sitewide CSS/JS (and editing other users' CSS/JS). No other group has
'editsitecss', 'editusercss', 'editsitejs' or 'edituserjs' by default.
* A new grant group, 'editsiteconfig', is added for granting the above rights.
+* The $wgPasswordSenderName setting, ignored since 1.23 by MediaWiki and almost
+ all extensions, is no longer set at all. Instead, you can modify the system
+ message `emailsender`.
=== New features in 1.32 ===
* (T112474) Generalized the ResourceLoader mechanism for overriding modules
* Updated mediawiki/mediawiki-codesniffer from v20.0.0 to v21.0.0.
* Updated composer/spdx-licenses from 1.3.0 to 1.4.0.
* Updated jquery.i18n from 1.0.4 to 1.0.5.
+* Updated wikimedia/timestamp from 1.0.0 to 2.0.0.
+* Updated wikimedia/remex-html from 1.0.3 to 2.0.0.
==== New external libraries ====
-* Added wikimedia/xmp-reader 0.5.1
+* Added wikimedia/xmp-reader 0.6.0
* …
==== Removed and replaced external libraries ====
* (T195940) Added language support for Batak Mandailing (btm).
* (T137491) Added language support for Standard Moroccan Amazigh (zgh).
* (T198132) Added language support for Manipuri (mni).
+* (T201276) Added language support for Western Armenian (hyw).
+* (T201583) Added language support for Mon (mnw).
=== Breaking changes in 1.32 ===
* $wgRequestTime, deprecated in 1.25, was removed. Use
* The mediawiki.widgets.visibleByteLimit module alias, deprecated in 1.32, was
removed. Use mediawiki.widgets.visibleLengthLimit instead.
* The jquery.farbtastic module, unused since 1.18, was removed.
+* The 'jquery.expandableField' module, unused since 1.22, was removed.
* (T181318) The $wgStyleVersion setting and its appendage to various script and
style URLs in OutputPage, deprecated in 1.31, was removed.
* The hooks 'PreferencesFormPreSave' and 'PreferencesGetLegend' may provide
* (T140807) The wgResourceLoaderLESSImportPaths configuration option was removed
from ResourceLoader. Instead, use `@import` statements in LESS to import
files directly from nearby directories within the same project.
+* (T140804) The wgResourceLoaderLESSVars configuration option, deprecated
+ since 1.30, was removed. Instead, to expose variables from PHP to LESS, use
+ the ResourceLoaderModule::getLessVars() method.
* The protected methods PHPSessionHandler::returnSuccess() and returnFailure(),
only needed for PHP5 compatibility, have been removed. It now uses the boolean
values `true` and `false` respectively.
* MagicWord::clearCache() has been removed. Instead, create a new
MagicWordFactory, such as by calling
resetServiceForTesting( 'MagicWordFactory' ) on a MediaWikiServices.
+* mw.util.init() has been removed. This function is not needed anymore and was
+ a no-op function since 1.30.
+* SpecialPageFactory::resetList() is a no-op. Call overrideMwServices()
+ instead.
=== Deprecations in 1.32 ===
* Use of a StartProfiler.php file is deprecated in favour of placing
methods instead.
* PasswordFactory::init is deprecated. To get a password factory with the
standard configuration, use MediaWikiServices::getPasswordFactory.
+* $wgContLang is deprecated, use MediaWikiServices::getContentLanguage()
+ instead.
+* $wgParser is deprecated, use MediaWikiServices::getParser() instead.
+* wfGetMainCache() is deprecated, use ObjectCache::getLocalClusterInstance()
+ instead.
+* wfGetCache() is deprecated, use ObjectCache::getInstance() instead.
+* All SpecialPageFactory static methods are deprecated. Instead, call the
+ methods on a SpecialPageFactory instance, which may be obtained from
+ MediaWikiServices.
=== Other changes in 1.32 ===
* (T198811) The following tables have had their UNIQUE indexes turned into
proper PRIMARY KEYs for increased maintainability: interwiki, page_props,
protected_titles and site_identifiers.
+* OOUI HTMLForm will now display help text inline after the input field,
+ rather than in a popup. Previous behavior can be restored by using
+ `'help-inline' => false`.
* …
== Compatibility ==