRC help == There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net.