exceptions, largely so the API can handle them more sensibly.
* Blocks created automatically by MediaWiki, such as for configured proxies or
dnsbls, are now indicated as such and use a new i18n message when displayed.
+* Added new $wgHTTPImportTimeout setting. Sets timeout for
+ downloading the XML dump during a transwiki import in seconds.
=== External library changes in 1.29 ===
==== Removed and replaced external libraries ====
=== Bug fixes in 1.29 ===
+* (T62604) Core parser functions returning a number now format the number according
+ to the page content language, not wiki content language.
=== Action API changes in 1.29 ===
* Submitting sensitive authentication request parameters to action=clientlogin,
regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
changes to languages because of Phabricator reports.
+* Based as always on linguistic studies on intelligibility and language
+ knowledge by geography, language fallbacks have been expanded. When a
+ translation is missing in the user's preferred interface language, the
+ corresponding translation for the fallback language will be used instead.
+ English will only be used as last resort when there are no translations.
+ Some configurations (such as date formats and gender namespaces) have also
+ been updated when using the fallback language's configuration was inadequate.
+ The new or reinstated language fallbacks are (after cs ↔ sk in 1.28):
+ hsb ↔ dsb, io → eo, mdf → ru, pnt → el, roa-tara → it.
+
==== No fallback for Ukrainian ====
* (T39314) The fallback from Ukrainian to Russian was removed. The Ukrainian
language will now use the default fallback language: English. When a translation
* User::getPassword() (deprecated in 1.27) was removed.
* User::getTemporaryPassword() (deprecated in 1.27) was removed.
* User::isPasswordReminderThrottled() (deprecated in 1.27) was removed.
+* FSRepo (deprecated in 1.19) was removed.
+* WebRequest::checkSessionCookie() (deprecated in 1.27) was removed. Use
+\MediaWiki\Session\SessionManager::singleton()->getPersistedSessionId() instead.
+* Class ImageGallery (deprecated in 1.22) was removed.
+ Use ImageGalleryBase::factory instead.
+* Title::moveNoAuth() (deprecated in 1.25) was removed. Use MovePage class instead.
+* Hook UnknownAction (deprecated in 1.19) was actually deprecated (it will now emit warnings).
+ Create a subclass of Action, and add it to $wgActions instead.
+* WikiRevision:getText() (deprecated since 1.21) is no longer marked deprecated.
== Compatibility ==