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@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
 MediaWiki 1.30 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in
 production.
 
+=== MySQL version requirement in 1.30 ===
+As of 1.30, MediaWiki now requires MySQL 5.5.8 or higher (see Compatibility
+section).
+
 === Configuration changes in 1.30 ===
 * The "C.UTF-8" locale should be used for $wgShellLocale, if available, to avoid
   unexpected behavior when code uses locale-sensitive string comparisons. For
@@ -22,6 +26,13 @@ production.
   array. This allows dependency injection to be used for ResourceLoader modules.
 * $wgExceptionHooks has been removed.
 * (T45547) $wgUsePigLatinVariant added (off by default).
+* (T152540) MediaWiki now supports a section ID escaping style that allows to display
+  non-Latin characters verbatim on many modern browsers. This is controlled by the
+  new configuration setting, $wgFragmentMode.
+* $wgExperimentalHtmlIds is now deprecated and will be removed in a future version,
+  use $wgFragmentMode to migrate off it to a modern alternative.
+* $wgExternalInterwikiFragmentMode was introduced to control how fragments in
+  sinterwikis going outside of current wiki farm are encoded.
 
 === New features in 1.30 ===
 * (T37247) Output from Parser::parse() will now be wrapped in a div with
@@ -35,15 +46,20 @@ production.
   LanguageConverter variant.  This allows English-speaking developers
   to develop and test LanguageConverter more easily.  Pig Latin can be
   enabled by setting $wgUsePigLatinVariant to true.
+* Added RecentChangesPurgeRows hook to allow extensions to purge data that
+  depends on the recentchanges table.
+* Added JS config values wgDiffOldId/wgDiffNewId to the output of diff pages.
 
 === Languages updated in 1.30 ===
 
 * Support for kbp (Kabɩyɛ / Kabiyè) was added.
+* Support for skr (Saraiki, سرائیکی) was added.
 
 === External library changes in 1.30 ===
 
 ==== Upgraded external libraries ====
 * mediawiki/mediawiki-codesniffer updated to 0.8.1.
+* wikimedia/composer-merge-plugin updated to 1.4.1.
 
 ==== New external libraries ====
 * The class \TestingAccessWrapper has been moved to the external library
@@ -133,6 +149,15 @@ changes to languages because of Phabricator reports.
   are all deprecated. The main ParserCache instance should be obtained from
   MediaWikiServices instead. Access to the underlying BagOStuff is possible
   through the new ParserCache::getCacheStorage() method.
+* .mw-ui-constructive CSS class (deprecated in 1.27) was removed.
+* Sanitizer::escapeId() was deprecated, use escapeIdForAttribute(),
+  escapeIdForLink() or escapeIdForExternalInterwiki() instead.
+* Title::escapeFragmentForURL() was deprecated, use one of the aforementioned
+  Sanitizer functions or, if possible, Title::getFragmentForURL().
+* Second parameter to Sanitizer::escapeIdReferenceList() ($options) now does
+  nothing and is deprecated.
+* mw.util.escapeId() was deprecated, use escapeIdForAttribute() or
+  escapeIdForLink().
 
 == Compatibility ==
 MediaWiki 1.30 requires PHP 5.5.9 or later. There is experimental support for
@@ -144,7 +169,7 @@ Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
 
 The supported versions are:
 
-* MySQL 5.0.3 or later
+* MySQL 5.5.8 or later
 * PostgreSQL 8.3 or later
 * SQLite 3.3.7 or later
 * Oracle 9.0.1 or later