* (T188472) The 'comma' value for $wgArticleCountMethod is no longer supported for
performance reasons, and installations with this setting will now work as if it
was configured with 'any'.
+* $wgLogAutopatrol now defaults to false instead of true.
=== New features in 1.31 ===
+* (T76554) User sub-pages named ….json are now protected in the same way that ….js
+ and ….css pages are, so that configuration options can safely be placed there.
* Wikimedia\Rdbms\IDatabase->select() and similar methods now support
joins with parentheses for grouping.
* As a first pass in standardizing dialog boxes across the MediaWiki product,
the SQL query. The ActorMigration class may also be used to get feature-flagged
information needed to access actor-related fields during the migration
period.
+* Added Wikimedia\Rdbms\IDatabase::cancelAtomic(), to roll back an atomic
+ section without having to roll back the whole transaction.
+* Wikimedia\Rdbms\IDatabase::doAtomicSection(), non-native ::insertSelect(),
+ and non-MySQL ::replace() and ::upsert() no longer roll back the whole
+ transaction on failure.
+* (T189785) Added a monthly heartbeat ping to the pingback feature.
+* The CLI installer (maintenance/install.php) learned to detect and include
+ extensions. Pass --with-extensions to enable that feature.
+* (T184791) rc_patrolled now has three states: "0" for unpatrolled,
+ "1" for manually patrolled and "2" for autopatrolled actions.
=== External library changes in 1.31 ===
* OutputPage::enableSectionEditLinks()
* OutputPage::sectionEditLinksEnabled()
* The public ParserOutput state fields $mTOCEnabled and $mEditSectionTokens are also deprecated.
-* The following methods and constants from the WatchedItem class were deprecated in
- 1.27 have been removed.
+* The following methods and constants from the WatchedItem class, which were deprecated in
+ 1.27, have been removed.
* WatchedItem::getTitle()
* WatchedItem::fromUserTitle()
* WatchedItem::addWatch()
* ::clearCookie()
* ::setExtendedLoginCookie()
Note that User::setCookies() remains, and is not deprecated.
+* Also in User, some auth-related methods which were deprecated in 1.27, have been removed:
+ * ::getEditTokenTimestamp() – use MediaWiki\Session\Token::getTimestamp()
+ * ::getPasswordFactory() – create a PasswordFactory directly
+ * ::passwordChangeInputAttribs()
* The global functions wfProfileIn and wfProfileOut, deprecated in 1.25, have been removed.
* The following methods related to caching of half-parsed HTML were deprecated:
* Parser::serializeHalfParsedText()
* Parser::isValidHalfParsedText()
* StripState::getSubState()
* StripState::merge()
-* The "free" class is now only applied to unbracketed URLs in wikitext. Links
+* The "free" CSS class is now only applied to unbracketed URLs in wikitext. Links
written using square brackets will get the class "text" not "free".
+* SpecialPageFactory::getList(), deprecated in 1.24, has been removed. You can
+ use ::getNames() instead.
* OpenSearch::getOpenSearchTemplate(), deprecated in 1.25, has been removed. You
can use ApiOpenSearch::getOpenSearchTemplate() instead.
* The global function wfBaseConvert, deprecated in 1.27, has been removed. Use
transaction also results in an exception. Previously these were logged as errors.
The startAtomic() and endAtomic() methods, or AtomicSectionUpdate should be used
instead.
+* The global function wfOutputHandler() was removed, use the its replacement
+ MediaWiki\OutputHandler::handle() instead. The global function was only sometimes defined.
+ Its replacement is always available via the autoloader.
+* ChangeTags::listExtensionActivatedTags and ::listExtensionDefinedTags, deprecated
+ in 1.28, have been removed. Use ::listSoftwareActivatedTags() and
+ ::listSoftwareDefinedTags() instead.
+* Title::getTitleInvalidRegex(), deprecated in 1.25, has been removed. You
+ can use MediaWikiTitleCodec::getTitleInvalidRegex() instead.
+* HTMLForm & VFormHTMLForm::isVForm(), deprecated in 1.25, have been removed.
+* The ProfileSection class, deprecated in 1.25 and unused, has been removed.
== Compatibility ==
MediaWiki 1.31 requires PHP 5.5.9 or later. Although HHVM 3.18.5 or later is supported,
The supported versions are:
* MySQL 5.0.3 or later
-* PostgreSQL 8.3 or later
+* PostgreSQL 9.2 or later
* SQLite 3.3.7 or later
* Oracle 9.0.1 or later
* Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (9.00.1399)