* Introduced $wgVerifyMimeTypeIE to allow disabling the MSIE 6/7 file type
detection heuristic on upload, which is more conservative than the checks
that were changed above.
+* $wgExternalDiffEngine — Setting this to a string value of 'wikidiff',
+ 'wikidiff2', or 'wikidiff3' will no longer work. This legacy behaviour was
+ deprecated in MediaWiki 1.27, 1.32, and 1.27, respectively.
* $wgSkipSkin — Setting this instead of $wgSkipSkins, deprecated in 1.23, is now
hard-deprecated.
* $wgLocalInterwiki — Setting this instead of $wgLocalInterwikis, deprecated in
* (T222388) API modules can now be specified as an ObjectFactory spec,
allowing the construction of modules that require services to be injected
in their constructor.
+* (T117736) The function signature of SpecialContributions::getForm::filters
+ has changed. It now expects definitions of additional filter fields as array
+ rather than string.
=== External library changes in 1.34 ===
* Updated wikimedia/timestamp from 2.2.0 to 3.0.0.
* Updated wikimedia/xmp-reader from 0.6.2 to 0.6.3.
* Updated mediawiki/mediawiki-phan-config from 0.6.0 to 0.6.1 (dev-only).
+* Updated wikimedia/avro from 1.8.0 to 1.9.0 (dev-only).
* …
==== Removed external libraries ====
* User::setNewpassword(), deprecated in 1.27 has been removed.
* The ObjectCache::getMainWANInstance and ObjectCache::getMainStashInstance
functions, deprecated since 1.28, have been removed.
+* Language::$dataCache has been removed (without prior deprecation, for
+ practical reasons). Use MediaWikiServices instead to get a LocalisationCache.
=== Deprecations in 1.34 ===
* The MWNamespace class is deprecated. Use NamespaceInfo.
* Specifying a SpecialPage object for the list of special pages (either through
the SpecialPage_initList hook or by adding to $wgSpecialPages) is now
deprecated.
+* WebInstaller::getInfoBox(), getWarningBox() and getErrorBox() are deprecated.
+ Use Html::errorBox() or Html::warningBox() instead.
* Use of ActorMigration with 'ar_user', 'img_user', 'oi_user', 'fa_user',
'rc_user', 'log_user', and 'ipb_by' is deprecated. Queries should be adjusted
to use the corresponding actor fields directly. Note that use with
$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['blockemail'] = true;
* ApiQueryBase::showHiddenUsersAddBlockInfo() is deprecated. Use
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,
+ isValidCode, isValidBuiltInCode, isKnownLanguageTag, fetchLanguageNames,
+ fetchLanguageName, getFileName, getMessagesFileName, getJsonMessagesFileName.
+ Use the new LanguageNameUtils class instead. (Note that fetchLanguageName(s)
+ are called getLanguageName(s) in the new class.)
=== Other changes in 1.34 ===
+* Added option to specify "Various authors" as author in extension credits using
+ "..." 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.
* …
== Compatibility ==
-MediaWiki 1.34 requires PHP 7.2.0 or later. Although HHVM 3.18.5 or later is
-supported, it is generally advised to use PHP 7.2.0 or later for long term
-support. It also requires the following PHP extensions:
+MediaWiki 1.34 requires PHP 7.2.9 or later, and the following PHP extensions:
* ctype
* dom