= 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 ==
Some specific notes for MediaWiki 1.34 upgrades are below:
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+* 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.
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.
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==== Removed configuration ====
* $wgWikiDiff2MovedParagraphDetectionCutoff — If you still want a custom change
=== External library changes in 1.34 ===
-==== New external libraries ====
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-
==== Changed external libraries ====
* Updated Mustache from 1.0.0 to v3.0.1.
* Updated OOUI from v0.31.3 to v0.34.0.
* 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).
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==== Removed external libraries ====
* The jquery.async module, deprecated in 1.33, was removed.
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=== Bug fixes in 1.34 ===
* (T222529) If a log entry or page revision is recorded in the database with an
* 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.
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,
"..." 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.
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== 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