rdbms: rename CONN_TRX_AUTO constant to CONN_TRX_AUTOCOMMIT

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

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@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ production.
   was configured with 'any'.
 
 === New features in 1.31 ===
+* (T76554) User sub-pages named ….json are now protected in the same way that ….js
+  and ….css pages are, so that configuration options can safely be placed there.
 * Wikimedia\Rdbms\IDatabase->select() and similar methods now support
   joins with parentheses for grouping.
 * As a first pass in standardizing dialog boxes across the MediaWiki product,
@@ -66,6 +68,14 @@ production.
     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.
+* Added Wikimedia\Rdbms\IDatabase::cancelAtomic(), to roll back an atomic
+  section without having to roll back the whole transaction.
+* Wikimedia\Rdbms\IDatabase::doAtomicSection(), non-native ::insertSelect(),
+  and non-MySQL ::replace() and ::upsert() no longer roll back the whole
+  transaction on failure.
+* (T189785) Added a monthly heartbeat ping to the pingback feature.
+* The CLI installer (maintenance/install.php) learned to detect and include
+  extensions. Pass --with-extensions to enable that feature.
 
 === External library changes in 1.31 ===
 
@@ -287,8 +297,10 @@ changes to languages because of Phabricator reports.
   * Parser::isValidHalfParsedText()
   * StripState::getSubState()
   * StripState::merge()
-* The "free" class is now only applied to unbracketed URLs in wikitext. Links
+* The "free" CSS class is now only applied to unbracketed URLs in wikitext. Links
   written using square brackets will get the class "text" not "free".
+* SpecialPageFactory::getList(), deprecated in 1.24, has been removed. You can
+  use ::getNames() instead.
 * OpenSearch::getOpenSearchTemplate(), deprecated in 1.25, has been removed. You
   can use ApiOpenSearch::getOpenSearchTemplate() instead.
 * The global function wfBaseConvert, deprecated in 1.27, has been removed. Use
@@ -297,6 +309,21 @@ changes to languages because of Phabricator reports.
   wikitext table captions, wikitext table headings, wikitext table cells. HTML
   headings, HTML list items, HTML table captions, HTML table headings, HTML table cells
   will not have this trimming behavior.
+* Calling Database::begin() explicitly during an implicit transaction or when DBO_TRX
+  is set results in an exception. Calling Database::commit() explicitly for an implicit
+  transaction also results in an exception. Previously these were logged as errors.
+  The startAtomic() and endAtomic() methods, or AtomicSectionUpdate should be used
+  instead.
+* The global function wfOutputHandler() was removed, use the its replacement
+  MediaWiki\OutputHandler::handle() instead. The global function was only sometimes defined.
+  Its replacement is always available via the autoloader.
+* ChangeTags::listExtensionActivatedTags and ::listExtensionDefinedTags, deprecated
+  in 1.28, have been removed.  Use ::listSoftwareActivatedTags() and
+  ::listSoftwareDefinedTags() instead.
+* Title::getTitleInvalidRegex(), deprecated in 1.25, has been removed. You
+  can use MediaWikiTitleCodec::getTitleInvalidRegex() instead.
+* HTMLForm & VFormHTMLForm::isVForm(), deprecated in 1.25, have been removed.
+* The ProfileSection class, deprecated in 1.25 and unused, has been removed.
 
 == Compatibility ==
 MediaWiki 1.31 requires PHP 5.5.9 or later. Although HHVM 3.18.5 or later is supported,
@@ -309,7 +336,7 @@ Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
 The supported versions are:
 
 * MySQL 5.0.3 or later
-* PostgreSQL 8.3 or later
+* PostgreSQL 9.2 or later
 * SQLite 3.3.7 or later
 * Oracle 9.0.1 or later
 * Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (9.00.1399)