Tweaks to RELEASE-NOTES needed before tagging 1.34.0-rc.0

[lhc/web/wiklou.git] / RELEASE-NOTES-1.34

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@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 = MediaWiki 1.34 =
 
-== MediaWiki 1.34.0-PRERELEASE ==
+== MediaWiki 1.34.0-rc.0 ==
 
 THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
 
-MediaWiki 1.34 is an alpha-quality development branch, and is not recommended
+MediaWiki 1.34 is an pre-release testing branch, and is not recommended
 for use in production.
 
 == Upgrading notes for 1.34 ==
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ important information when upgrading from versions prior to 1.11.
 
 Some specific notes for MediaWiki 1.34 upgrades are below:
 
-* …
+* MediaWiki now requires PHP 7.2.9 or above.
+* MediaWiki no longer supports HHVM.
 
 For notes on 1.33.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
 
@@ -77,7 +78,6 @@ $wgPasswordPolicy['policies']['default']['PasswordNotInLargeBlacklist'] = false;
   an array with IP addresses as the values, or a string path to a file
   containing one IP address per line.
 * $wgCookieSetOnAutoblock and $wgCookieSetOnIpBlock are now enabled by default.
-* …
 
 ==== Removed configuration ====
 * $wgWikiDiff2MovedParagraphDetectionCutoff — If you still want a custom change
@@ -135,9 +135,6 @@ $wgPasswordPolicy['policies']['default']['PasswordNotInLargeBlacklist'] = false;
 
 === External library changes in 1.34 ===
 
-==== New external libraries ====
-* …
-
 ==== Changed external libraries ====
 * Updated Mustache from 1.0.0 to v3.0.1.
 * Updated OOUI from v0.31.3 to v0.34.0.
@@ -154,11 +151,9 @@ $wgPasswordPolicy['policies']['default']['PasswordNotInLargeBlacklist'] = false;
 * Updated wikimedia/xmp-reader from 0.6.2 to 0.6.3.
 * Updated mediawiki/mediawiki-phan-config from 0.6.0 to 0.6.1 (dev-only).
 * Updated wikimedia/avro from 1.8.0 to 1.9.0 (dev-only).
-* …
 
 ==== Removed external libraries ====
 * The jquery.async module, deprecated in 1.33, was removed.
-* …
 
 === Bug fixes in 1.34 ===
 * (T222529) If a log entry or page revision is recorded in the database with an
@@ -569,6 +564,10 @@ because of Phabricator reports.
 * IDatabase::bufferResults() has been deprecated. Use query batching instead.
 * MessageCache::singleton() is deprecated. Use
   MediaWikiServices::getMessageCache().
+* ObjectCache::getWANInstance() is deprecated. Use
+  MediaWikiServices::getMainWANObjectCache() instead.
+* ObjectCache::newWANCacheFromParams() is deprecated. Use
+  MediaWikiServices::getMainWANObjectCache() instead.
 * Constructing MovePage directly is deprecated. Use MovePageFactory.
 * TempFSFile::factory() has been deprecated. Use TempFSFileFactory instead.
 * wfIsBadImage() is deprecated. Use the BadFileLookup service instead.
@@ -604,18 +603,26 @@ because of Phabricator reports.
 * ApiQueryBase::showHiddenUsersAddBlockInfo() is deprecated. Use
   ApiQueryBlockInfoTrait instead.
 * PasswordReset is now a service, its direct instantiation is deprecated.
+* RESTBagOStuff users should specify either "JSON" or "PHP" serialization type.
+* The global function wfIsHHVM() is deprecated and will now always return false
+  regardless of the runtime environment. This is part of the continuing work to
+  remove HHVM support from MediaWiki, which started in MediaWiki 1.31.
 * Language::getLocalisationCache() is deprecated. Use MediaWikiServices
   instead.
+* The following Language methods are deprecated: isSupportedLanguage,
+  isValidCode, isValidBuiltInCode, isKnownLanguageTag, fetchLanguageNames,
+  fetchLanguageName, getFileName, getMessagesFileName, getJsonMessagesFileName.
+  Use the new LanguageNameUtils class instead. (Note that fetchLanguageName(s)
+  are called getLanguageName(s) in the new class.)
 
 === Other changes in 1.34 ===
 * Added option to specify "Various authors" as author in extension credits using
   "..." as the only author name. If the "author" array contains more than one
   entry and "..." is one of the entries in the array, "..." will be parsed as
   "others" (version-poweredby-others i18n message) like previously.
-* …
 
 == Compatibility ==
-MediaWiki 1.34 requires PHP 7.2.0 or later, and the following PHP extensions:
+MediaWiki 1.34 requires PHP 7.2.9 or later, and the following PHP extensions:
 
 * ctype
 * dom