Merge "Remove RunningStat compat class"

[lhc/web/wiklou.git] / RELEASE-NOTES-1.30

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.30 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.30
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--- a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.30
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.30
@@ -33,6 +33,10 @@ section).
   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.
+* (T120333) Soft-deprecated the use of PHP extension 'mysql' in favor of 'mysqli'.
+  This PHP extension was deprecated in PHP 5.5 and removed in PHP 7.0. MediaWiki
+  auto-selects the 'mysqli' driver since MediaWiki 1.22, except if explicitly
+  requested through the configuration parameter $wgDBservers.
 
 === New features in 1.30 ===
 * (T37247) Output from Parser::parse() will now be wrapped in a div with