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 ===
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