Drop 'comma' value for wgArticleCountMethod

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

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.31 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.31
index f49a582..336fa59 100644 (file)
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.31
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.31
@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ production.
   as upstream is inactive and has no plans to move to PHP 7.
 * The old CategorizedRecentChanges feature, including its related configuration
   option $wgAllowCategorizedRecentChanges, has been removed.
+* (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'.
 
 === New features in 1.31 ===
 * Wikimedia\Rdbms\IDatabase->select() and similar methods now support
@@ -51,6 +54,18 @@ production.
 * Style tags with a 'data-mw-deduplicate' attribute will be deduplicated as a
   ParserOutput::getText() post-cache transformation. This may be disabled by
   passing 'deduplicateStyles' => false to that method.
+* The identity of the logged-in or IP "actor" for logged actions is being moved
+  into a new actor table, with the rows in tables such as revision and logging
+  referring to the actor ID instead of storing the user ID and name/IP in
+  every row.
+  * This is currently gated by $wgActorTableSchemaMigrationStage. Most wikis
+    can set this to MIGRATION_NEW and run maintenance/migrateActors.php as
+    soon as any necessary extensions are updated.
+  * Most code accessing rows for logged actions from the database should use
+    the relevant getQueryInfo() methods to get the information needed to build
+    the SQL query. The ActorMigration class may also be used to get feature-flagged
+    information needed to access actor-related fields during the migration
+    period.
 
 === External library changes in 1.31 ===
 
@@ -238,10 +253,22 @@ changes to languages because of Phabricator reports.
   * CommentStore::getCommentLegacy
   * CommentStore::insert
   * CommentStore::insertWithTemplate
+* The following methods in Title have been renamed, and the old ones are deprecated:
+  * Title::getSkinFromCssJsSubpage – use ::getSkinFromConfigSubpage
+  * Title::isCssOrJsPage – use ::isSiteConfigPage
+  * Title::isCssJsSubpage – use ::isUserConfigPage
+  * Title::isCssSubpage – use ::isUserCssConfigPage
+  * Title::isJsSubpage – use ::isUserJsConfigPage
+* The following variables and method in EditPage, deprecated in MediaWiki 1.30, were removed:
+  * $isCssJsSubpage — use ::isUserConfigPage()
+  * $isCssSubpage — use ::isUserCssConfigPage()
+  * $isJsSubpage — use ::isUserJsConfigPage()
+  * $isWrongCaseCssJsPage – use ::isWrongCaseUserConfigPage()
 * The method ResourceLoaderModule::getPosition(), deprecated in 1.29, has been removed.
 * The DeferredStringifier class is deprecated, use Message::listParam() instead.
 * The type string for the parameter $lang of DateFormatter::getInstance is
   deprecated.
+* The global functions wfProfileIn and wfProfileOut, deprecated in 1.25, have been removed.
 
 == Compatibility ==
 MediaWiki 1.31 requires PHP 5.5.9 or later. Although HHVM 3.18.5 or later is supported,