X-Git-Url: https://git.cyclocoop.org/%27.WWW_URL.%27admin/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=RELEASE-NOTES-1.29;h=3af1654c3fc2e9ff7e9e0a9f5d2745e7ae169267;hb=61f9600b937998db252bbec69341ac8df06a669c;hp=4e6396b31ff1eaefaf1190464e47a6439523fe9b;hpb=9cd9f2f0dd01c31c744bbc4e6600d0d66e109caf;p=lhc%2Fweb%2Fwiklou.git diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.29 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.29 index 4e6396b31f..cbfd124b99 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.29 +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.29 @@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ MediaWiki 1.29 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in production. === Configuration changes in 1.29 === -* Default cookie expiration time has been reduced to 30 days. Login cookie expiration time is - kept at 180 days. +* Default cookie expiration time has been reduced to 30 days. Login cookie + expiration time is kept at 180 days. * A new configuration variable has been added: $wgCookieSetOnAutoblock. This determines whether to set a cookie when a user is autoblocked. Doing so means that a blocked user, even after logging out and moving to a new IP address, @@ -22,11 +22,34 @@ production. code for ApiBase::parseMsg() will no longer work. * ApiBase::$messageMap is no longer public. Code attempting to access it will result in a PHP fatal error. -* $wgUserEmailUseReplyTo is now true by default to work around restrictive DMARC policies. +* $wgUserEmailUseReplyTo is now true by default to work around restrictive DMARC + policies. +* Subpages are now enabled by default in the Template namespace. Set + $wgNamespacesWithSubpages[NS_TEMPLATE] to false to keep the old behavior. +* $wgRunJobsAsync is now false by default (T142751). This change only affects + wikis with $wgJobRunRate > 0. === New features in 1.29 === -* (T5233) A cookie can now be set when a user is autoblocked, to track that user if - they move to a new IP address. This is disabled by default. +* (T5233) A cookie can now be set when a user is autoblocked, to track that user + if they move to a new IP address. This is disabled by default. +* Added ILocalizedException interface to standardize the use of localized + 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. +* Parser limit report is now available in machine-readable format to JavaScript + via mw.config.get('wgPageParseReport'). +* Added $wgSoftBlockRanges, to allow for automatically blocking anonymous edits + from certain IP ranges (e.g. private IPs). +* (T59603) Added new magic word {{PAGELANGUAGE}} which returns the language code + of the page being parsed. +* Added JavaScript that provides as-you-type suggestions for reason + on the block, delete and protect forms. +* HTML5 form validation attributes will no longer be suppressed. Originally + browsers had poor support for them, but modern browsers handle them fine. + This might affect some forms that used them and only worked because the + attributes were not actually being set. === External library changes in 1.29 === @@ -38,6 +61,8 @@ production. ==== 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, @@ -50,6 +75,8 @@ production. using the new 'errorformat', 'errorlang', and 'errorsuselocal' parameters. * API error codes may have changed. Most notably, errors from modules using parameter prefixes (e.g. all query submodules) will no longer be prefixed. +* ApiPageSet-using modules will report the 'invalidreason' using the specified + 'errorformat'. * action=emailuser may return a "Warnings" status, and now returns 'warnings' and 'errors' subelements (as applicable) instead of 'message'. * action=imagerotate returns an 'errors' subelement rather than 'errormessage'. @@ -65,6 +92,8 @@ production. 'stasherrors' rather than a 'stashfailed' text string. * action=watch reports 'errors' and 'warnings' instead of a single 'error', and no longer returns a 'message' on success. +* Added action=validatepassword to validate passwords for the account creation + and password change forms. === Action API internal changes in 1.29 === * New methods were added to ApiBase to handle errors and warnings using i18n @@ -95,6 +124,16 @@ MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated 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 @@ -111,14 +150,58 @@ changes to languages because of Phabricator reports. * Xml::escapeJsString() (deprecated in 1.21) was removed. * Article::getText() and Article::prepareTextForEdit() (deprecated in 1.21) were removed. -* Article::getAutosummary() and WikiPage::getAutosummary (deprecated in 1.21) - were removed. -* Hooks ArticleViewCustom, EditPageGetDiffText and ShowRawCssJs (deprecated in 1.21) +* Article::getAutosummary() and WikiPage::getAutosummary() (deprecated in 1.21) were removed. +* Hook ArticleViewCustom (deprecated in 1.21) was removed. Use ArticleContentViewCustom + instead. +* Hooks EditPageGetDiffText and ShowRawCssJs (deprecated in 1.21) were removed. * Class RevisiondeleteAction (deprecated in 1.25) was removed. * WikiPage::prepareTextForEdit() (deprecated in 1.21) was removed. * WikiPage::getText() (deprecated in 1.21) was removed. * Article::fetchContent() (deprecated in 1.21) was removed. +* User::getPassword() (deprecated in 1.27) was removed. +* User::getTemporaryPassword() (deprecated in 1.27) was removed. +* User::isPasswordReminderThrottled() (deprecated in 1.27) was removed. +* Class 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 $wgActions instead. +* WikiRevision::getText() (deprecated since 1.21) is no longer marked deprecated. +* Linker::getInterwikiLinkAttributes() (deprecated since 1.25) was removed. +* Linker::getInternalLinkAttributes() (deprecated since 1.25) was removed. +* Linker::getInternalLinkAttributesObj() (deprecated since 1.25) was removed. +* Linker::getLinkAttributesInternal() (deprecated since 1.25) was removed. +* RedisConnectionPool::handleException (deprecated since 1.23) was removed. +* The static properties mw.Api.errors and mw.Api.warnings, containing incomplete + and outdated lists of errors/warnings returned by the API, are now deprecated. +* wiki.phtml entry point was removed. Refer to index.php instead. If you want "wiki.phtml" + URLs to continue to work, set up redirects. In Apache, this can be done by enabling + mod_rewrite and adding the following rules to your configuration: + + RewriteEngine On + RewriteBase / + RewriteRule ^/w/wiki\.phtml$ /w/index.php [R=301,L] +* Hook ArticleAfterFetchContent (deprecated in 1.21) was removed. + Use ArticleAfterFetchContentObject instead. +* Hook ArticleInsertComplete (deprecated in 1.21) was removed. + Use PageContentInsertComplete instead. +* Hook ArticleSave (deprecated in 1.21) was removed. + Use PageContentSave instead. +* Hook ArticleSaveComplete (deprecated in 1.21) was removed. + Use PageContentSaveComplete instead. +* Hook EditFilterMerged (deprecated in 1.21) was removed. + Use EditFilterMergedContent instead. +* Hook EditPageGetPreviewText (deprecated in 1.21) was removed. + Use EditPageGetPreviewContent instead. +* Hook TitleIsCssOrJsPage (deprecated in 1.21) was removed. + Use ContentHandlerDefaultModelFor instead. +* Hook TitleIsWikitextPage (deprecated in 1.21) was removed. + Use ContentHandlerDefaultModelFor instead. +* Article::getContent (deprecated in 1.21) was removed. == Compatibility ==