Remove patch-log_search-rename-index.sql from MW 1.16 updaters

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

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.30 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.30
index 7fff8ad..d38a34d 100644 (file)
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.30
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.30
@@ -61,6 +61,11 @@ section).
   just been unwatched.
 * Added $wgParserTestMediaHandlers, where mock media handlers can be passed to
   MediaHandlerFactory for parser tests.
+* Edit summaries, block reasons, and other "comments" are now stored in a
+  separate database table. Use the CommentFormatter class to access them.
+** This is currently gated by $wgCommentTableSchemaMigrationStage. Most wikis
+   can set this to MIGRATION_NEW and run maintenance/migrateComments.php as
+   soon as any necessary extensions are updated.
 
 === External library changes in 1.30 ===
 
@@ -152,6 +157,7 @@ changes to languages because of Phabricator reports.
   WikiPage::makeParserOptions() to create the ParserOptions object and only
   change options that affect the parser cache key.
 * Article::viewRedirect() is deprecated.
+* IP::isValidBlock() was deprecated. Use the equivalent IP::isValidRange().
 * DeprecatedGlobal no longer supports passing in a direct value, it requires a
   callable factory function or a class name.
 * The $parserMemc global, wfGetParserCacheStorage(), and ParserCache::singleton()
@@ -185,8 +191,14 @@ changes to languages because of Phabricator reports.
 * EditPage::isOouiEnabled() is deprecated and will always return true.
 * Parser::getRandomString() (deprecated in 1.26) was removed.
 * Parser::uniqPrefix() (deprecated in 1.26) was removed.
-* Parser::extractTagsAndParams() now only accepts three arguments.  The fourth,
+* Parser::extractTagsAndParams() now only accepts three arguments. The fourth,
   $uniq_prefix was deprecated in 1.26 and has now been removed.
+* (T172514) The following tables have had their UNIQUE indexes turned into proper
+  PRIMARY KEYs for increased maintainability: categorylinks, imagelinks, iwlinks,
+  langlinks, log_search, module_deps, objectcache, pagelinks, query_cache, site_stats,
+  templatelinks, text, transcache, user_former_groups, user_properties.
+* IDatabase::nextSequenceValue() is no longer needed by any database backends
+  (formerly it was needed by PostgreSQL and Oracle), and is now deprecated.
 
 == Compatibility ==
 MediaWiki 1.30 requires PHP 5.5.9 or later. There is experimental support for