From aa01aa994c7d4777ad9881a4fa04200dba5e4703 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kunal Mehta Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2018 15:09:05 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Sync RELEASE-NOTES-1.31 with REL1_31' Follows-up 0e7353831e9, which accidentally removed the pre-upgrade section. Follows-up Ia4b29611ccee4acac which was landed in master before the branch cut. Change-Id: I2a38e79b8dbe173ff99797a87b7aa5193a03212e --- RELEASE-NOTES-1.31 | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.31 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.31 index fbe69eb6fa..d369ac6ea0 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.31 +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.31 @@ -5,6 +5,14 @@ THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET MediaWiki 1.31 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in production. +=== Important pre-upgrade notes for 1.31 === +* If you're using MySQL, SQLite, or MSSQL, are not using update.php to apply + schema changes, and cannot have downtime to run migrateArchiveText.php and + apply patch-drop-ar_text.sql manually, you'll have to apply a default value + to the ar_text and ar_flags columns of the archive table or make those + columns nullable before upgrading to MediaWiki 1.31. + maintenance/archives/patch-nullable-ar_text.sql shows how to do this for MySQL. + === Configuration changes in 1.31 === * $wgEnableAPI and $wgEnableWriteAPI are now deprecated and will be removed in a future version. The API is now considered to be stable, secure and @@ -43,6 +51,7 @@ production. framework that it enables. Some extensions mistakenly used this to check whether any AJAX functionality at all should be enabled, further making this problematic to retain. +* Add default edit rate limit of 90 edits/minute for all users. * $wgDBmysql5 is now deprecated, and will be removed in a future version. It has been marked as experimental ever since it was introduced. @@ -139,6 +148,7 @@ production. * (T2087, T10897, T87753, T174639) Whitespace created by category and language links is now stripped rather than leaving blank lines in odd places. * (T3780) Uploads with UTF-8 names now work on PHP7.1+ on Windows servers. +* (T186565) Fix PHP Notice from `ob_end_flush()` in `FileRepo::streamFile()`. === Action API changes in 1.31 === * (T185058) The 'name' value to tgprop for action=query&list=tags has been -- 2.20.1