Bump PHP version requirement to 7.0.0+

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

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.31 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.31
index f40a422..b7c4c54 100644 (file)
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.31
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.31
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ 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.
 
@@ -80,6 +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 ===
 
@@ -94,7 +104,7 @@ production.
 * Updated wikimedia/running-stat from 1.1.0 to 1.2.0.
 * Updated wikimedia/wrappedstring from 2.2.0 to 2.3.0.
 * Updated mediawiki/at-ease from 1.1.0 to 1.2.0.
-* Updated wikimedia/php-session-serializer from 1.0.4 to 1.0.5.
+* Updated wikimedia/php-session-serializer from 1.0.4 to 1.0.6.
 * Updated wikimedia/remex-html from 1.0.2 to 1.0.3.
 * …
 
@@ -111,6 +121,7 @@ production.
   'mediawiki.viewport' module instead.
 * The deprecated 'mediawiki.widgets.CategorySelector' module alias was removed.
   Use the 'mediawiki.widgets.CategoryMultiselectWidget' module directly instead.
+* mediawiki/at-ease was replaced with wikimedia/at-ease.
 
 === Bug fixes in 1.31 ===
 * (T90902) Non-breaking space in header ID breaks anchor
@@ -245,6 +256,10 @@ changes to languages because of Phabricator reports.
   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.
+* Execution of external programs using MediaWiki\Shell\Command now applies RESTRICT_DEFAULT
+  Firejail restriction by default.
+* The ResourceLoaderModule::getHashMtime() and ::getDefinitionMtime() methods,
+  deprecated in 1.26, were removed.
 
 === Deprecations in 1.31 ===
 * The Revision class was deprecated in favor of RevisionStore, BlobStore, and
@@ -331,6 +346,10 @@ 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.
+* The function wfShellWikiCmd() has been deprecated, use
+  MediaWiki\Shell::makeScriptCommand().
 
 === Other changes in 1.31 ===
 * Browser support for Internet Explorer 10 was lowered from Grade A to Grade C.
@@ -345,8 +364,8 @@ changes to languages because of Phabricator reports.
   will not have this trimming behavior.
 
 == Compatibility ==
-MediaWiki 1.31 requires PHP 5.5.9 or later. Although HHVM 3.18.5 or later is supported,
-it is generally advised to use PHP 5.5.9 or later for long term support.
+MediaWiki 1.31 requires PHP 7.0.0 or later. Although HHVM 3.18.5 or later is supported,
+it is generally advised to use PHP 7.0.0 or later for long term support.
 
 MySQL/MariaDB is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used,
 but support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for
@@ -354,7 +373,7 @@ Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
 
 The supported versions are:
 
-* MySQL 5.0.3 or later
+* MySQL 5.5.8 or later
 * PostgreSQL 9.2 or later
 * SQLite 3.3.7 or later
 * Oracle 9.0.1 or later