IAlex has uploaded a new change for review. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/97100
Change subject: Sync RELEASE-NOTES-1.22 between master and REL1_22 ...................................................................... Sync RELEASE-NOTES-1.22 between master and REL1_22 Part I: master Change-Id: I6551517e1b18919156561f351ba0f493a4d30e75 --- M RELEASE-NOTES-1.22 1 file changed, 124 insertions(+), 114 deletions(-) git pull ssh://gerrit.wikimedia.org:29418/mediawiki/core refs/changes/00/97100/1 diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.22 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.22 index 333696b..dad2438 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.22 +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.22 @@ -8,63 +8,71 @@ MediaWiki 1.22 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in production. -=== Configuration changes in 1.22 === -* $wgRedirectScript was removed. It was unused. -* Removed $wgLocalMessageCacheSerialized, it is now always true. -* $wgVectorUseIconWatch is now enabled by default. -* $wgCascadingRestrictionLevels was added. -* ftps, ssh, sftp, xmpp, sip, sips, tel, sms, bitcoin, magnet, urn, and geo - have been whitelisted inside of $wgUrlProtocols. -* $wgDocType and $wgDTD have been removed and are no longer used for the DOCTYPE. -* $wgHtml5 is no longer used by core. Setting it to false will no longer disable HTML5. - It is still set to true for extension compatibility but doing so in extensions is deprecated. -* $wgXhtmlDefaultNamespace is no longer used by core. Setting it will no longer change the - xmlns used by MediaWiki. Reliance on this variable by extensions is deprecated. -* $wgHandheldStyle was removed. -* $wgHandheldForIPhone was removed. -* $wgJsMimeType is no longer used by core. Most usage has been removed since - HTML output is now exclusively HTML5. -* $wgDBOracleDRCP added. True enables persistent connection with DRCP on Oracle. -* $wgLogAutopatrol added to allow disabling logging of autopatrol edits in the logging table. - default for $wgLogAutopatrol is true. -* The 'edit' right no longer allows for editing a user's own CSS and JS. -* New rights 'editmyusercss', 'editmyuserjs', 'viewmywatchlist', - 'editmywatchlist', 'viewmyprivateinfo', 'editmyprivateinfo', and - 'editmyoptions' restrict actions that were formerly allowed by default. They - have been added to the default for $wgGroupPermissions['*']. -* The 'editprotected' right no longer allows bypassing of all page protection - restrictions. Any group using it for this purpose will now need to have all - the individual rights listed in $wgRestrictionTypes for the same effect. -* The 'protect' and 'autoconfirmed' rights are no longer used for the default - page protection levels. The rights 'editprotected' and 'editsemiprotected' - are now used for this purpose instead. -* (bug 40866) wgOldChangeTagsIndex removed. -* $wgNoFollowDomainExceptions now only matches entire domains. For example, - an entry for 'bar.com' will still match 'foo.bar.com' but not 'foobar.com'. -* $wgCopyUploadTimeout and $wgCopyUploadAsyncTimeout added to change the timeout times for - fetching the file during upload by url. -* New key added to $wgGalleryOptions - $wgGalleryOptions['mode'] to set - default gallery mode. -* New hook 'GalleryGetModes' to allow extensions to make new gallery modes. -* The checkbox for staying in HTTPS displayed on the login form when $wgSecureLogin is - enabled has been removed. Instead, whether the user stays in HTTPS will be determined - based on the user's preferences, and whether they came from HTTPS or not. -* $wgRC2UDPAddress, $wgRC2UDPInterwikiPrefix, $wgRC2UDPOmitBots, $wgRC2UDPPort, - and $wgRC2UDPPrefix configuration options have been deprecated in favor of a - $wgRCFeeds configuration array. $wgRCFeeds makes both the format and - destination of recent change notifications customizable, and allows for - multiple destinations to be specified. -* (bug 53862) portal-url, currentevents-url and helppage have been removed from the - default Sidebar. -* The 'vector-simplesearch' preference is now enabled by default. Previously - it was only enabled if the Vector extension was installed. -* The precise format of metric datagrams produced by the UDP profiler and stats counter - may now be specified as $wgUDPProfilerFormatString and $wgStatsFormatString, - respectively. -* (bug 54597) $wgBlockOpenProxies, $wgProxyPorts, $wgProxyScriptPath, and - $wgProxyMemcExpiry have been removed, along with the open proxy scanner - script they were added for. -* Default value of $wgMaxShellMemory has been tripled (it's now 300 MB). +* Breaking Changes in 1.22 +* New features in 1.22 +* Configuration changes in 1.22 +* Bug fixes in 1.22 +* API changes in 1.22 +* Languages updated in 1.22 +* Other changes in 1.22 + +=== Breaking Changes in 1.22 === +* BREAKING CHANGE: (bug 41729) Display editsection links next to headings. Also + change their class name from .editsection to .mw-editsection and place them at + the end of the heading element instead of the beginning. Client-side code and + screen-scrapers will have to be adjusted to handle both cases (old HTML will + still be visible on cached page renders until they are purged); extensions + using the DoEditSectionLink or EditSectionLink hooks might need adjustments as + well. +* (bug 55818) BREAKING CHANGE: Removed undocumented 'Debug' hook in wfDebug. + This resolves an infinite loop when using $wgDebugFunctionEntry = true. +* BREAKING CHANGE: action=parse no longer returns all langlinks for the page + with prop=langlinks by default. The new effectivelanglinks parameter will + request that the LanguageLinks hook be called to determine the effective + language links. +* BREAKING CHANGE: list=allpages, list=langbacklinks, and prop=langlinks do not + apply the new LanguageLinks hook, and thus only consider language links + stored in the database. +* BREAKING CHANGE: Implementation of MediaWiki's JS and JSON value encoding + has changed: +** MediaWiki no longer supports PHP installations in which the native JSON + extension is missing or disabled. +** XmlJsCode objects can no longer be nested inside objects or arrays. + (For Xml::encodeJsCall(), this individually applies to each argument.) +** The sets of characters escaped by default, along with the precise escape + sequences used, have changed (except for the Xml::escapeJsString() + function, which is now deprecated). +* BREAKING CHANGE: The Services_JSON class has been removed. If necessary, + be sure to upgrade affected extensions at the same time (e.g. Collection). +* BREAKING CHANGE: Legacy skins Simple, MySkin, Chick, Standard and Nostalgia + were all removed. (Nostalgia was moved to an extension.) The SkinLegacy and + LegacyTemplate classes that supported them were removed as well and are now a + part of the Nostalgia extension. +* BREAKING CHANGE: The "ExternalAuth" authentication subsystem was removed, along + with its associated globals of $wgExternalAuthType, $wgExternalAuthConf, + $wgAutocreatePolicy and $wgAllowPrefChange. Affected users are encouraged to + use AuthPlugin for external authentication/authorization needs. +* BREAKING CHANGE: mw.util.tooltipAccessKeyRegexp: The match group for the + accesskey character is now $6 instead of $5. +* BREAKING CHANGE: meta keywords are no longer supported. A <meta name="keywords" + will no longer be output and OutputPage::addKeyword no longer exists. +* BREAKING CHANGE: The EditSectionLink hook was removed after being + deprecated since MediaWiki 1.14. Use DoEditSectionLink instead. +* (bug 50310) BREAKING CHANGE: wikibits: Drop support for mwCustomEditButtons. + It defaults to an empty array and emits mw.log.warn when accessed. +* BREAKING CHANGE: Special:Disambiguations has been removed from MediaWiki core. + Functions related to disambiguation pages are now handled by the Disambiguator + extension (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Disambiguator) (bug + 35981). +* BREAKING CHANGE: The 'mediawiki.legacy.wikiprintable' module has been removed. + The skins/common/wikiprintable.css file no longer exists. Return value of + Skin#commonPrintStylesheet is ignored. Please use the 'mediawiki.legacy.commonPrint' + module instead or base your skin on SkinTemplate. +* BREAKING CHANGE: The module 'mediawiki.legacy.IEFixes' has been removed as it was + unused. The file skins/common/IEFixes.js remains but is only used by wikibits. + The file never contained any re-usable components. To use it in a skin, load + 'mediawiki.legacy.wikibits' (which IEFixes depends on) and that will import + IEFixes automatically if user agent conditions are met. === New features in 1.22 === * You can now install extensions using Composer. @@ -101,13 +109,6 @@ another portlet will work as expected. * (bug 6747) {{ROOTPAGENAME}} introduced, contains the name of the topmost page without namespace. -* BREAKING CHANGE: (bug 41729) Display editsection links next to headings. Also - change their class name from .editsection to .mw-editsection and place them at - the end of the heading element instead of the beginning. Client-side code and - screen-scrapers will have to be adjusted to handle both cases (old HTML will - still be visible on cached page renders until they are purged); extensions - using the DoEditSectionLink or EditSectionLink hooks might need adjustments as - well. * (bug 45535) introduced the new 'LanguageLinks' hook for manipulating the language links associated with a page before display. * Chosen (http://harvesthq.github.io/chosen/) was added as module 'jquery.chosen' @@ -266,6 +267,64 @@ prefix. Also fixed PHPUnit test suite when using a MySQL backend containing views. +=== Configuration changes in 1.22 === +* $wgRedirectScript was removed. It was unused. +* Removed $wgLocalMessageCacheSerialized, it is now always true. +* $wgVectorUseIconWatch is now enabled by default. +* $wgCascadingRestrictionLevels was added. +* ftps, ssh, sftp, xmpp, sip, sips, tel, sms, bitcoin, magnet, urn, and geo + have been whitelisted inside of $wgUrlProtocols. +* $wgDocType and $wgDTD have been removed and are no longer used for the DOCTYPE. +* $wgHtml5 is no longer used by core. Setting it to false will no longer disable HTML5. + It is still set to true for extension compatibility but doing so in extensions is deprecated. +* $wgXhtmlDefaultNamespace is no longer used by core. Setting it will no longer change the + xmlns used by MediaWiki. Reliance on this variable by extensions is deprecated. +* $wgHandheldStyle was removed. +* $wgHandheldForIPhone was removed. +* $wgJsMimeType is no longer used by core. Most usage has been removed since + HTML output is now exclusively HTML5. +* $wgDBOracleDRCP added. True enables persistent connection with DRCP on Oracle. +* $wgLogAutopatrol added to allow disabling logging of autopatrol edits in the logging table. + default for $wgLogAutopatrol is true. +* The 'edit' right no longer allows for editing a user's own CSS and JS. +* New rights 'editmyusercss', 'editmyuserjs', 'viewmywatchlist', + 'editmywatchlist', 'viewmyprivateinfo', 'editmyprivateinfo', and + 'editmyoptions' restrict actions that were formerly allowed by default. They + have been added to the default for $wgGroupPermissions['*']. +* The 'editprotected' right no longer allows bypassing of all page protection + restrictions. Any group using it for this purpose will now need to have all + the individual rights listed in $wgRestrictionTypes for the same effect. +* The 'protect' and 'autoconfirmed' rights are no longer used for the default + page protection levels. The rights 'editprotected' and 'editsemiprotected' + are now used for this purpose instead. +* (bug 40866) wgOldChangeTagsIndex removed. +* $wgNoFollowDomainExceptions now only matches entire domains. For example, + an entry for 'bar.com' will still match 'foo.bar.com' but not 'foobar.com'. +* $wgCopyUploadTimeout and $wgCopyUploadAsyncTimeout added to change the timeout times for + fetching the file during upload by url. +* New key added to $wgGalleryOptions - $wgGalleryOptions['mode'] to set + default gallery mode. +* New hook 'GalleryGetModes' to allow extensions to make new gallery modes. +* The checkbox for staying in HTTPS displayed on the login form when $wgSecureLogin is + enabled has been removed. Instead, whether the user stays in HTTPS will be determined + based on the user's preferences, and whether they came from HTTPS or not. +* $wgRC2UDPAddress, $wgRC2UDPInterwikiPrefix, $wgRC2UDPOmitBots, $wgRC2UDPPort, + and $wgRC2UDPPrefix configuration options have been deprecated in favor of a + $wgRCFeeds configuration array. $wgRCFeeds makes both the format and + destination of recent change notifications customizable, and allows for + multiple destinations to be specified. +* (bug 53862) portal-url, currentevents-url and helppage have been removed from the + default Sidebar. +* The 'vector-simplesearch' preference is now enabled by default. Previously + it was only enabled if the Vector extension was installed. +* The precise format of metric datagrams produced by the UDP profiler and stats counter + may now be specified as $wgUDPProfilerFormatString and $wgStatsFormatString, + respectively. +* (bug 54597) $wgBlockOpenProxies, $wgProxyPorts, $wgProxyScriptPath, and + $wgProxyMemcExpiry have been removed, along with the open proxy scanner + script they were added for. +* Default value of $wgMaxShellMemory has been tripled (it's now 300 MB). + === Bug fixes in 1.22 === * (bug 47271) $wgContentHandlerUseDB should be set to false during the upgrade * Disable Special:PasswordReset when $wgEnableEmail is false. Previously one @@ -351,8 +410,6 @@ * (bug 47191) Fixed "Column 'si_title' cannot be part of FULLTEXT index" MySQL error when installing using the binary character set option. * (bug 45288) Support mysqli PHP extension -* (bug 55818) BREAKING CHANGE: Removed undocumented 'Debug' hook in wfDebug. - This resolves an infinite loop when using $wgDebugFunctionEntry = true. * (bug 56707) Correct tooltip of "Next n results" on query special pages. * (bug 56770) mw.util.addPortletLink: Check length before access array index. @@ -373,13 +430,6 @@ * action=opensearch no longer silently ignores the format parameter. * action=opensearch now supports format=jsonfm. * list=usercontribs&ucprop=ids will now include the parent revision id. -* BREAKING CHANGE: action=parse no longer returns all langlinks for the page - with prop=langlinks by default. The new effectivelanglinks parameter will - request that the LanguageLinks hook be called to determine the effective - language links. -* BREAKING CHANGE: list=allpages, list=langbacklinks, and prop=langlinks do not - apply the new LanguageLinks hook, and thus only consider language links - stored in the database. * (bug 47219) Allow specifying change type of Wikipedia feed items * prop=imageinfo now allows setting iiurlheight without setting iiurlwidth * prop=info now adds the content model and page language of the title. @@ -417,7 +467,7 @@ file repositories, and related ForeignAPIRepo methods getInfo and getApiUrl. * The new query module list=allfileusages to enumerate file usages was added. -=== Languages updated in 1.22=== +=== Languages updated in 1.22 === MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as @@ -427,38 +477,17 @@ * (bug 46751) Made Buryat (Russia) (буряад) (bxr) fallback to Russian. === Other changes in 1.22 === -* BREAKING CHANGE: Implementation of MediaWiki's JS and JSON value encoding - has changed: -** MediaWiki no longer supports PHP installations in which the native JSON - extension is missing or disabled. -** XmlJsCode objects can no longer be nested inside objects or arrays. - (For Xml::encodeJsCall(), this individually applies to each argument.) -** The sets of characters escaped by default, along with the precise escape - sequences used, have changed (except for the Xml::escapeJsString() - function, which is now deprecated). -* BREAKING CHANGE: The Services_JSON class has been removed. If necessary, - be sure to upgrade affected extensions at the same time (e.g. Collection). * redirect.php was removed. It was unused. * ClickTracking integration was dropped from the mediaWiki.user.bucket JavaScript function. The 'tracked' option is now ignored. -* BREAKING CHANGE: Legacy skins Simple, MySkin, Chick, Standard and Nostalgia - were all removed. (Nostalgia was moved to an extension.) The SkinLegacy and - LegacyTemplate classes that supported them were removed as well and are now a - part of the Nostalgia extension. * Event namespace used by jquery.makeCollapsible has been changed from 'mw-collapse' to 'mw-collapsible' for consistency with the module name. -* BREAKING CHANGE: The "ExternalAuth" authentication subsystem was removed, along - with its associated globals of $wgExternalAuthType, $wgExternalAuthConf, - $wgAutocreatePolicy and $wgAllowPrefChange. Affected users are encouraged to - use AuthPlugin for external authentication/authorization needs. * The Quickbar feature of the legacy skin model and the last remnants of it throughout the code base have been removed. * Externaledit/externaldiff preference was removed. Very few users used this feature, and improper configuration can actually prevent a user from editing * Calling Linker methods using a skin will now output deprecation warnings. * (bug 46680) "Return to" links are no longer tagged with rel="next". -* BREAKING CHANGE: mw.util.tooltipAccessKeyRegexp: The match group for the - accesskey character is now $6 instead of $5. * HipHop compiler (hphpc) support was removed. HipHop VM support (hhvm) was added. * A new Special:Redirect page was added, providing lookup by revision ID, @@ -476,8 +505,6 @@ * (bug 40785) mediawiki.legacy.ajax has been marked as deprecated. The following properties now emit mw.log.warn when accessed: sajax_debug, sajax_init_object, sajax_do_call and wfSupportsAjax. -* BREAKING CHANGE: meta keywords are no longer supported. A <meta name="keywords" - will no longer be output and OutputPage::addKeyword no longer exists. * Methods Title::userCanEditCssSubpage and Title::userCanEditJsSubpage, deprecated since 1.19, have been removed. * (bug 50134) Hook functions are no longer required to return a value. When a @@ -485,8 +512,6 @@ processing continues. To abort the hook, a hook function must return an explicit, boolean false or a string error message. Other falsey values are tantamount to a 'return true' in earlier versions of MediaWiki. -* BREAKING CHANGE: The EditSectionLink hook was removed after being - deprecated since MediaWiki 1.14. Use DoEditSectionLink instead. * (bug 48256) The 'editsection-brackets' optional message was removed. Section edit links' brackets can now be customized using CSS by styling span.mw-editsection-bracket. @@ -506,16 +531,6 @@ * SpecialPrefixindex methods namespacePrefixForm() and showPrefixChunk() have been made protected. They were accepting form variance arguments, this is now using properties in the SpecialPrefixindex class. -* (bug 50310) BREAKING CHANGE: wikibits: Drop support for mwCustomEditButtons. - It defaults to an empty array and emits mw.log.warn when accessed. -* BREAKING CHANGE: Special:Disambiguations has been removed from MediaWiki core. - Functions related to disambiguation pages are now handled by the Disambiguator - extension (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Disambiguator) (bug - 35981). -* BREAKING CHANGE: The 'mediawiki.legacy.wikiprintable' module has been removed. - The skins/common/wikiprintable.css file no longer exists. Return value of - Skin#commonPrintStylesheet is ignored. Please use the 'mediawiki.legacy.commonPrint' - module instead or base your skin on SkinTemplate. * (bug 49629) The hook ExtractThumbParamaters has been deprecated in favour of media handler overriding MediaHandler::parseParamString. * (bug 46512) The collapsibleNav feature from the Vector extension has been moved @@ -526,11 +541,6 @@ object instead of a boolean. * Information boxes (CSS classes errorbox, warningbox, successbox) have been made more subtle. -* BREAKING CHANGE: The module 'mediawiki.legacy.IEFixes' has been removed as it was - unused. The file skins/common/IEFixes.js remains but is only used by wikibits. - The file never contained any re-usable components. To use it in a skin, load - 'mediawiki.legacy.wikibits' (which IEFixes depends on) and that will import - IEFixes automatically if user agent conditions are met. * Code specific to the Math extension was marked as deprecated. * mediawiki.util: mw.util.wikiGetlink has been renamed to getUrl. (The old name still works, but is deprecated.) -- To view, visit https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/97100 To unsubscribe, visit https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/settings Gerrit-MessageType: newchange Gerrit-Change-Id: I6551517e1b18919156561f351ba0f493a4d30e75 Gerrit-PatchSet: 1 Gerrit-Project: mediawiki/core Gerrit-Branch: master Gerrit-Owner: IAlex <coderev...@emsenhuber.ch> _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-commits mailing list MediaWiki-commits@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-commits
