was configured with 'any'.
=== New features in 1.31 ===
+* (T76554) User sub-pages named ….json are now protected in the same way that ….js
+ and ….css pages are, so that configuration options can safely be placed there.
* Wikimedia\Rdbms\IDatabase->select() and similar methods now support
joins with parentheses for grouping.
* As a first pass in standardizing dialog boxes across the MediaWiki product,
the SQL query. The ActorMigration class may also be used to get feature-flagged
information needed to access actor-related fields during the migration
period.
+* Added Wikimedia\Rdbms\IDatabase::cancelAtomic(), to roll back an atomic
+ section without having to roll back the whole transaction.
+* Wikimedia\Rdbms\IDatabase::doAtomicSection(), non-native ::insertSelect(),
+ and non-MySQL ::replace() and ::upsert() no longer roll back the whole
+ transaction on failure.
+* (T189785) Added a monthly heartbeat ping to the pingback feature.
=== External library changes in 1.31 ===
* OutputPage::enableSectionEditLinks()
* OutputPage::sectionEditLinksEnabled()
* The public ParserOutput state fields $mTOCEnabled and $mEditSectionTokens are also deprecated.
-* The following methods and constants from the WatchedItem class were deprecated in
- 1.27 have been removed.
+* The following methods and constants from the WatchedItem class, which were deprecated in
+ 1.27, have been removed.
* WatchedItem::getTitle()
* WatchedItem::fromUserTitle()
* WatchedItem::addWatch()
* ::clearCookie()
* ::setExtendedLoginCookie()
Note that User::setCookies() remains, and is not deprecated.
+* Also in User, some auth-related methods which were deprecated in 1.27, have been removed:
+ * ::getEditTokenTimestamp() – use MediaWiki\Session\Token::getTimestamp()
+ * ::getPasswordFactory() – create a PasswordFactory directly
+ * ::passwordChangeInputAttribs()
* The global functions wfProfileIn and wfProfileOut, deprecated in 1.25, have been removed.
* The following methods related to caching of half-parsed HTML were deprecated:
* Parser::serializeHalfParsedText()
* The global function wfOutputHandler() was removed, use the its replacement
MediaWiki\OutputHandler::handle() instead. The global function was only sometimes defined.
Its replacement is always available via the autoloader.
+* ChangeTags::listExtensionActivatedTags and ::listExtensionDefinedTags, deprecated
+ in 1.28, have been removed. Use ::listSoftwareActivatedTags() and
+ ::listSoftwareDefinedTags() instead.
+* Title::getTitleInvalidRegex(), deprecated in 1.25, has been removed. You
+ can use MediaWikiTitleCodec::getTitleInvalidRegex() instead.
+* HTMLForm & VFormHTMLForm::isVForm(), deprecated in 1.25, have been removed.
+* The ProfileSection class, deprecated in 1.25 and unused, has been removed.
== Compatibility ==
MediaWiki 1.31 requires PHP 5.5.9 or later. Although HHVM 3.18.5 or later is supported,
The supported versions are:
* MySQL 5.0.3 or later
-* PostgreSQL 8.3 or later
+* PostgreSQL 9.2 or later
* SQLite 3.3.7 or later
* Oracle 9.0.1 or later
* Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (9.00.1399)