** This is currently gated by $wgCommentTableSchemaMigrationStage. Most wikis
can set this to MIGRATION_NEW and run maintenance/migrateComments.php as
soon as any necessary extensions are updated.
+* (T138166) Added ability for users to prohibit other users from sending them
+ emails with Special:Emailuser. Can be enabled by setting
+ $wgEnableUserEmailBlacklist to true.
+* (T67297) $wgBrowserBlacklist is deprecated, and changing it will have no effect.
+ Instead, users using browsers that do not support Unicode will be unable to edit
+ and should upgrade to a modern browser instead.
=== External library changes in 1.30 ===
==== Upgraded external libraries ====
-* mediawiki/mediawiki-codesniffer updated to 0.8.1.
-* wikimedia/composer-merge-plugin updated to 1.4.1.
+* Updated justinrainbow/json-schema from v3.0 to v5.2.
+* Updated mediawiki/mediawiki-codesniffer from v0.7.2 to v0.12.0.
+* Updated wikimedia/composer-merge-plugin from v1.4.0 to v1.4.1.
+* Updated wikimedia/relpath from v1.0.3 to v2.0.0.
+* Updated OOjs from v2.0.0 to v2.1.0.
+* Updated OOUI from v0.21.1 to v0.23.0.
+* Updated QUnit from v1.23.1 to v2.4.0.
+* Updated phpunit/phpunit from v4.8.35 to v4.8.36.
==== New external libraries ====
* The class \TestingAccessWrapper has been moved to the external library
wikimedia/testing-access-wrapper and renamed \Wikimedia\TestingAccessWrapper.
+* Purtle, a fast, lightweight RDF generator.
==== Removed and replaced external libraries ====
* …
* Added: kbp (Kabɩyɛ / Kabiyè)
* Added: skr (Saraiki, سرائیکی)
* Added: tay (Tayal / Atayal)
+* Removed: tokipona (Toki Pona)
==== Pig Latin added ====
* (T45547) Added Pig Latin, a made-up English variant (en-x-piglatin),
RunningStat\RunningStat should be used instead.
* MWMemcached and MemCachedClientforWiki classes (deprecated in 1.27) were removed.
The MemcachedClient class should be used instead.
-* EditPage::isOouiEnabled() is deprecated and will always return true.
-* EditPage::getSummaryInput() and ::getSummaryInputOOUI() are deprecated. Please
- use ::getSummaryInputWidget() instead.
-* EditPage::getCheckboxes() and ::getCheckboxesOOUI() are deprecated. Please
- use ::getCheckboxesWidget() instead.
+* EditPage underwent some refactoring and deprecations:
+ * EditPage::isOouiEnabled() is deprecated and will always return true.
+ * EditPage::getSummaryInput() and ::getSummaryInputOOUI() are deprecated. Please
+ use ::getSummaryInputWidget() instead.
+ * EditPage::getCheckboxes() and ::getCheckboxesOOUI() are deprecated. Please
+ use ::getCheckboxesWidget() instead.
+ * Creating an EditPage instance without calling EditPage::setContextTitle() should
+ be avoided and will be deprecated in a future release.
+ * EditPage::safeUnicodeInput() and ::safeUnicodeOutput() are deprecated and no-ops.
+ * EditPage::$isCssJsSubpage, ::$isCssSubpage, and ::$isJsSubpage are deprecated. The
+ corresponding methods from Title should be used instead.
+ * EditPage::$isWrongCaseCssJsPage is deprecated. There is no replacement.
+ * EditPage::$mArticle and ::$mTitle are deprecated for public usage. The getters
+ ::getArticle() and ::getTitle() should be used instead.
+ * Trying to control or fake EditPage context by overriding $wgUser, $wgRequest, $wgOut,
+ and $wgLang is no longer supported and won't work. The IContextSource returned from
+ EditPage::getContext() must be modified instead.
* Parser::getRandomString() (deprecated in 1.26) was removed.
* Parser::uniqPrefix() (deprecated in 1.26) was removed.
* Parser::extractTagsAndParams() now only accepts three arguments. The fourth,
(formerly it was needed by PostgreSQL and Oracle), and is now deprecated.
* (T146591) The lc_lang_key index on the l10n_cache table has been changed into a
PRIMARY KEY.
+* (T157227) bot_password.bp_user, change_tag.ct_log_id, change_tag.ct_rev_id,
+ page_restrictions.pr_user, tag_summary.ts_log_id, tag_summary.ts_rev_id and
+ user_properties.up_user have all been made unsigned on MySQL.
+* DB_SLAVE is deprecated. DB_REPLICA should be used instead.
+* wfUsePHP() is deprecated.
+* wfFixSessionID() was removed.
+* wfShellExec() and related functions are deprecated, use Shell::command(). This also
+ slightly changes the behavior of how execution time limits are calculated when only
+ some of defaults are overridden per-call. When in doubt, always override both wall
+ clock and CPU time.
+* (T138166) SpecialEmailUser::getTarget() now requires a second argument, the sending
+ user object. Using the method without the second argument is deprecated.
+* (T67297) Browsers that don't support Unicode will have their edits rejected.
+* (T178450) The module 'jquery.badge' is deprecated and will be removed in a future
+ release. For notifying the user of an event, the Notifications ("Echo") system
+ should be used instead.
== Compatibility ==
MediaWiki 1.30 requires PHP 5.5.9 or later. There is experimental support for