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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
@@ -37,15 +48,24 @@ production.
   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.
+* (T2424) Added direct unwatch links to entries in Special:Watchlist (if the
+  'watchlistunwatchlinks' preference option is enabled). With JavaScript
+  enabled, these links toggle so the user can also re-watch pages that have
+  just been unwatched.
+* Added $wgParserTestMediaHandlers, where mock media handlers can be passed to
+  MediaHandlerFactory for parser tests.
 
 === 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
@@ -136,6 +156,18 @@ changes to languages because of Phabricator reports.
   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().
+* MagicWord::replaceMultiple() (deprecated in 1.25) was removed.
+* WikiImporter now requires the second parameter to be an instance of the Config,
+  class. Prior to that, the Config parameter was optional (a behavior deprecated in
+  1.25).
 
 == Compatibility ==
 MediaWiki 1.30 requires PHP 5.5.9 or later. There is experimental support for
@@ -147,7 +179,7 @@ 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