* The mediawiki.widgets.visibleByteLimit module alias, deprecated in 1.32, was
removed. Use mediawiki.widgets.visibleLengthLimit instead.
* The jquery.farbtastic module, unused since 1.18, was removed.
+* (T181318) The $wgStyleVersion setting and its appendage to various script and
+ style URLs in OutputPage, deprecated in 1.31, was removed.
+* The hooks 'PreferencesFormPreSave' and 'PreferencesGetLegend' may provide
+ any HTMLForm object rather than PreferencesForm.
+* The non namespaced TimestampException class, deprecated in 1.29, was removed.
+ Use Wikimedia\Timestamp\TimestampException instead.
+* The global functions codepointToUtf8, hexSequenceToUtf8, utf8ToHexSequence,
+ utf8ToCodepoint, and escapeSingleString (deprecated in 1.25) were removed.
+ The UtfNormal\Utils class from the utfnormal library should be used instead.
+* The deprecated UTF8_ and UNICODE_ constants were removed. The class constants
+ from the UtfNormal\Constants class from the utfnormal library should be used
=== Deprecations in 1.32 ===
* Use of a StartProfiler.php file is deprecated in favour of placing
to use it.
* WatchAction::getUnwatchToken is deprecated. Use WatchAction::getWatchToken
with the 'unwatch' action parameter instead.
+* IcuCollation::getICUVersion() is deprecated, as you can just use the PHP
+ constant INTL_ICU_VERSION directly in all versions that MediaWiki supports.
+* Parser::fetchFile() is deprecated. Use ::fetchFileAndTitle() instead.
=== Other changes in 1.32 ===
* Soft hyphens (U+00AD) are now automatically removed from titles; these
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== Compatibility ==
-MediaWiki 1.32 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
+MediaWiki 1.32 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,