* 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 $wgLocalInterwikis, deprecated in
* User::setNewpassword(), deprecated in 1.27 has been removed.
* The ObjectCache::getMainWANInstance and ObjectCache::getMainStashInstance
functions, deprecated since 1.28, have been removed.
+* Language::$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.
$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.
+* Language::getLocalisationCache() is deprecated. Use MediaWikiServices
+ instead.
=== 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 7.2.0 or later, and the following PHP extensions:
* ctype
* dom