* editmyuserjsredirect user right – users without this right now cannot edit JS
redirects in their userspace unless the target of the redirect is also in
their userspace. By default, this right is given to everyone.
+* (T226733) Add rate limiter to Special:ConfirmEmail.
==== Changed configuration ====
* $wgUseCdn, $wgCdnServers, $wgCdnServersNoPurge, and $wgCdnMaxAge – These four
=== New user-facing features in 1.34 ===
* Special:Mute has been added as a quick way for users to block unwanted emails
from other users originating from Special:EmailUser.
+* (T207577) Special:NewSection has been created as a shortcut to creating a new
+ section on a page. When linked to, its subpage is used as the target
+ ([[Special:NewSection/Test]] redirects to creating a new section in "Test").
+ Otherwise, it displays a basic interface to allow the end user to specify
+ the target manually.
=== New developer features in 1.34 ===
* The ImgAuthModifyHeaders hook was added to img_auth.php to allow modification
in JavaScript, use mw.log.deprecate() instead.
* The 'user.groups' module, deprecated in 1.28, was removed.
Use the 'user' module instead.
+* The ResourceLoaderContext::expandModuleNames method, deprecated in 1.33, was
+ removed. Use ResourceLoader::expandModuleNames instead.
* The ability to override User::$mRights has been removed. Use
PermissionManager::addTemporaryUserRights() instead.
* Previously, when iterating ResultWrapper with foreach() or a similar
* Database::getProperty(), deprecated in 1.28, has been removed.
* IDatabase::getWikiId(), deprecated in 1.30, has been removed.
Use IDatabase::getDomainID() instead.
+* (T191231) Support for using Oracle or MSSQL as database backends has been
+ dropped.
+* MessageCache::destroyInstance() has been removed. Instead, call
+ MediaWikiTestCase::resetServices().
+* SearchResult protected field $searchEngine is removed and no longer
+ initialized after calling SearchResult::initFromTitle().
* …
=== Deprecations in 1.34 ===
template option 'searchaction' instead.
* LoadBalancer::haveIndex() and LoadBalancer::isNonZeroLoad() have
been deprecated.
+* FileBackend::getWikiId() has been deprecated.
+ Use FileBackend::getDomainId() instead.
* User::getRights() and User::$mRights have been deprecated. Use
PermissionManager::getUserPermissions() instead.
* The LocalisationCacheRecache hook no longer allows purging of message blobs
* The following public properties on DatabaseBlock are deprecated: $mAuto,
$mParentBlockId. To check for an autoblock use DatabaseBlock::getType; to
check for the parent ID, use DatabaseBlock::getParentBlockId.
+* SearchEngine::userHighlightPrefs() is deprecated, simply stop passing
+ $contextlines and $contextchars to the SearchHighlighter methods, they will
+ use proper defaults defined in SearchHighlighter::DEFAULT_CONTEXT_LINES and
+ DEFAULT_CONTEXT_CHARS.
+* SearchUpdate constructor: passing a string as the title param and or a boolean
+ or a string as the content will produce a deprecation warning.
+* SearchEngine::getTextFromContent() is deprecated, use getTextForSearchIndex()
+ directly from the Content object.
+* SearchEngine::textAlreadyUpdatedForIndex() is deprecated, given the
+ deprecation above this method is no longer needed/called and should not be
+ implemented by SearchEngine implementation.
+* IDatabase::bufferResults() has been deprecated. Use query batching instead.
+* MessageCache::singleton() is deprecated. Use
+ MediaWikiServices::getMessageCache().
+* Constructing MovePage directly is deprecated. Use MovePageFactory.
=== Other changes in 1.34 ===
* …
support.
MySQL/MariaDB is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used,
-but support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for
-Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
+but support for them is somewhat less mature.
The supported versions are:
* MySQL 5.5.8 or later
* PostgreSQL 9.2 or later
* SQLite 3.8.0 or later
-* Oracle 9.0.1 or later
-* Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (9.00.1399)
== Online documentation ==
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