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1 == MediaWiki 1.32 ==
2
3 THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
4
5 MediaWiki 1.32 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in
6 production.
7
8 === Configuration changes in 1.32 ===
9
10 ==== New configuration ====
11 * $wgJpegQuality – The quality of JPEG thumbnails is now configurable through
12 this setting. The default is 80, which matches the quality of JPEG thumbnails
13 previously generated by ImageMagick. The quality of JPEG thumbnails generated
14 by GD was previously 95, but now uses the $wgJpegQuality setting as well.
15 * $wgCookieSetOnIpBlock - This determines whether to set a cookie when an IP
16 user is blocked. Doing so means that a blocked user, even after moving to a
17 new IP address, will still be blocked.
18 * $wgRawHtmlMessages – This new configuration setting is added for listing
19 messages which are displayed as raw HTML.
20 * $wgCSPHeader and $wgCSPReportOnlyHeader – You can now define a
21 "Content Security Policy" for your wiki. This adds a defense-in-depth feature
22 to stop an attacker who has found a bug in the parser allowing them to insert
23 malicious attributes. Disabled by default. (T135963)
24 * $wgGroupPermissions – A new user group, 'interface-admin', is added for
25 controlling access to sitewide CSS/JS (and editing other users' CSS/JS). No
26 other group has 'editsitecss', 'editusercss', 'editsitejs' or 'edituserjs'
27 by default.
28 * $wgGrantPermissions – A new grant group, 'editsiteconfig', is added for
29 granting the above rights.
30
31 ==== Changed configuration ====
32 * $wgUseAjax – This setting, deprecated in 1.31, is now ignored.
33 * $wgDefaultUserOptions – The default watchlist view time (watchlistdays) has
34 been increased from 3 to 7 days. (T194414)
35 * $wgGroupPermissions – The right to edit sitewide Javascript
36 (e.g. MediaWiki:Common.js), CSS or JSON was separated from 'editinterface'
37 and is available under 'editsitejs'/'editsitecss'/'editsitejson'. Having
38 'editinterface' is still necessary to edit such pages.
39 * $wgMultiContentRevisionSchemaMigrationStage now defaults to writing both the
40 old and the new schema, but reading the new schema, so Multi-Content Revisions
41 (MCR) are now functional per default. The new default value of the setting is
42 SCHEMA_COMPAT_WRITE_BOTH | SCHEMA_COMPAT_READ_NEW.
43
44 ==== Removed configuration ====
45 * $wgEnableAPI and $wgEnableWriteAPI – These settings, deprecated in 1.31,
46 have been removed. (T115414)
47 * $wgSiteSupportPage – This setting, unused since 1.5, was removed.
48 * $wgBrowserBlacklist – This setting, deprecated in 1.30, was removed.
49 * $wgExperimentalHtmlIds – This setting, deprecated since 1.30, was removed.
50 The 'html5-legacy' value for $wgFragmentMode is no longer accepted.
51 * $wgPasswordSenderName - This setting, ignored since 1.23 by MediaWiki and
52 most extensions, is no longer set. Instead, you can modify the system
53 message `emailsender`.
54 * $wgTidyConfig – The experimental Html5Internal and Html5Depurate tidy drivers
55 were removed. RemexHtml, which is the default, should be used instead.
56
57 === New features in 1.32 ===
58 * (T112474) Generalized the ResourceLoader mechanism for overriding modules
59 using a particular page during edit previews.
60 * (T12331) You can now log page creation events by setting $wgPageCreationLog
61 to true.
62 * Added 'ApiParseMakeOutputPage' hook.
63 * (T174313) Added checkbox on Special:ListUsers to display only users in
64 temporary user groups.
65 * (T152462) A cookie can now be set when an IP user is blocked to track that
66 user if they move to a new IP address. This is disabled by default.
67 * (T194950) Added 'ApiMaxLagInfo' hook.
68 * SpecialPage::checkLoginSecurityLevel() will now preserve POST data when
69 reauthenticating.
70 * FormSpecialPage::execute() will now call checkLoginSecurityLevel() if
71 getLoginSecurityLevel() returns non-false.
72 * The 'ImageBeforeProduceHTML' hook is now passed three new parameters, $parser,
73 &$query and &$widthOption, allowing extensions even finer control over the
74 resulting HTML code.
75 * Added new 'ArticleShowPatrolFooter' hook, which allows extensions to determine
76 if the [mark as patrolled] link should be shown at the footer of patrollable
77 pages.
78 * The array of hidden options ($opts) passed to the 'SpecialSearchPowerBox' hook
79 is now passed by reference, allowing extensions to modify or even unset it.
80 * Added new 'OutputPageAfterGetHeadLinksArray' hook, allowing extensions to
81 modify the return value of OutputPage#getHeadLinksArray in order to add,
82 remove or otherwise alter the elements to be output in the page <head>.
83 * (T28934) The 'HistoryPageToolLinks' hook allows extensions to append
84 additional links to the subtitle of a history page.
85 * The 'GetLinkColours' hook now receives an additional $title parameter,
86 the Title object of the page being parsed, on which the links will be shown.
87 * (T194731) DifferenceEngine supports multiple slots. Added SlotDiffRenderer to
88 render diffs between two Content objects, and DifferenceEngine::setRevisions()
89 to render diffs between two custom (potentially multi-content) revisions.
90 Added GetSlotDiffRenderer hook which works like GetDifferenceEngine for slots.
91 * Added a temporary action=mcrundo to the web UI, as the normal undo logic
92 can't yet handle MCR and deadlines are forcing is to put off fixing that.
93 This action should be considered deprecated and should not be used directly.
94 * Extensions overriding ContentHandler::getUndoContent() will need to be
95 updated for the changed method signature.
96 * Added a new hook, 'UserGetRightsRemove', which can be used to remove rights
97 from user. Unlike the 'UserGetRights' it will ensure that removed rights
98 will not be reinserted.
99
100 === External library changes in 1.32 ===
101
102 ==== New external libraries ====
103 * Added wikimedia/xmp-reader 0.6.0.
104 * Added Add pear/Net_SMTP 1.8.0.
105 * …
106
107 ==== Changed external libraries ====
108 * Updated qunitjs from 2.4.0 to 2.6.2.
109 * Updated wikimedia/scoped-callback from 1.0.0 to 2.0.0.
110 ** ScopedCallback objects can no longer be serialized.
111 * Updated wikimedia/wrappedstring from 2.3.0 to 3.0.1.
112 * Updated mediawiki/mediawiki-codesniffer from v20.0.0 to v21.0.0.
113 * Updated composer/spdx-licenses from 1.3.0 to 1.4.0.
114 * Updated jquery.i18n from 1.0.4 to 1.0.5.
115 * Updated wikimedia/timestamp from 1.0.0 to 2.2.0.
116 * Updated wikimedia/remex-html from 1.0.3 to 2.0.0.
117 * Updated jquery from v3.2.1 to v3.3.1.
118
119 ==== Removed external libraries ====
120 * pear/mail_mime-decode was removed.
121 * …
122
123 === Bug fixes in 1.32 ===
124 * SpecialPage::execute() will now only call checkLoginSecurityLevel() if
125 getLoginSecurityLevel() returns non-false.
126 * (T43720, T46197) Improved page display title handling for category pages
127 * (T65080) Fixed resetting options of some types via API action=options.
128
129 === Action API changes in 1.32 ===
130 * Added templated parameters.
131 * A module can define a templated parameter like "{fruit}-quantity", where
132 the actual parameters recognized correspond to the values of a multi-valued
133 parameter. Then clients can make requests like
134 "fruits=apples|bananas&apples-quantity=1&bananas-quantity=5".
135 * action=paraminfo will return templated parameter definitions separately
136 from normal parameters. All parameter definitions now include an "index"
137 key to allow clients to maintain parameter ordering when merging normal and
138 templated parameters.
139 * It is now an error to submit too many values for a multi-valued parameter.
140 This has generated a warning since MediaWiki 1.14.
141 * Assertion failures from the 'assert' and 'assertuser' parameters will no
142 longer use the action module's custom response format, for the few modules
143 that use custom formatters that handle errors.
144 * (T198935) User list preferences such as `email-blacklist` and similar
145 extension preferences are no longer represented as arrays when returned by
146 action=query&meta=userinfo&uiprop=options.
147 * 'missingparam' errors will now use the prefixed parameter name in the code
148 and error text, e.g. "noxxfoo" and "The 'xxfoo' parameter must be set" rather
149 than "nofoo" and "The 'foo' parameter must be set".
150 * action=query&prop=revisions now takes a 'rvslots' parameter to indicate the
151 multi-content revision slots for which content should be returned. It also
152 has a new rvprop, 'roles', to indicate which roles have slots. A deprecation
153 warning will be issued if rvprop=content or rvprop=contentmodel are used
154 without rvslots.
155 * The rvcontentformat parameter to action=query&prop=revisions has been
156 deprecated. Clients should be prepared to deal with the default format for
157 relevant models.
158 * Use of the deprecated parameters rvexpandtemplates, rvgeneratexml, rvparse,
159 rvdiffto, rvdifftotext, rvdifftotextpst, rvcontentformat, or the deprecated
160 rvprop=parsetree is forbidden with the new 'rvslots' parameter.
161 * action=query&prop=deletedrevisions, action=query&list=allrevisions, and
162 action=query&list=alldeletedrevisions are changed similarly to
163 &prop=revisions (see the three previous items).
164 * (T174032) action=compare now supports multi-content revisions.
165 * It has a 'slots' parameter to select diffing of individual slots. The
166 default behavior is to return one combined diff.
167 * The 'fromtext', 'fromsection', 'fromcontentmodel', 'fromcontentformat',
168 'totext', 'tosection', 'tocontentmodel', and 'tocontentformat' parameters
169 are deprecated. Specify the new 'fromslots' and 'toslots' to identify which
170 slots have text supplied and the corresponding templated parameters for
171 each slot.
172 * The behavior of 'fromsection' and 'tosection' of extracting one section's
173 content is not being preserved. 'fromsection-{slot}' and 'tosection-{slot}'
174 instead expand the given text as if for a section edit. This effectively
175 declines T183823 in favor of T185723.
176 * (T198214) The 'disabletidy' parameter to action=parse has been
177 deprecated; untidy output will not be supported by future wikitext
178 parsers.
179
180 === Action API internal changes in 1.32 ===
181 * Added 'ApiParseMakeOutputPage' hook.
182 * Parameter names may no longer contain '{' or '}', as these are now used for
183 templated parameters.
184 * (T194950) Added 'ApiMaxLagInfo' hook.
185 * The following methods now take a RevisionRecord rather than a Revision. No
186 external callers are known.
187 * ApiFeedContributions::feedItemAuthor()
188 * ApiFeedContributions::feedItemDesc()
189 * ApiQueryRevisionsBase::extractRevisionInfo()
190
191 === Languages updated in 1.32 ===
192 MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated regularly.
193 Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as changes to languages
194 because of Phabricator reports.
195
196 * (T193566) Added language support for Ambonese Malay (abs).
197 * (T194047) Added language support for Shawiya, Latin script (shy-latn).
198 * (T195940) Added language support for Batak Mandailing (btm).
199 * (T137491) Added language support for Standard Moroccan Amazigh (zgh).
200 * (T198132) Added language support for Manipuri (mni).
201 * (T201276) Added language support for Western Armenian (hyw).
202 * (T201583) Added language support for Mon (mnw).
203
204 === Breaking changes in 1.32 ===
205 * $wgRequestTime, deprecated in 1.25, was removed. Use
206 $_SERVER['REQUEST_TIME_FLOAT'] or WebRequest::getElapsedTime() instead.
207 * The MediaWikiI18N class, deprecated in 1.31, was removed.
208 * QuickTemplate::setTranslator(), deprecated in 1.31, was removed. Use
209 Skin::msg() instead.
210 * wfInitShellLocale(), deprecated in 1.30, was removed.
211 * wfShellExecDisabled(), deprecated in 1.30, was removed.
212 * The type string for the parameter $lang of DateFormatter::getInstance,
213 deprecated in 1.31, was removed.
214 * The EDIT_TOKEN_SUFFIX constant deprecated in 1.27, was removed. Use
215 MediaWiki\Session\Token::SUFFIX instead.
216 * EditPage::isOouiEnabled() deprecated in 1.30, was removed.
217 * mw.util.wikiGetlink(), deprecated in 1.23, was removed. Use mw.util.getUrl()
218 instead.
219 * (T61113) The following methods and constants from the Revision class, which
220 were deprecated in 1.25, have now been removed:
221 * Revision::getRawUser()
222 * Revision::getRawUserText()
223 * Revision::getRawComment()
224 * window.gM() from mediawiki.jqueryMsg, deprecated in 1.23, was removed. Use
225 mw.msg() or mw.message() instead.
226 * mw.util.escapeId(), deprecated in 1.30, was removed. Use
227 mw.util.escapeIdForAttribute or mw.util.escapeIdForLink instead.
228 * mw.util.updateTooltipAccessKeys(), deprecated in 1.24, was removed. Use
229 jquery.accessKeyLabel instead.
230 * The SqlDataUpdate class, deprecated in 1.28, has been removed.
231 * The Html5Internal and Html5Depurate tidy driver classes were removed, along
232 with the Balancer tidy implementation. Both implementations were experimental,
233 and were replaced by RemexHtml.
234 * (T179624) Job::insert() and ::batchInsert(), deprecated in 1.21, were both
235 removed. Use JobQueueGroup::singleton()->push() instead.
236 * The jquery.footHovzer module, for mediawiki.debug, was removed.
237 * The es5-shim module, empty and deprecated since 1.29, was removed.
238 * the dom-level2-shim module, empty and deprecated since 1.29, was removed.
239 * the json module, empty and deprecated since 1.29, was removed.
240 * The mediawiki.widgets.visibleByteLimit module alias, deprecated in 1.32, was
241 removed. Use mediawiki.widgets.visibleLengthLimit instead.
242 * The jquery.farbtastic module, unused since 1.18, was removed.
243 * The 'jquery.expandableField' module, unused since 1.22, was removed.
244 * (T181318) The $wgStyleVersion setting and its appendage to various script and
245 style URLs in OutputPage, deprecated in 1.31, was removed.
246 * The hooks 'PreferencesFormPreSave' and 'PreferencesGetLegend' may provide
247 any HTMLForm object rather than PreferencesForm.
248 * The non namespaced TimestampException class, deprecated in 1.29, was removed.
249 Use Wikimedia\Timestamp\TimestampException instead.
250 * The global functions codepointToUtf8, hexSequenceToUtf8, utf8ToHexSequence,
251 utf8ToCodepoint, and escapeSingleString (deprecated in 1.25) were removed.
252 The UtfNormal\Utils class from the utfnormal library should be used instead.
253 * The deprecated UTF8_ and UNICODE_ constants were removed. The class constants
254 from the UtfNormal\Constants class from the utfnormal library should be used
255 * (T140807) The wgResourceLoaderLESSImportPaths configuration option was removed
256 from ResourceLoader. Instead, use `@import` statements in LESS to import
257 files directly from nearby directories within the same project.
258 * (T140804) The wgResourceLoaderLESSVars configuration option, deprecated
259 since 1.30, was removed. Instead, to expose variables from PHP to LESS, use
260 the ResourceLoaderModule::getLessVars() method.
261 * The protected methods PHPSessionHandler::returnSuccess() and returnFailure(),
262 only needed for PHP5 compatibility, have been removed. It now uses the boolean
263 values `true` and `false` respectively.
264 * The $parserMemc global and wfGetParserCacheStorage(), deprecated since 1.30,
265 were removed. Use the ParserCache class instead.
266 * ScopedCallback (deprecated in 1.28) was removed. Use Wikimedia\ScopedCallback
267 instead.
268 * Support for ResourceLoaderModule::getModifiedTime() and getModifiedHash(),
269 deprecated since 1.26, was removed. Use getDefinitionSummary() instead.
270 * (T195256) Skins are recommended not to rely on JavaScript for the "mw-jump"
271 and "jump-to-nav" accessibility links. To this end, the "jquery.mw-jump"
272 is no longer loaded by default. The Vector and MonoBook skins have made a
273 minor change to implement the toggle feature with CSS instead. To restore
274 prior functionality, either explicitly load "jquery.mw-jump" in your skin
275 or refer to T195256 for details on how to make the same change.
276 * Hook 'EditPageBeforeEditChecks' was removed;
277 use 'EditPageGetCheckboxesDefinition' instead.
278 * Linker::getLinkColour() and DummyLinker::getLinkColour(), deprecated since
279 1.28, were removed. LinkRenderer::getLinkClasses() should be used instead.
280 * Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer::getLaggedSlaveMode(), deprecated in 1.28, has
281 been removed. Use Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer::getLaggedReplicaMode()
282 instead.
283 * mw.widgets.CategoryMultiselectWidget now uses TagMultiselectWidget instead of
284 CapsuleMultiselectWidget. The following methods may no longer be used:
285 * setItemsFromData: Use setValue instead
286 * getItemsData: Use getItems instead and get the data property
287 * Two OutputPage methods, addMetadataLink() and getMetadataAttribute(), were
288 removed. Use addLink() instead.
289 * Another two OutputPage methods, setPageTitleActionText() and
290 getPageTitleActionText(), were removed. They did nothing since 1.15 (almost
291 ten years). Use setHTMLTitle() directly.
292 * All MagicWord static member variables have been removed. Use appropriate
293 hooks or MagicWordFactory methods instead.
294 * MagicWord::clearCache() has been removed. Instead, create a new
295 MagicWordFactory, such as by calling
296 resetServiceForTesting( 'MagicWordFactory' ) on a MediaWikiServices.
297 * mw.util.init() has been removed. This function is not needed anymore and was
298 a no-op function since 1.30.
299 * SpecialPageFactory::resetList() is a no-op. Call overrideMwServices()
300 instead.
301 * MediaWiki no longer supports a StartProfiler.php file.
302 Define $wgProfiler via LocalSettings.php instead.
303 * The mw.loader.addSource() is now considered a private method, and no longer
304 supports the `id, url` signature. Use the `Object` parameter instead.
305 * The backwards-compatibility code in HTMLForm to add a drop-down control to an
306 option that is not set to be a drop-down if the "mw-chosen" class is present,
307 is now removed.
308 * Several collations were removed. They were workarounds for bugs in the ICU
309 library and they are no longer needed (as of ICU 57.1):
310 * 'uppercase-se' (NorthernSamiUppercaseCollation) - use 'uca-se' instead
311 * 'xx-uca-et' (CollationEt) - use 'uca-et' instead
312 * 'xx-uca-fa' (CollationFa) - use 'uca-fa' instead
313 * The hooks 'SpecialRecentChangesFilters' & 'SpecialWatchlistFilters' deprecated
314 in 1.23 were removed. Instead, use 'ChangesListSpecialPageStructuredFilters'.
315 The ChangesListSpecialPage code for these legacy hooks, and their use in
316 SpecialRecentchanges.php and SpecialWatchlist, was also removed:
317 * ChangesListSpecialPage->getCustomFilters()
318 * ChangesListSpecialPage->getFilterGroupDefinitionFromLegacyCustomFilters()
319 * ChangesListSpecialPage::customFilters
320 * The global function wfUseMW, deprecated since 1.26, has now been removed. Use
321 the "requires" property of static extension registration instead.
322 * $wgSpecialPages no longer accepts array syntax, deprecated since 1.18.
323 * The MailAddress constructor can no longer be called with a User object,
324 behaviour which has been deprecated since 1.24.
325 * LBFactory, deprecated since 1.28, has been removed. Instead, use
326 Wikimedia\Rdbms\LBFactory.
327 * The MimeMagic class, deprecated since 1.28 has been removed. Get a
328 MimeAnalyzer instance from MediaWikiServices instead.
329 * The '--tidy' option to maintenance/parse.php has been removed. Tidying
330 the output is now the default. Use '--no-tidy' to bypass the tidy
331 phase.
332 * The global function wfErrorLog, deprecated since 1.25, has now been removed.
333 Use MWLoggerLegacyLogger::emit or UDPTransport.
334 * The hooks 'SpecialRecentChangesQuery' & 'SpecialWatchlistQuery', deprecated in
335 1.23, were removed. Instead, use ChangesListSpecialPageStructuredFilters or
336 ChangesListSpecialPageQuery.
337 * The global function wfUsePHP, deprecated since 1.30, has now been removed. To
338 assert a newer version of PHP than MediaWiki does, use extension registration.
339 * The hook 'ChangesListSpecialPageFilters', deprecated in 1.29, has now been
340 removed. Use the 'ChangesListSpecialPageStructuredFilters' hook instead.
341 * DeferredUpdates::setImmediateMode(), deprecated since 1.29, has been removed.
342 * File / MediaHandler::getStreamHeaders(), deprecated since 1.30, was removed.
343 * The hook 'DoEditSectionLink', deprecated since 1.25, has been removed. Use
344 the hook 'SkinEditSectionLinks' instead.
345 * The hook 'UserGetImplicitGroups', deprecated since 1.25, has been removed.
346
347 === Deprecations in 1.32 ===
348 * HTMLForm::setSubmitProgressive() is deprecated. No need to call it. Submit
349 button is already marked as progressive.
350 * Skin::setupSkinUserCss() is deprecated. Adding of modules to load
351 has been centralised to Skin::getDefaultModules(), which is now capable
352 of queueing style modules as well.
353 * OutputPage::addModuleScripts() and ParserOutput::addModuleScripts are
354 deprecated. Use addModules() instead.
355 * Overriding SearchEngine::{searchText,searchTitle,searchArchiveTitle}
356 in extending classes is deprecated. Extend related doSearch* methods
357 instead.
358 * The following 'mediawiki.api' plugin modules were merged into mediawiki.api
359 and deprecated: mediawiki.api.category, mediawiki.api.edit,
360 mediawiki.api.login, mediawiki.api.options, mediawiki.api.parse,
361 mediawiki.api.upload, mediawiki.api.user, mediawiki.api.watch,
362 mediawiki.api.messages, and mediawiki.api.rollback.
363 * ApiBase::truncateArray() is deprecated. No replacement, as nothing is known
364 to use it.
365 * WatchAction::getUnwatchToken is deprecated. Use WatchAction::getWatchToken
366 with the 'unwatch' action parameter instead.
367 * IcuCollation::getICUVersion() is deprecated, as you can just use the PHP
368 constant INTL_ICU_VERSION directly in all versions that MediaWiki supports.
369 * Parser::fetchFile() is deprecated. Use ::fetchFileAndTitle() instead.
370 * The ApiQueryContributions class has been renamed to ApiQueryUserContribs.
371 * The XMPInfo, XMPReader, and XMPValidate classes have been deprecated in favor
372 of the namespaced classes provided by the wikimedia/xmp-reader library.
373 * SearchResultSet::{next,rewind} are deprecated. Calling code should
374 use foreach on the SearchResultSet, or the extractResults method. Extending
375 code should override extractResults.
376 * Instantiating SearchResultSet directly is deprecated. SearchEngine
377 implementations must subclass SearchResultSet for their purposes.
378 * SearchResult::setExtensionData argument has been changed from accepting an
379 array to accepting a Closure that returns the array when called.
380 * Class CryptRand, everything in MWCryptRand except generateHex() and function
381 MediaWikiServices::getCryptRand() are deprecated, use random_bytes() to
382 generate cryptographically secure random byte sequences.
383 * Parser::getConverterLanguage() is deprecated. Use ::getTargetLanguage()
384 instead.
385 * Language::markNoConversion() is deprecated. It confused readers because
386 it had unexpected behavior (only marking text if it looked like a URL)
387 and was only used in a single place in the code. Use
388 LanguageConverter::markNoConversion() instead.
389 * (T197492) Language::truncate() was soft deprecated in 1.31 and is
390 hard deprecated in this release. It has been split into two similar
391 methods, Language::truncateForVisual() and Language::truncateForDatabase(),
392 which measure length in characters and bytes, respectively. Use
393 Language::truncateForVisual() when possible to provide equity to users
394 of multibyte scripts.
395 * (T176526) EditPage::getContextTitle() falling back to $wgTitle when the
396 context title is unset is now deprecated; anything creating an EditPage
397 instance should set the context title via ::setContextTitle().
398 * The 'jquery.hidpi' module (polyfill for IMG srcset) is deprecated.
399 * ResourceLoaderStartUpModule::getStartupModules() and ::getLegacyModules()
400 are deprecated. These concepts are obsolete and have no replacement.
401 * String type for $lang of DifferenceEngine::setTextLanguage is deprecated.
402 * The following methods of OutputPage are now deprecated in favour
403 of using showFatalError directly: OutputPage::showFileDeleteError()
404 OutputPage::showFileNotFoundError(), OutputPage::showFileRenameError()
405 OutputPage::showFileCopyError() and OutputPage::showUnexpectedValueError().
406 * The Replacer, DoubleReplacer, HashtableReplacer, and RegexlikeReplacer
407 classes are now deprecated. Use a Closure instead.
408 * (T194263) ContentHandler::makeParserOptions() is deprecated. Use
409 WikiPage::makeParserOptions() or ParserOptions::newCanonical() instead.
410 * (T100681) Use of the Parsoid v1 API with the VirtualRESTService, deprecated in
411 MediaWiki 1.26, is now hard-deprecated. All known clients were converted to
412 the Parsoid v3 API in May 2015.
413 * $input is deprecated in hook 'LogEventsListGetExtraInputs'. Use
414 $formDescriptor instead.
415 * SearchEngine::transformSearchTerm( $term ) should no longer be called prior
416 to running searchText. This method was mainly implemented to support the
417 'prefix' URI param in SpecialSearch, but there are no reasons to expose this
418 logic as it should be handled internally by SearchEngine implementations
419 supporting this feature. SearchEngine implementations should no longer
420 override this methods.
421 * SearchEngine::replacePrefixes( $query ) should no longer be called prior
422 to running searchText/searchTitle.
423 * (T199657) Messages for $wgFilterLogTypes labels should be no longer be in the
424 'log-show-hide-[type]' format. Instead use 'logeventslist-[type]-log'.
425 * Global functions wfArrayFilter() and wfArrayFilterByKey() are deprecated.
426 use array_filter() directly.
427 * The $wgShowSQLErrors global is deprecated and nonfunctional.
428 Set $wgShowExceptionDetails and/or $wgShowHostnames instead.
429 * The $wgShowDBErrorBacktrace global is deprecated and nonfunctional.
430 Set $wgShowExceptionDetails instead.
431 * Public access to the DifferenceEngine properties mOldid, mNewid, mOldRev,
432 mNewRev, mOldPage, mNewPage, mOldContent, mNewContent, mRevisionsLoaded,
433 mTextLoaded and mCacheHit is deprecated. Use getOldid() / getNewid() /
434 getOldRevision() / getNewRevision() for the first four (note that the
435 revision ones return a RevisionRecord, not a Revision), do your own lookup
436 for page/content.
437 * The $wgExternalDiffEngine value 'wikidiff2' is deprecated. To use wikidiff2
438 just enable the PHP extension, and it will be autodetected.
439 * (T194731) DifferenceEngine properties mOldContent and mNewContent and methods
440 setContent(), generateContentDiffBody(), generateTextDiffBody() and textDiff()
441 are deprecated. To interact with a single slot, use a SlotDiffRenderer (and
442 subclass it to customize diff rendering); to diff custom (e.g. unsaved)
443 content, use setRevisions(). Subclassing DifferenceEngine should only be done
444 to customize page-level diff properties (such as the navigation header).
445 * The wfUseMW function, soft-deprecated in 1.26, is now hard deprecated.
446 * All MagicWord static methods are now deprecated. Use the MagicWordFactory
447 methods instead.
448 * PasswordFactory::init is deprecated. To get a password factory with the
449 standard configuration, use MediaWikiServices::getPasswordFactory.
450 * $wgContLang is deprecated, use MediaWikiServices::getContentLanguage()
451 instead.
452 * $wgParser is deprecated, use MediaWikiServices::getParser() instead.
453 * wfGetMainCache() is deprecated, use ObjectCache::getLocalClusterInstance()
454 instead.
455 * wfGetCache() is deprecated, use ObjectCache::getInstance() instead.
456 * All SpecialPageFactory static methods are deprecated. Instead, call the
457 methods on a SpecialPageFactory instance, which may be obtained from
458 MediaWikiServices.
459 * mw.user.stickyRandomId was renamed to the more explicit
460 mw.user.getPageviewToken to better capture its function.
461 * Passing Revision objects to ContentHandler::getUndoContent() is deprecated,
462 Content object should be passed instead.
463 * (T197179) Parameters 'notice', 'notice-messages', 'notice-message',
464 previously used by OOUI HTMLForm fields, are now deprecated. Use
465 'help', 'help-message', 'help-messages' instead.
466 * (T197179) HTMLFormField::getNotices() is now deprecated.
467 * The jquery.localize module is now deprecated. Use jquery.i18n instead.
468 * The SecondaryDataUpdates hook was deprecated in favor of RevisionDataUpdates,
469 or overriding ContentHandler::getSecondaryDataUpdates (T194038).
470 * The WikiPageDeletionUpdates hook was deprecated in favor of
471 PageDeletionDataUpdates, or overriding ContentHandler::getDeletionDataUpdates
472 (T194038).
473 * Content::getSecondaryDataUpdates has been deprecated in favor of
474 ContentHandler::getSecondaryDataUpdates() for overriding by extensions
475 (T194038).
476 Application logic should call WikiPage::doSecondaryDataUpdates() (T194037).
477 * Content::getDeletionUpdates has been deprecated in favor of
478 ContentHandler::getDeletionUpdates() for overriding by extensions (T194038).
479 Application logic should call WikiPage::doSecondaryDataUpdates() (T194037).
480 * (T198214) Old Tidy-related configuration settings, which were soft-deprecated
481 in MediaWiki 1.26, have now been hard deprecated. This affects $wgUseTidy,
482 $wgTidyBin, $wgTidyConf, $wgTidyOpts, $wgTidyInternal, and $wgDebugTidy. Use
483 $wgTidyConfig instead.
484 * All Tidy configurations other than Remex have been hard deprecated;
485 future parsers will not emit compatible output for these configurations.
486 * (T198214) OutputPage::addWikiText(), OutputPage::addWikiTextWithTitle(),
487 and OutputPage::addWikiTextTitle() have been deprecated, since they
488 can result in untidy output. In addition OutputPage::addWikiTextTidy()
489 and OutputPage::addWikiTextTitleTidy() was deprecated to make naming new
490 methods consistent. Use OutputPage::addWikiTextAsInterface() or
491 OutputPage::addWikiTextAsContent() instead, which ensures the output is
492 tidy and clarifies whether content-language specific postprocessing should
493 be done on the text.
494 * QuickTemplate::msgHtml() and BaseTemplate::msgHtml() have been deprecated
495 as they promote bad practises. I18n messages should always be properly
496 escaped.
497 * Skin::getDynamicStylesheetQuery() has been deprecated. It always
498 returns action=raw&ctype=text/css which callers should use directly.
499 * Class LegacyFormatter is deprecated.
500 * Use of CommentStore::insertWithTempTable() with 'img_description' is
501 deprecated. Use CommentStore::insert() instead.
502 * Language::setCode is deprecated as public function. Use Language::factory
503 to create a new Language object with a different language code.
504 * Several classes have been moved from the MediaWiki\Storage\ namespace to the
505 MediaWiki\Revision\ namespace. The old class names are aliased for
506 compatibility, but are deprecated. Classes are IncompleteRevisionException,
507 MutableRevisionRecord, MutableRevisionSlots, RevisionAccessException,
508 RevisionArchiveRecord, RevisionFactory, RevisionLookup, RevisionRecord,
509 RevisionSlots, RevisionStore, RevisionStoreRecord, SlotRecord, and
510 SuppressedDataException.
511
512 === Other changes in 1.32 ===
513 * (T198811) The following tables have had their UNIQUE indexes turned into
514 proper PRIMARY KEYs for increased maintainability: interwiki, page_props,
515 protected_titles and site_identifiers.
516 * OOUI HTMLForm will now display help text inline after the input field,
517 rather than in a popup. Previous behavior can be restored by using
518 `'help-inline' => false`.
519 * The archive table's ar_rev_id field is now unique.
520 * Special:BotPasswords now requires reauthentication.
521 * (T174023) Multi-Content Revision (MCR) capabilities were introduced into the
522 storage layer and have basic support for display. No user interface exists
523 yet for creating or managing content in slots beides the main slot. See
524 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multi-Content_Revisions> for more
525 information.
526 * The image_comment_temp database table is merged into the image table and
527 deprecated. Since access should be mediated by the CommentStore class, this
528 change shouldn't affect external code.
529 * (T206147) Database::close() will no longer commit any open transactions.
530
531 == Compatibility ==
532 MediaWiki 1.32 requires PHP 7.0.0 or later. Although HHVM 3.18.5 or later is
533 supported, it is generally advised to use PHP 7.0.0 or later for long term
534 support.
535
536 MySQL/MariaDB is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used,
537 but support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for
538 Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
539
540 The supported versions are:
541
542 * MySQL 5.5.8 or later
543 * PostgreSQL 9.2 or later
544 * SQLite 3.3.7 or later
545 * Oracle 9.0.1 or later
546 * Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (9.00.1399)
547
548 == Upgrading ==
549 1.32 has several database changes since 1.31, and will not work without schema
550 updates. Note that due to changes to some very large tables like the revision
551 table, the schema update may take quite long (minutes on a medium sized site,
552 many hours on a large site).
553
554 Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
555
556 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions, including
557 important information when upgrading from versions prior to 1.11.
558
559 For notes on 1.31.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
560
561 == Online documentation ==
562 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is available on
563 MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except
564 for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain):
565
566 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Documentation
567
568 == Mailing list ==
569 A mailing list is available for MediaWiki user support and discussion:
570
571 https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
572
573 A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
574
575 https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
576
577 It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
578 going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
579
580 == IRC help ==
581 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net.