=== Configuration changes for system administrators in 1.34 ===
+In an effort to enforce best practices for passwords, MediaWiki will now warn
+users, and suggest that they change their password, if it is in the list of
+100,000 commonly used passwords that are considered bad passwords. If you want
+to disable this for your users, please add the following to your local settings:
+
+$wgPasswordPolicy['policies']['default']['PasswordNotInLargeBlacklist'] = false;
+
==== New configuration ====
* $wgAllowExternalReqID (T201409) - This configuration setting controls whether
Mediawiki accepts the request ID set by the incoming request via the
which was deprecated in 1.30, no longer works. Instead, $wgProxyList should be
an array with IP addresses as the values, or a string path to a file
containing one IP address per line.
+* $wgCookieSetOnAutoblock and $wgCookieSetOnIpBlock are now enabled by default.
* …
==== Removed configuration ====
password setups and deprecated since 1.24, is now removed.
* $wgDBOracleDRCP - If you must use persistent connections, set DBO_PERSISTENT
in the 'flags' field for servers in $wgDBServers (or $wgLBFactoryConf).
+* $wgMemCachedDebug - Set the cache "debug" field in $wgObjectCaches instead.
=== New user-facing features in 1.34 ===
* Special:Mute has been added as a quick way for users to block unwanted emails
==== Changed external libraries ====
* Updated Mustache from 1.0.0 to v3.0.1.
-* Updated OOUI from v0.31.3 to v0.33.4.
+* Updated OOUI from v0.31.3 to v0.34.0.
+* Updated OOjs from v2.2.2 to v3.0.0.
* Updated composer/semver from 1.4.2 to 1.5.0.
* Updated composer/spdx-licenses from 1.4.0 to 1.5.1 (dev-only).
* Updated mediawiki/codesniffer from 25.0.0 to 26.0.0 (dev-only).
== Compatibility ==
MediaWiki 1.34 requires PHP 7.0.13 or later. Although HHVM 3.18.5 or later is
supported, it is generally advised to use PHP 7.0.13 or later for long term
-support.
+support. It also requires the following PHP extensions:
+
+* ctype
+* dom
+* fileinfo
+* iconv
+* json
+* mbstring
+* xml
MySQL/MariaDB is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used,
but support for them is somewhat less mature.