Add release notes for 036f5b47efc99

[lhc/web/wiklou.git] / RELEASE-NOTES-1.31

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@@ -31,7 +31,12 @@ production.
 * (T188472) The 'comma' value for $wgArticleCountMethod is no longer supported for
   performance reasons, and installations with this setting will now work as if it
   was configured with 'any'.
+* (T185753) MediaWiki now defaults to using RemexHtml to tidy up user input, rather than
+  being off by default. If you wish to disable HTML tidying entirely, set $wgTidyConfig
+  to null; if you wish to use the old, deprecated Tidy external binary, both
+  set $wgTidyConfig to null and also set $wgUseTidy to true.
 * $wgLogAutopatrol now defaults to false instead of true.
+* $wgValidateAllHtml was removed and will be ignored.
 
 === New features in 1.31 ===
 * (T76554) User sub-pages named ….json are now protected in the same way that ….js
@@ -79,6 +84,12 @@ production.
   extensions. Pass --with-extensions to enable that feature.
 * (T184791) rc_patrolled now has three states: "0" for unpatrolled,
   "1" for manually patrolled and "2" for autopatrolled actions.
+* Extensions can now set their type to "editor" if they provide an editor
+  or enhance the editing experience.
+* Extensions can use a PSR-4 autoloader by setting an "AutoloadNamespaces" property
+  in extension.json. See
+  <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Extension.json/Schema#AutoloadNamespaces>
+  for more details and an example.
 
 === External library changes in 1.31 ===
 
@@ -239,6 +250,11 @@ changes to languages because of Phabricator reports.
 * The ResourceLoaderGetLessVars hook, deprecated in 1.30, has been removed.
   Use ResourceLoaderModule::getLessVars() to expose local variables instead
   of global ones.
+* As part of work to modernise user-generated content clean-up, a config option and some
+  methods related to HTML validity were removed without deprecation. The public methods
+  MWTidy::checkErrors() and its callee TidyDriverBase::validate() are removed, as are
+  MediaWikiTestCase::assertValidHtmlSnippet() and ::assertValidHtmlDocument(). The
+  $wgValidateAllHtml configuration option is removed and will be ignored.
 
 === Deprecations in 1.31 ===
 * The Revision class was deprecated in favor of RevisionStore, BlobStore, and
@@ -325,6 +341,8 @@ changes to languages because of Phabricator reports.
 * The type string for the parameter $lang of DateFormatter::getInstance is
   deprecated.
 * Wikimedia\Rdbms\SavepointPostgres is deprecated.
+* The DO_MAINTENANCE constant is deprecated. RUN_MAINTENANCE_IF_MAIN should be
+  used instead.
 
 === Other changes in 1.31 ===
 * Browser support for Internet Explorer 10 was lowered from Grade A to Grade C.