From 41e862c47a4b5318fadf9e48fc95ddc15dfb06f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Reedy Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 14:15:34 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Remove RELEASE-NOTES-1.26 from master as it is now a release. Change-Id: I57f39c77286057d29b91dc8e4feda67cbd0ee3ee --- HISTORY | 244 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ RELEASE-NOTES-1.26 | 317 --------------------------------------------- 2 files changed, 244 insertions(+), 317 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 RELEASE-NOTES-1.26 diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY index 0c2b8ac8df..e9de01ab2c 100644 --- a/HISTORY +++ b/HISTORY @@ -1,5 +1,249 @@ Change notes from older releases. For current info see RELEASE-NOTES-1.27. +== MediaWiki 1.26 == + +=== Configuration changes in 1.26 === +* $wgPasswordResetRoutes['email'] = true by default. +* $wgEnableParserCache was deprecated, set $wgParserCacheType to CACHE_NONE + instead if you want to disable the parser cache. +* New-style continuation is now the default for API action=continue. Clients may + use the 'rawcontinue' parameter to receive raw query-continue data, but the + new style is encouraged as it's harder to implement incorrectly. +* Deprecated API formats dump and wddx have been completely removed. +* (T7645) The "Signature" button on the edit toolbar is now hidden by default + in non-talk namespaces. A new configuration variable, + $wgExtraSignatureNamespaces, controls in which subject (non-talk) namespaces + the "Signature" button on the edit toolbar will be displayed. +* $wgResourceLoaderUseESI was deprecated and removed. This was an experimental + feature that was never enabled by default. +* $wgResourceLoaderExperimentalAsyncLoading was deprecated and removed. + This experimental feature was never enabled by default and is obsolete as of + MediaWiki 1.26, in where ResourceLoader became fully asynchronous. +* $wgMasterWaitTimeout was removed (deprecated in 1.24). +* Fields in ParserOptions are now private. Use the accessors instead. +* Custom LESS functions (defined via $wgResourceLoaderLESSFunctions or + in extension.json) have been removed, after being deprecated in 1.24. +* $wgAlwaysUseTidy has been removed. +* ResetSessionID hook has been removed. Nothing seems to use it. +* Certain AuthPlugin methods are deprecated in favor of new hooks: +** AuthPlugin::initUser() is replaced by LocalUserCreated. +** AuthPlugin::updateUser() is replaced by UserLoggedIn. +** AuthPlugin::updateExternalDB() is replaced by the existing UserSaveSettings. +** AuthPlugin::updateExternalDBGroups() is replaced by UserGroupsChanged. +** AuthPluginUser::isHidden() is replaced by UserIsHidden. +** AuthPluginUser::isLocked() is replaced by UserIsLocked. +* The UserRights hook is deprecated in favor of the new UserGroupsChanged hook. +* AuthPlugin::initUser() and AuthPlugin::updateUser() should no longer replace + the passed User object. +* $wgBlockAllowsUTEdit is now set to true by default. This allows + blocked users to edit their talk pages unless explicitly disabled + when they are being blocked. + +=== New features in 1.26 === +* (T51506) Now action=info gives estimates of actual watchers for a page. + See $wgRCMaxAge, $wgWatchersMaxAge and $wgUnwatchedPageSecret + to learn how to configure if needed. +* Change tags can now be hidden in the interface by disabling the associated + "tag-" interface message. +* ':' (colon) is now invalid in usernames for new accounts. Existing accounts + are not affected. +* Added a new hook, 'LogException', to log exceptions in nonstandard ways. +* Revive the 'SpecialSearchResultsAppend' hook which occurs after the list of + search results are rendered. The initial use case is to append a "give us + feedback" link beneath the search results. +* Added a new hook, 'RejectParserCacheValue', which allows extensions to + reject an otherwise-successful parser cache lookup. The intent is to allow + extensions to manage the eviction of archaic HTML output from the cache. +* (T68699) The expiration of the UserID and Token login cookies + ($wgExtendedLoginCookieExpiration) can be configured independently of the + expiration of all other cookies ($wgCookieExpiration). +* (T50519) Support for generating JPEG/PNG thumbnails from WebP images added + if ImageMagick is used as image scaler ($wgUseImageMagick = true). Uploading + of WebP images still disabled by default. Add $wgFileExtensions[] = + 'webp'; to LocalSettings.php to enable uploading of WebP images. +* Added new hooks 'EnhancedChangesListModifyLineData' & + 'EnhancedChangesListModifyBlockLineData', to modify the data used to build + lines in enhanced recentchanges and watchlist. +* Caches that need purging ability now use the WANObjectCache interface. + This corresponds to a new $wgMainWANCache setting, which defaults to using + the $wgMainCacheType settings. +* Callers needing fast light-weight data stores use $wgMainStash to select + the store type from $wgObjectCaches. The default is the local database. +* Interface message overrides in the MediaWiki namespace will now be cached in + memcached and APC (if available), rather than memcached and local files. +* Added a new hook, 'RandomPageQuery', to allow modification of the query used + by Special:Random to select random pages. +* $wgTransactionalTimeLimit was added, which controls the request time limit + for potentially slow POST requests that need to be as atomic as possible. +* ResourceLoader now loads all scripts asynchronously. The top-queue and + startup modules are no longer synchronously loaded. +* 'mediawiki.ui.button' styles are no longer unconditionally loaded on every + page. During the deprecation period, the styles will only be loaded on pages + which contain 'mw-ui-button' in their HTML. Starting in 1.28, the styles will + only be loaded if explicitly required. +* If search returns zero results and current search engine has a "did you mean" + suggestion, results for suggestion will be shown. Can be disabled by setting + $wgSearchRunSuggestedQuery to false. +* Added several JavaScript libraries for uploading files to MediaWiki + from the client-side. See documentation for mw.Upload and its + subclasses for more information. +* Added OOUI dialogs and layout for file upload interfaces. See + documentation for mw.Upload.Dialog, mw.Upload.BookletLayout and its + subclasses for more information. + +== extension.json changes in 1.26 == +* (T99344) The extension.json schema is now versioned. All extensions + and skins should set a "manifest_version" property corresponding to + the schema version they were written for. The only supported version + currently is "1". +* (T102523) The error message if a non-array attribute is set was improved. +* (T107646) Configuration settings can now specify how they should be merged, + which is necessary for arrays using integer keys. +* (T110389) Adding namespaces through extension.json now actually works +* $wgNamespaceProtection can now be set in extension.json. +* $wgCapitalLinkOverrides can now be set in extension.json. +* (T97186) Extensions using a custom prefix for their configuration settings + can now set a "_prefix" key to override the default of "wg". +* (T99084) Extensions can now specify what MediaWiki core versions they + depend upon. +* (T105236) The extension.json schema now validates custom classes in + the "ResourceModules" property properly. + +=== External library changes in 1.26 === +==== Upgraded external libraries ==== +* Updated es5-shim from v4.0.0 to v4.1.5. +* Updated json2 from revision 2014-02-04 to 2015-05-03. +* Updated Sinon.JS from 1.10.3 to 1.15.4. +* Updated jQuery Client from v1.0.0 to v2.0.0. +* Updated QUnit from v1.17.1 to v1.18.0. +* Updated liuggio/statsd-php-client from v1.0.12 to v1.0.16. +* Updated oojs/oojs-ui from v0.11.3 to v0.12.12. +* Updated wikimedia/cdb from v1.0.1 to v1.3.0. +* Updated wikimedia/utfnormal from v1.0.2 to v1.0.3. +* Updated wikimedia/composer-merge-plugin from v1.0.0 to v1.3.0. +* Updated zordius/lightncandy from v0.18 to v0.21. + +==== New external libraries ==== +* Added composer/semver v1.0.0. +* Added mediawiki/at-ease v1.1.0. +* Added wikimedia/assert v0.2.2. +* Added wikimedia/ip-set v1.0.1. +* Added wikimedia/wrappedstring v2.0.0. + +==== Removed and replaced external libraries ==== +* Replaced leafo/lessphp v0.5.0 with oyejorge/less.php v1.7.0.9. + +=== Bug fixes in 1.26 === +* (T53283) load.php sometimes sends 304 response without full headers +* (T65198) Talk page tabs now have a "rel=discussion" attribute +* (T98841) {{msgnw:}} now preserves comments even when subst: is not used. +* (T104142) $wgEmergencyContact and $wgPasswordSender now use their default + value if set to an empty string. + +=== Action API changes in 1.26 === +* New-style continuation is now the default for action=continue. Clients may + use the 'rawcontinue' parameter to receive raw query-continue data, but the + new style is encouraged as it's harder to implement incorrectly. +* Deprecated API formats dump and wddx have been completely removed. +* API action=query&list=tags: The displayname can now be boolean false if the + tag is meant to be hidden from user interfaces. +* action=import no longer allows both the namespace= and rootpage= parameters + to be set. If they are both set, the value of rootpage= will be ignored. +* prop=revision output in enum mode is now sorted by timestamp rather than + revision ID. This usually won't make any difference. +* (T102645) Namespace list from meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces is now an array + with formatversion=2. +* Various other output from meta=siteinfo will now always be arrays instead of + sometimes being numerically-indexed objects with formatversion=2. +* When errors about users being blocked are returned, they now include + information about the relevant block. +* (T99926) list=random has higher limits, in line with other API modules. +* list=random's rnredirect parameter is deprecated in favor of a new + rnfilterredir parameter that also allows for listing both redirects and + non-redirects. +* list=random now supports continuation. +* API responses to GET requests may now include ETag and Last-Modified headers, + and will honor corresponding If-None-Match and If-Modified-Since on such + requests. + +=== Action API internal changes in 1.26 === +* New metadata item ApiResult::META_KVP_MERGE to allow for merging the KVP key + into the value when the value is an assoc. +* API action modules may now provide values for the RFC 7232 ETag and + Last-Modified headers. The API will check these against If-None-Match and + If-Modified-Since request headers on GET requests and avoid executing the + module when appropriate. + +=== Languages updated in 1.26 === + +MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated +regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as +changes to languages because of Phabricator reports. + +* Languages added: +** ase (American sign language), thanks to translator Icemandeaf +** dty (डोटेली/Doteli), thanks to translators जनक राज भट्ट, बिप्लब आनन्द, + मेश सिंह बोहरा, and राम प्रसाद जोशी +** luz (لئری دوٙمینی / Southern Luri) +** olo (Livvinкarjala / Livvi-Karelian), thanks to translators Denö, Hiloin Natoi, + Ilja.mos, and Mashoi7 + +=== Other changes in 1.26 === +* ChangeTags::tagDescription() will return false if the interface message + for the tag is disabled. +* Added PageHistoryPager::doBatchLookups hook. +* Added $wikiId parameter to FormatAutocomments hook. +* Added ParserCacheSaveComplete to ParserCache +* supportsDirectEditing and supportsDirectApiEditing methods added to + ContentHandler, to provide a way for ApiEditPage and EditPage to check + if direct editing of content is allowed. These methods return false, + by default for the ContentHandler base class and true for TextContentHandler + and it's derivative classes (everything in core). For Content types that + do not support direct editing, an alternative mechanism should be provided + for editing, such as action overrides or specific api modules. +* mediaWiki.confirmCloseWindow now returns an object of functions, instead of + one function. The callback can't be called directly any more. The callback + function is replaced with confirmCloseWindow.release(). +* BREAKING CHANGE: Added an optional ResouceLoaderContext parameter to + ResourceLoaderModule::getDependencies(). Extension classes that override that + method should be updated. If they aren't updated, PHP Strict standards + warnings will appear when E_STRICT error reporting is enabled. Note: in the + near future, this parameter will probably become non-optional. +* Removed maintenance script deleteImageMemcached.php. +* MWFunction::newObj() was removed (deprecated in 1.25). + ObjectFactory::getObjectFromSpec() should be used instead. +* The parser will no longer randomize the string it uses to mark the place of + items that were stripped during parsing. It will use a fixed string instead. + This causes the parser to re-use the regular expressions it uses to search + and replace markers rather than generate novel expressions on each parse. + Re-using regular expressions will improve performance on HHVM and the + forthcoming PHP 7. The interfaces changes accompanying this change are: + - Parser::getRandomString() and Parser::uniqPrefix() have been deprecated. + - The $uniq_prefix argument for Parser::extractTagsAndParams() and the + $prefix argument for StripState::_construct() are deprecated and their + value is ignored. +* wfSuppressWarnings() and wfRestoreWarnings() were split into a separate library, + mediawiki/at-ease, and are now deprecated. Callers should use + MediaWiki\suppressWarnings() and MediaWiki\restoreWarnings() directly. +* The Block class constructor now takes an associative array of parameters + instead of many optional positional arguments. Calling the constructor the old + way will issue a deprecation warning. +* The jquery.mwExtension module was deprecated. +* $wgSpecialPageGroups was removed (deprecated in 1.21). +* SpecialPageFactory::setGroup was removed (deprecated in 1.21). +* SpecialPageFactory::getGroup was removed (deprecated in 1.21). +* DatabaseBase::ignoreErrors() is now protected. +* BREAKING CHANGE: mediawiki.legacy.ajax has been removed, following + a lengthy deprecation period. +* The ScopedPHPTimeout class was removed. +* Removed maintenance script fixSlaveDesync.php. +* Watchlist tokens, SpecialResetTokens, and User::getTokenFromOption() + are deprecated. Applications using those can work via the OAuth + extension instead. New tokens types should not be added. +* DatabaseBase::errorCount() was removed (unused). +* $wgDeferredUpdateList was removed. +* DeferredUpdates::addHTMLCacheUpdate() was removed. + == MediaWiki 1.25 == === Configuration changes in 1.25 === diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.26 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.26 deleted file mode 100644 index ac2f947c2d..0000000000 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.26 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,317 +0,0 @@ -Security reminder: If you have PHP's register_globals option set, you must -turn it off. MediaWiki will not work with it enabled. - -== MediaWiki 1.26 == - -THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET - -MediaWiki 1.26 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in -production. - -=== Configuration changes in 1.26 === -* $wgPasswordResetRoutes['email'] = true by default. -* $wgEnableParserCache was deprecated, set $wgParserCacheType to CACHE_NONE - instead if you want to disable the parser cache. -* New-style continuation is now the default for API action=continue. Clients may - use the 'rawcontinue' parameter to receive raw query-continue data, but the - new style is encouraged as it's harder to implement incorrectly. -* Deprecated API formats dump and wddx have been completely removed. -* (T7645) The "Signature" button on the edit toolbar is now hidden by default - in non-talk namespaces. A new configuration variable, - $wgExtraSignatureNamespaces, controls in which subject (non-talk) namespaces - the "Signature" button on the edit toolbar will be displayed. -* $wgResourceLoaderUseESI was deprecated and removed. This was an experimental - feature that was never enabled by default. -* $wgResourceLoaderExperimentalAsyncLoading was deprecated and removed. - This experimental feature was never enabled by default and is obsolete as of - MediaWiki 1.26, in where ResourceLoader became fully asynchronous. -* $wgMasterWaitTimeout was removed (deprecated in 1.24). -* Fields in ParserOptions are now private. Use the accessors instead. -* Custom LESS functions (defined via $wgResourceLoaderLESSFunctions or - in extension.json) have been removed, after being deprecated in 1.24. -* $wgAlwaysUseTidy has been removed. -* ResetSessionID hook has been removed. Nothing seems to use it. -* Certain AuthPlugin methods are deprecated in favor of new hooks: -** AuthPlugin::initUser() is replaced by LocalUserCreated. -** AuthPlugin::updateUser() is replaced by UserLoggedIn. -** AuthPlugin::updateExternalDB() is replaced by the existing UserSaveSettings. -** AuthPlugin::updateExternalDBGroups() is replaced by UserGroupsChanged. -** AuthPluginUser::isHidden() is replaced by UserIsHidden. -** AuthPluginUser::isLocked() is replaced by UserIsLocked. -* The UserRights hook is deprecated in favor of the new UserGroupsChanged hook. -* AuthPlugin::initUser() and AuthPlugin::updateUser() should no longer replace - the passed User object. -* $wgBlockAllowsUTEdit is now set to true by default. This allows - blocked users to edit their talk pages unless explicitly disabled - when they are being blocked. - -=== New features in 1.26 === -* (T51506) Now action=info gives estimates of actual watchers for a page. - See $wgRCMaxAge, $wgWatchersMaxAge and $wgUnwatchedPageSecret - to learn how to configure if needed. -* Change tags can now be hidden in the interface by disabling the associated - "tag-" interface message. -* ':' (colon) is now invalid in usernames for new accounts. Existing accounts - are not affected. -* Added a new hook, 'LogException', to log exceptions in nonstandard ways. -* Revive the 'SpecialSearchResultsAppend' hook which occurs after the list of - search results are rendered. The initial use case is to append a "give us - feedback" link beneath the search results. -* Added a new hook, 'RejectParserCacheValue', which allows extensions to - reject an otherwise-successful parser cache lookup. The intent is to allow - extensions to manage the eviction of archaic HTML output from the cache. -* (T68699) The expiration of the UserID and Token login cookies - ($wgExtendedLoginCookieExpiration) can be configured independently of the - expiration of all other cookies ($wgCookieExpiration). -* (T50519) Support for generating JPEG/PNG thumbnails from WebP images added - if ImageMagick is used as image scaler ($wgUseImageMagick = true). Uploading - of WebP images still disabled by default. Add $wgFileExtensions[] = - 'webp'; to LocalSettings.php to enable uploading of WebP images. -* Added new hooks 'EnhancedChangesListModifyLineData' & - 'EnhancedChangesListModifyBlockLineData', to modify the data used to build - lines in enhanced recentchanges and watchlist. -* Caches that need purging ability now use the WANObjectCache interface. - This corresponds to a new $wgMainWANCache setting, which defaults to using - the $wgMainCacheType settings. -* Callers needing fast light-weight data stores use $wgMainStash to select - the store type from $wgObjectCaches. The default is the local database. -* Interface message overrides in the MediaWiki namespace will now be cached in - memcached and APC (if available), rather than memcached and local files. -* Added a new hook, 'RandomPageQuery', to allow modification of the query used - by Special:Random to select random pages. -* $wgTransactionalTimeLimit was added, which controls the request time limit - for potentially slow POST requests that need to be as atomic as possible. -* ResourceLoader now loads all scripts asynchronously. The top-queue and - startup modules are no longer synchronously loaded. -* 'mediawiki.ui.button' styles are no longer unconditionally loaded on every - page. During the deprecation period, the styles will only be loaded on pages - which contain 'mw-ui-button' in their HTML. Starting in 1.28, the styles will - only be loaded if explicitly required. -* If search returns zero results and current search engine has a "did you mean" - suggestion, results for suggestion will be shown. Can be disabled by setting - $wgSearchRunSuggestedQuery to false. -* Added several JavaScript libraries for uploading files to MediaWiki - from the client-side. See documentation for mw.Upload and its - subclasses for more information. -* Added OOUI dialogs and layout for file upload interfaces. See - documentation for mw.Upload.Dialog, mw.Upload.BookletLayout and its - subclasses for more information. - -== extension.json changes in 1.26 == -* (T99344) The extension.json schema is now versioned. All extensions - and skins should set a "manifest_version" property corresponding to - the schema version they were written for. The only supported version - currently is "1". -* (T102523) The error message if a non-array attribute is set was improved. -* (T107646) Configuration settings can now specify how they should be merged, - which is necessary for arrays using integer keys. -* (T110389) Adding namespaces through extension.json now actually works -* $wgNamespaceProtection can now be set in extension.json. -* $wgCapitalLinkOverrides can now be set in extension.json. -* (T97186) Extensions using a custom prefix for their configuration settings - can now set a "_prefix" key to override the default of "wg". -* (T99084) Extensions can now specify what MediaWiki core versions they - depend upon. -* (T105236) The extension.json schema now validates custom classes in - the "ResourceModules" property properly. - -=== External library changes in 1.26 === -==== Upgraded external libraries ==== -* Updated es5-shim from v4.0.0 to v4.1.5. -* Updated json2 from revision 2014-02-04 to 2015-05-03. -* Updated Sinon.JS from 1.10.3 to 1.15.4. -* Updated jQuery Client from v1.0.0 to v2.0.0. -* Updated QUnit from v1.17.1 to v1.18.0. -* Updated liuggio/statsd-php-client from v1.0.12 to v1.0.16. -* Updated oojs/oojs-ui from v0.11.3 to v0.12.12. -* Updated wikimedia/cdb from v1.0.1 to v1.3.0. -* Updated wikimedia/utfnormal from v1.0.2 to v1.0.3. -* Updated wikimedia/composer-merge-plugin from v1.0.0 to v1.3.0. -* Updated zordius/lightncandy from v0.18 to v0.21. - -==== New external libraries ==== -* Added composer/semver v1.0.0. -* Added mediawiki/at-ease v1.1.0. -* Added wikimedia/assert v0.2.2. -* Added wikimedia/ip-set v1.0.1. -* Added wikimedia/wrappedstring v2.0.0. - -==== Removed and replaced external libraries ==== -* Replaced leafo/lessphp v0.5.0 with oyejorge/less.php v1.7.0.9. - -=== Bug fixes in 1.26 === -* (T53283) load.php sometimes sends 304 response without full headers -* (T65198) Talk page tabs now have a "rel=discussion" attribute -* (T98841) {{msgnw:}} now preserves comments even when subst: is not used. -* (T104142) $wgEmergencyContact and $wgPasswordSender now use their default - value if set to an empty string. - -=== Action API changes in 1.26 === -* New-style continuation is now the default for action=continue. Clients may - use the 'rawcontinue' parameter to receive raw query-continue data, but the - new style is encouraged as it's harder to implement incorrectly. -* Deprecated API formats dump and wddx have been completely removed. -* API action=query&list=tags: The displayname can now be boolean false if the - tag is meant to be hidden from user interfaces. -* action=import no longer allows both the namespace= and rootpage= parameters - to be set. If they are both set, the value of rootpage= will be ignored. -* prop=revision output in enum mode is now sorted by timestamp rather than - revision ID. This usually won't make any difference. -* (T102645) Namespace list from meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces is now an array - with formatversion=2. -* Various other output from meta=siteinfo will now always be arrays instead of - sometimes being numerically-indexed objects with formatversion=2. -* When errors about users being blocked are returned, they now include - information about the relevant block. -* (T99926) list=random has higher limits, in line with other API modules. -* list=random's rnredirect parameter is deprecated in favor of a new - rnfilterredir parameter that also allows for listing both redirects and - non-redirects. -* list=random now supports continuation. -* API responses to GET requests may now include ETag and Last-Modified headers, - and will honor corresponding If-None-Match and If-Modified-Since on such - requests. - -=== Action API internal changes in 1.26 === -* New metadata item ApiResult::META_KVP_MERGE to allow for merging the KVP key - into the value when the value is an assoc. -* API action modules may now provide values for the RFC 7232 ETag and - Last-Modified headers. The API will check these against If-None-Match and - If-Modified-Since request headers on GET requests and avoid executing the - module when appropriate. - -=== Languages updated in 1.26 === - -MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated -regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as -changes to languages because of Phabricator reports. - -* Languages added: -** ase (American sign language), thanks to translator Icemandeaf -** dty (डोटेली/Doteli), thanks to translators जनक राज भट्ट, बिप्लब आनन्द, - मेश सिंह बोहरा, and राम प्रसाद जोशी -** luz (لئری دوٙمینی / Southern Luri) -** olo (Livvinкarjala / Livvi-Karelian), thanks to translators Denö, Hiloin Natoi, - Ilja.mos, and Mashoi7 - -=== Other changes in 1.26 === -* ChangeTags::tagDescription() will return false if the interface message - for the tag is disabled. -* Added PageHistoryPager::doBatchLookups hook. -* Added $wikiId parameter to FormatAutocomments hook. -* Added ParserCacheSaveComplete to ParserCache -* supportsDirectEditing and supportsDirectApiEditing methods added to - ContentHandler, to provide a way for ApiEditPage and EditPage to check - if direct editing of content is allowed. These methods return false, - by default for the ContentHandler base class and true for TextContentHandler - and it's derivative classes (everything in core). For Content types that - do not support direct editing, an alternative mechanism should be provided - for editing, such as action overrides or specific api modules. -* mediaWiki.confirmCloseWindow now returns an object of functions, instead of - one function. The callback can't be called directly any more. The callback - function is replaced with confirmCloseWindow.release(). -* BREAKING CHANGE: Added an optional ResouceLoaderContext parameter to - ResourceLoaderModule::getDependencies(). Extension classes that override that - method should be updated. If they aren't updated, PHP Strict standards - warnings will appear when E_STRICT error reporting is enabled. Note: in the - near future, this parameter will probably become non-optional. -* Removed maintenance script deleteImageMemcached.php. -* MWFunction::newObj() was removed (deprecated in 1.25). - ObjectFactory::getObjectFromSpec() should be used instead. -* The parser will no longer randomize the string it uses to mark the place of - items that were stripped during parsing. It will use a fixed string instead. - This causes the parser to re-use the regular expressions it uses to search - and replace markers rather than generate novel expressions on each parse. - Re-using regular expressions will improve performance on HHVM and the - forthcoming PHP 7. The interfaces changes accompanying this change are: - - Parser::getRandomString() and Parser::uniqPrefix() have been deprecated. - - The $uniq_prefix argument for Parser::extractTagsAndParams() and the - $prefix argument for StripState::_construct() are deprecated and their - value is ignored. -* wfSuppressWarnings() and wfRestoreWarnings() were split into a separate library, - mediawiki/at-ease, and are now deprecated. Callers should use - MediaWiki\suppressWarnings() and MediaWiki\restoreWarnings() directly. -* The Block class constructor now takes an associative array of parameters - instead of many optional positional arguments. Calling the constructor the old - way will issue a deprecation warning. -* The jquery.mwExtension module was deprecated. -* $wgSpecialPageGroups was removed (deprecated in 1.21). -* SpecialPageFactory::setGroup was removed (deprecated in 1.21). -* SpecialPageFactory::getGroup was removed (deprecated in 1.21). -* DatabaseBase::ignoreErrors() is now protected. -* BREAKING CHANGE: mediawiki.legacy.ajax has been removed, following - a lengthy deprecation period. -* The ScopedPHPTimeout class was removed. -* Removed maintenance script fixSlaveDesync.php. -* Watchlist tokens, SpecialResetTokens, and User::getTokenFromOption() - are deprecated. Applications using those can work via the OAuth - extension instead. New tokens types should not be added. -* DatabaseBase::errorCount() was removed (unused). -* $wgDeferredUpdateList was removed. -* DeferredUpdates::addHTMLCacheUpdate() was removed. - -== Compatibility == - -MediaWiki 1.26 requires PHP 5.3.3 or later. There is experimental support for -HHVM 3.3.0. - -MySQL is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used, but -support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for -Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server. - -The supported versions are: - -* MySQL 5.0.3 or later -* PostgreSQL 8.3 or later -* SQLite 3.3.7 or later -* Oracle 9.0.1 or later -* Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (9.00.1399) - -== Upgrading == - -1.26 has several database changes since 1.25, and will not work without schema -updates. Note that due to changes to some very large tables like the revision -table, the schema update may take quite long (minutes on a medium sized site, -many hours on a large site). - -If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons -repository, make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise -due to database schema changes. - -If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure -new database fields are filled with data. - -If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, you should upgrade to -1.5 first. The upgrade script maintenance/upgrade1_5.php has been removed -with MediaWiki 1.21. - -Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading! - -See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions. - -For notes on 1.25.x and older releases, see HISTORY. - -== Online documentation == - -Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is available on -MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except -for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain): - - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation - -== Mailing list == - -A mailing list is available for MediaWiki user support and discussion: - - https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l - -A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available: - - https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce - -It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're -going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes. - -== IRC help == - -There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net. -- 2.20.1