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-Security reminder: If you have PHP's register_globals option set, you must
-turn it off. MediaWiki will not work with it enabled.
-
-== MediaWiki 1.25.3 ==
-
-This is a security and maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.25 branch.
-
-=== Changes since 1.25.2 ===
-
-* (T98975) Fix having multiple callbacks for a single hook.
-* (T107632) maintenance/refreshLinks.php did not always remove all links
- pointing to nonexistent pages.
-* (T104142) $wgEmergencyContact and $wgPasswordSender now use their default
- value if set to an empty string.
-* (T62174) Provide fallbacks for use of mb_convert_encoding() in
- HtmlFormatter. It was causing an error when accessing the api help page
- if the mbstring PHP extension was not installed.
-* (T105896) Confirmation emails would sometimes contain invalid codes.
-* (T105597) Fixed edit stash inclusion queries.
-* (T91850) SECURITY: Add throttle check in ApiUpload and SpecialUpload
-* (T91203, T91205) SECURITY: API: Improve validation in chunked uploading
-* (T95589) SECURITY: RevDel: Check all revisions for suppression, not just the
- first
-* (T108616) SECURITY: Avoid exposure of local path in PNG thumbnails
-
-== MediaWiki 1.25.2 ==
-
-This is a security and maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.25 branch.
-
-=== Changes since 1.25.1 ===
-
-* (T94116) SECURITY: Compare API watchlist token in constant time
-* (T97391) SECURITY: Escape error message strings in thumb.php
-* (T106893) SECURITY: Don't leak autoblocked IP addresses on
- Special:DeletedContributions
-* (T102562) Fix InstantCommons parameters to handle the new HTTPS-only
- policy of Wikimedia Commons.
-* (T100767) Setting a configuration setting for skin or extension to
- false in LocalSettings.php was not working.
-* (T100635) API action=opensearch json output no longer breaks when
- $wgDebugToolbar is enabled.
-* (T102522) Using an extension.json or skin.json file which has
- a "manifest_version" property for 1.26 compatability will no longer
- trigger warnings.
-* (T86156) Running updateSearchIndex.php will not throw an error as
- page_restrictions has been added to the locked table list.
-* Special:Version would throw notices if using SVN due to an incorrectly
- named variable. Add an additional check that an index is defined.
-
-== MediaWiki 1.25.1 ==
-
-This is a bug fix release of the MediaWiki 1.25 branch.
-
-=== Changes since 1.25 ===
-* (T100351) Fix syntax errors in extension.json of ConfirmEdit extension
-
-== MediaWiki 1.25 ==
-
-MediaWiki 1.25.x is the stable branch and is recommended for use in production.
-
-=== Configuration changes in 1.25 ===
-* $wgPageShowWatchingUsers was removed.
-* $wgLocalVirtualHosts has been added to replace $wgConf->localVHosts.
-* $wgAntiLockFlags was removed.
-* $wgJavaScriptTestConfig was removed.
-* Edit tokens returned from User::getEditToken may change on every call. Token
- validity must be checked by passing the user-supplied token to
- User::matchEditToken rather than by testing for equality with a
- newly-generated token.
-* (T74951) The UserGetLanguageObject hook may be passed any IContextSource
- for its $context parameter. Formerly it was documented as receiving a
- RequestContext specifically.
-* Profiling was restructured and $wgProfiler now requires an 'output' parameter.
- See StartProfiler.sample for details.
-* $wgMangleFlashPolicy was added to make MediaWiki's mangling of anything that
- might be a flash policy directive configurable.
-* ApiOpenSearch now supports XML output. The OpenSearchXml extension should no
- longer be used. If extracts and page images are desired, the TextExtracts and
- PageImages extensions are required.
-* $wgOpenSearchTemplate is deprecated in favor of $wgOpenSearchTemplates.
-* Edits are now prepared via AJAX as users type edit summaries. This behavior
- can be disabled via $wgAjaxEditStash.
-* (T46740) The temporary option $wgIncludejQueryMigrate was removed, along
- with the jQuery Migrate library, as indicated when this option was provided in
- MediaWiki 1.24.
-* ProfilerStandard and ProfilerSimpleTrace were removed. Make sure that any
- StartProfiler.php config is updated to reflect this. Xhprof is available
- for zend/hhvm. Also, for hhvm, one can consider using its xenon profiler.
-* Default value of $wgSVGConverters['rsvg'] now uses the 'rsvg-convert' binary
- rather than 'rsvg'.
-* Default value of $wgSVGConverters['ImageMagick'] now uses transparent
- background with white fallback color, rather than just white background.
- * MediaWikiBagOStuff class removed, make sure any object cache config
- uses SqlBagOStuff instead.
-* The 'daemonized' flag must be set to true in $wgJobTypeConf for any redis
- job queues. This means that mediawiki/services/jobrunner service has to
- be installed and running for any such queues to work.
-* $wgAutopromoteOnce no longer supports the 'view' event. For keeping some
- compatibility, any 'view' event triggers will still trigger on 'edit'.
-* $wgExtensionDirectory was added for when your extensions directory is somewhere
- other than $IP/extensions (as $wgStyleDirectory does with the skins directory).
-
-=== New features in 1.25 ===
-* (T64861) Updated plural rules to CLDR 26. Includes incompatible changes
- for plural forms in Russian, Prussian, Tagalog, Manx and several languages
- that fall back to Russian.
-* (T60139) ResourceLoaderFileModule now supports language fallback
- for 'languageScripts'.
-* Added a new hook, "ContentAlterParserOutput", to allow extensions to modify the
- parser output for a content object before links update.
-* (T37785) Enhanced recent changes and extended watchlist are now default.
- Documentation: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Enhanced_recent_changes
- and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgDefaultUserOptions.
-* (T69341) SVG images will no longer be base64-encoded when being embedded
- in CSS. This results in slight size increase before gzip compression (due to
- percent-encoding), but up to 20% decrease after it.
-* Update jStorage to v0.4.12.
-* MediaWiki now natively supports page status indicators: icons (or short text
- snippets) usually displayed in the top-right corner of the page. They have
- been in use on Wikipedia for a long time, implemented using templates and CSS
- absolute positioning.
- - Basic wikitext syntax: <indicator name="foo">[[File:Foo.svg|20px]]</indicator>
- - Usage instructions: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Page_status_indicators
- - Adjusting custom skins to support indicators:
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skinning#Page_status_indicators
-* Edit tokens may now be time-limited: passing a maximum age to
- User::matchEditToken will reject any older tokens.
-* The debug logging internals have been overhauled, and are now using the
- PSR-3 interfaces.
-* Update CSSJanus to v1.1.1.
-* Update lessphp to v0.5.0.
-* Added a hook, "ApiOpenSearchSuggest", to allow extensions to provide extracts
- and images for ApiOpenSearch output. The semantics are identical to the
- "OpenSearchXml" hook provided by the OpenSearchXml extension.
-* PrefixSearchBackend hook now has an $offset parameter. Combined with $limit,
- this allows for pagination of prefix results. Extensions using this hook
- should implement supporting behavior. Not doing so can result in undefined
- behavior from API clients trying to continue through prefix results.
-* Update jQuery from v1.11.1 to v1.11.3.
-* External libraries installed via composer will now be displayed
- on Special:Version in their own section. Extensions or skins that are
- installed via composer will not be shown in this section as it is assumed
- they will add the proper credits to the skins or extensions section. They
- can also be accessed through the API via the new siprop=libraries to
- ApiQuerySiteInfo.
-* Update QUnit from v1.14.0 to v1.16.0.
-* Update Moment.js from v2.8.3 to v2.8.4.
-* Special:Tags now allows for manipulating the list of user-modifiable change
- tags.
-* Added 'managetags' user right and 'ChangeTagCanCreate', 'ChangeTagCanDelete',
- and 'ChangeTagCanCreate' hooks to allow for managing user-modifiable change
- tags.
-* Added 'ChangeTagsListActive' hook, to separate the concepts of "defined" and
- "active" formerly conflated by the 'ListDefinedTags' hook.
-* Added TemplateParser class that provides a server-side interface to cachable
- dynamically-compiled Mustache templates (currently uses lightncandy library).
-* Clickable anchors for each section heading in the content are now generated
- and appear in the gutter on hovering over the heading.
-* Added 'CategoryViewer::doCategoryQuery' and 'CategoryViewer::generateLink' hooks
- to allow extensions to override how links to pages are rendered within NS_CATEGORY
-* (T19665) Special:WantedPages only lists page which having at least one red link
- pointing to it.
-* New hooks 'ApiMain::moduleManager' and 'ApiQuery::moduleManager', can be
- used for conditional registration of API modules.
-* New hook 'EnhancedChangesList::getLogText' to alter, remove or add to the
- links of a group of changes in EnhancedChangesList.
-* A full interface for StatsD metric reporting has been added to the context
- interface, reachable via IContextSource::getStats().
-* Move the jQuery Client library from being mastered in MediaWiki as v0.1.0 to a
- proper, published library, which is now tagged as v1.0.0.
-* A new message (defaulting to blank), 'editnotice-notext', can be shown to users
- when they are editing if no edit notices apply to the page being edited.
-* (T94536) You can now make the sitenotice appear to logged-in users only by
- editing MediaWiki:Anonnotice and replacing its content with "". Setting it to
- "-" (default) will continue disable it and fallback to MediaWiki:Sitenotice.
-* Modifying the tagging of a revision or log entry is now available via
- Special:EditTags, generally accessed via the revision-deletion-like interface
- on history pages and Special:Log is likely to be more useful.
-* Added 'applychangetags' and 'changetags' user rights.
-* (T35235) LogFormatter subclasses are now responsible for formatting the
- parameters for API log event output. Extensions should implement the new
- getParametersForApi() method in their log formatters.
-
-==== External libraries ====
-* MediaWiki now requires certain external libraries to be installed. In the past
- these were bundled inside the Git repository of MediaWiki core, but now they
- need to be installed separately. For users using the tarball, this will be taken
- care of and no action will be required. Users using Git will either need to use
- composer to fetch dependencies or use the mediawiki/vendor repository which includes
- all dependencies for MediaWiki core and ones used in Wikimedia deployment. Detailed
- instructions can be found at:
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_Git#Fetch_external_libraries
-* The following libraries are now required:
-** psr/log
- This library provides the interfaces set by the PSR-3 standard (http://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-3/)
- which are used by MediaWiki internally via the
- MediaWiki\Logger\LoggerFactory class.
- See the structured logging RfC (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Structured_logging)
- for more background information.
-** cssjanus/cssjanus
- This library was formerly bundled with MediaWiki core and has been removed.
- It automatically flips CSS for RTL support.
-** leafo/lessphp
- This library was formerly bundled with MediaWiki core and has been removed.
- It compiles LESS files into CSS.
-** wikimedia/cdb
- This library was formerly a part of MediaWiki core, and has been moved into a separate library.
- It provides CDB functions which are used in the Interwiki and Localization caches.
- More information about the library can be found at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CDB.
-** liuggio/statsd-php-client
- This library provides a StatsD client API for logging application metrics to a remote server.
-
-=== Bug fixes in 1.25 ===
-* (T73003) No additional code will be generated to try to load CSS-embedded
- SVG images in Internet Explorer 6 and 7, as they don't support them anyway.
-* (T69021) On Special:BookSources, corrected validation of ISBNs (both
- 10- and 13-digit forms) containing "X".
-* Page moving was refactored into a MovePage class. As part of that:
-** The AbortMove hook was removed.
-** MovePageIsValidMove is for extensions to specify whether a page
- cannot be moved for technical reasons, and should not be overridden.
-** MovePageCheckPermissions is for checking whether the given user is
- allowed to make the move.
-** Title::moveNoAuth() was deprecated. Use the MovePage class instead.
-** Title::moveTo() was deprecated. Use the MovePage class instead.
-** Title::isValidMoveOperation() broken down into MovePage::isValidMove()
- and MovePage::checkPermissions().
-* (T18530) Multiple autocomments are now formatted in an edit summary.
-* (T70361) Autocomments containing "/*" are parsed correctly.
-* The Special:WhatLinksHere page linked from 'Number of redirects to this page'
- on action=info about a file page does not list file links anymore.
-* (T78637) Search bar is not autofocused unless it is empty so that proper scrolling using arrow keys is possible.
-* (T50853) Database::makeList() modified to handle 'NULL' separately when building IN clause
-* (T85192) Captcha position modified in Usercreate template. As a result:
-** extrafields parameter added to Usercreate.php to insert additional data
-** 'extend' method added to QuickTemplate to append additional values to any field of data array
-* (T86974) Several Title methods now load from the database when necessary
- (instead of returning incorrect results) even when the page ID is known.
-* (T74070) Duplicate search for archived files on file upload now omits the extension.
- This requires the fa_sha1 field being populated.
-* Removed rel="archives" from the "View history" link, as it did not pass
- HTML validation.
-* $wgUseTidy is now set when parserTests are run with the tidy option to match
- output on wiki.
-* (T37472) update.php will purge ResourceLoader cache unless --nopurge is passed to it.
-* (T72109) mediawiki.language should respect $wgTranslateNumerals in convertNumber().
-
-=== Action API changes in 1.25 ===
-* (T67403) XML tag highlighting is now only performed for formats
- "xmlfm" and "wddxfm".
-* action=paraminfo supports generalized submodules (modules=query+value),
- querymodules and formatmodules are deprecated
-* action=paraminfo no longer outputs descriptions and other help text by
- default. If needed, it may be requested using the new 'helpformat' parameter.
-* action=help has been completely rewritten, and outputs help in HTML
- rather than plain text.
-* Hitting api.php without specifying an action now displays only the help for
- the main module, with links to submodule help.
-* API help is no longer displayed on errors.
-* 'uselang' is now a recognized API parameter; "uselang=user" may be used to
- explicitly select the language from the current user's preferences, and
- "uselang=content" may be used to select the wiki's content language.
-* Default output format for the API is now jsonfm.
-* Simplified continuation will return a "batchcomplete" property in the result
- when a batch of pages is complete.
-* Pretty-printed HTML output now has nicer formatting and (if available)
- better syntax highlighting.
-* Deprecated list=deletedrevs in favor of newly-added prop=deletedrevisions and
- list=alldeletedrevisions.
-* prop=revisions will gracefully continue when given too many revids or titles,
- rather than just ignoring the extras.
-* prop=revisions will no longer die if rvcontentformat doesn't match a
- revision's content model; it will instead warn and omit the content.
-* If the user has the 'deletedhistory' right, action=query's revids parameter
- will now recognize deleted revids.
-* prop=revisions may be used as a generator, generating revids.
-* (T68776) format=json results will no longer be corrupted when
- $wgMangleFlashPolicy is in effect. format=php results will cleanly return an
- error instead of returning invalid serialized data.
-* Generators may now return data for the generated pages when used with
- action=query.
-* Query page data for generator=search and generator=prefixsearch will now
- include an "index" field, which may be used by the client for sorting the
- search results.
-* ApiOpenSearch now supports XML output.
-* ApiOpenSearch will now output descriptions and URLs as array indexes 2 and 3
- in JSON format.
-* (T76051) list=tags will now continue correctly.
-* (T76052) list=tags can now indicate whether a tag is defined.
-* (T75522) list=prefixsearch now supports continuation
-* (T78737) action=expandtemplates can now return page properties.
-* (T78690) list=allimages now accepts multiple pipe-separated values
- for the 'aimime' parameter.
-* prop=info with inprop=protections will now return applicable protection types
- with the 'restrictiontypes' key.
-* (T85417) When resolving redirects, ApiPageSet will now add the targets of
- interwiki redirects to the list of interwiki titles.
-* (T85417) When outputting the list of redirect titles, a 'tointerwiki'
- property (like the existing 'tofragment' property) will be set.
-* Added action=managetags to allow for managing the list of
- user-modifiable change tags. Actually modifying the tagging of a revision or
- log entry is not implemented yet.
-* list=tags has additional properties to indicate 'active' status and tag
- sources.
-* siprop=libraries was added to ApiQuerySiteInfo to list installed external libraries.
-* (T88010) Added action=checktoken, to test a CSRF token's validity.
-* (T88010) Added intestactions to prop=info, to allow querying of
- Title::userCan() via the API.
-* Default type param for query list=watchlist and list=recentchanges has
- been changed from all types (e.g. including 'external') to 'edit|new|log'.
-* Added formatversion to format=json. Still "experimental" as further changes
- to the output formatting might still be made.
-* (T73020) Log event details are now always under a 'params' subkey for
- list=logevents, and a 'logparams' subkey for list=watchlist and
- list=recentchanges.
-* Log event details are changing formatting:
- * block events now report flags as an array rather than as a comma-separated
- list.
- * patrol events now report the 'auto' flag as a boolean (absent/empty string
- for BC formats) rather than as an integer.
- * rights events now report the old and new group lists as arrays rather than
- as comma-separated lists.
- * merge events use new-style formatting.
- * delete/event and delete/revision events use new-style formatting.
-* The root node and various other nodes will now always be an object in formats
- such as json that distinguish between arrays and objects.
- * Except for action=opensearch where the spec requires an array.
-
-=== Action API internal changes in 1.25 ===
-* ApiHelp has been rewritten to support i18n and paginated HTML output.
- Most existing modules should continue working without changes, but should do
- the following:
- * Add an i18n message "apihelp-{$moduleName}-description" to replace getDescription().
- * Add i18n messages "apihelp-{$moduleName}-param-{$param}" for each parameter
- to replace getParamDescription(). If necessary, the settings array returned
- by getParams() can use the new ApiBase::PARAM_HELP_MSG key to override the
- message.
- * Implement getExamplesMessages() to replace getExamples().
-* Modules with submodules (like action=query) must have their submodules
- override ApiBase::getParent() to return the correct parent object.
-* The 'APIGetDescription' and 'APIGetParamDescription' hooks are deprecated,
- and will have no effect for modules using i18n messages. Use
- 'APIGetDescriptionMessages' and 'APIGetParamDescriptionMessages' instead.
-* Api formatters will no longer be asked to display the help screen on errors.
-* ApiMain::getCredits() was removed. The credits are available in the
- 'api-credits' i18n message.
-* ApiFormatBase has been changed to support i18n and syntax highlighting via
- extensions with the new 'ApiFormatHighlight' hook. Core syntax highlighting
- has been removed.
-* ApiFormatBase now always buffers. Output is done when
- ApiFormatBase::closePrinter is called.
-* Much of the logic in ApiQueryRevisions has been split into ApiQueryRevisionsBase.
-* The 'revids' parameter supplied by ApiPageSet will now count deleted
- revisions as "good" if the user has the 'deletedhistory' right. New methods
- ApiPageSet::getLiveRevisionIDs() and ApiPageSet::getDeletedRevisionIDs() are
- provided to access just the live or just the deleted revids.
-* Added ApiPageSet::setGeneratorData() and ApiPageSet::populateGeneratorData()
- to allow generators to include data in the action=query result.
-* New hooks 'ApiMain::moduleManager' and 'ApiQuery::moduleManager', can be
- used for conditional registration of API modules.
-* Added ApiBase::lacksSameOriginSecurity() to allow modules to easily check if
- the current request was sent with the 'callback' parameter (or any future
- method that breaks the same-origin policy).
-* Profiling methods in ApiBase are deprecated and no longer need to be called.
-* ApiResult was greatly overhauled. See inline documentation for details.
-* ApiResult will automatically convert objects to strings or arrays (depending
- on whether a __toString() method exists on the object), and will refuse to
- add unsupported value types.
- * An informal interface, ApiSerializable, exists to override the default
- object conversion.
-* ApiResult/ApiFormatBase "raw mode" is deprecated.
-* ApiFormatXml now assumes defaults and so on instead of throwing errors when
- metadata isn't set.
-* (T35235) LogFormatter subclasses are now responsible for formatting log event
- parameters for the API.
-* Many modules have changed result data formats. While this shouldn't affect
- clients not using the experimental formatversion=2, code using
- ApiResult::getResultData() without the transformations for backwards
- compatibility may need updating, as will code that wasn't following the old
- conventions for API boolean output.
-* The following methods have been deprecated and may be removed in a future
- release:
- * ApiBase::getDescription
- * ApiBase::getParamDescription
- * ApiBase::getExamples
- * ApiBase::makeHelpMsg
- * ApiBase::makeHelpArrayToString
- * ApiBase::makeHelpMsgParameters
- * ApiBase::getModuleProfileName
- * ApiBase::profileIn
- * ApiBase::profileOut
- * ApiBase::safeProfileOut
- * ApiBase::getProfileTime
- * ApiBase::profileDBIn
- * ApiBase::profileDBOut
- * ApiBase::getProfileDBTime
- * ApiBase::getResultData
- * ApiFormatBase::setUnescapeAmps
- * ApiFormatBase::getWantsHelp
- * ApiFormatBase::setHelp
- * ApiFormatBase::formatHTML
- * ApiFormatBase::setBufferResult
- * ApiFormatBase::getDescription
- * ApiFormatBase::getNeedsRawData
- * ApiMain::setHelp
- * ApiMain::reallyMakeHelpMsg
- * ApiMain::makeHelpMsgHeader
- * ApiResult::setRawMode
- * ApiResult::getIsRawMode
- * ApiResult::getData
- * ApiResult::setElement
- * ApiResult::setContent
- * ApiResult::setIndexedTagName_recursive
- * ApiResult::setIndexedTagName_internal
- * ApiResult::setParsedLimit
- * ApiResult::beginContinuation
- * ApiResult::setContinueParam
- * ApiResult::setGeneratorContinueParam
- * ApiResult::endContinuation
- * ApiResult::size
- * ApiResult::convertStatusToArray
- * ApiQueryImageInfo::getPropertyDescriptions
- * ApiQueryLogEvents::addLogParams
-* The following classes have been deprecated and may be removed in a future
- release:
- * ApiQueryDeletedrevs
-
-=== Languages updated in 1.25 ===
-
-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 Bugzilla reports.
-
-* Languages added:
-** awa (अवधी / Awadhi), thanks to translator 1AnuraagPandey;
-** bgn (بلوچی رخشانی / Western Balochi), thanks to translators
- Baloch Afghanistan, Ibrahim khashrowdi and Rachitrali;
-** ses (Koyraboro Senni), thanks to translator Songhay.
-* (T66440) Kazakh (kk) wikis should no longer forcefully reset the user's
- interface language to kk where unexpected.
-* The Chinese conversion table was substantially updated to fix a lot of
- bugs and ensure better reading experience for different variants.
-
-=== Other changes in 1.25 ===
-* (T45591) Links to MediaWiki.org translatable help were added to indicators,
- mostly in special pages. Local custom target titles can be placed in the
- relevant '(namespace-X|action name|special page name)-helppage' system
- message. Extensions can use the addHelpLink() function to do the same.
-* The skin autodiscovery mechanism, deprecated in MediaWiki 1.23, has been
- removed. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skin_autodiscovery for
- migration guide for creators and users of custom skins that relied on it.
-* Javascript variables 'wgFileCanRotate' and 'wgFileExtensions' now only
- available on Special:Upload.
-* (T58257) Set site logo from mediawiki.skinning.interface module instead of
- inline styles in the HTML.
-* Removed ApiQueryUsers::getAutoGroups(). (deprecated since 1.20)
-* Removed XmlDumpWriter::schemaVersion(). (deprecated since 1.20)
-* Removed LogEventsList::getDisplayTitle(). (deprecated since 1.20)
-* Removed Preferences::trySetUserEmail(). (deprecated since 1.20)
-* Removed mw.user.name() and mw.user.anonymous() methods. (deprecated since 1.20)
-* Removed 'ok' and 'err' parameters in the mediawiki.api modules. (deprecated
- since 1.20)
-* Removed 'async' parameter from the mw.Api#getCategories() method. (deprecated
- since 1.20)
-* Removed 'jquery.json' module. (deprecated since 1.24)
- Use the 'json' module and global JSON object instead.
-* Deprecated OutputPage::readOnlyPage() and OutputPage::rateLimited().
- Also, the former will now throw an MWException if called with one or more
- arguments.
-* Removed hitcounters and associated code.
-* The "temp" zone of the upload respository is now considered private. If it
- already exists (such as under the images/ directory), please make sure that
- the directory is not web readable (e.g. via a .htaccess file).
-* BREAKING CHANGE: In the XML dump format used by Special:Export and
- dumpBackup.php, the <model> and <format> tags now apprear before the <text>
- tag, instead of after the <text> and <sha1> tags.
- The new schema version is 0.10, the new schema URI is:
- https://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.10.xsd
-* MWFunction::call() and MWFunction::callArray() were removed, having being
- deprecated in 1.22.
-* Deprecated the getInternalLinkAttributes, getInternalLinkAttributesObj,
- and getInternalLinkAttributes methods in Linker, and removed
- getExternalLinkAttributes method, which was deprecated in MediaWiki 1.18.
-* Removed Sites class, which was deprecated in 1.21 and replaced by SiteSQLStore.
-* Added wgRelevantArticleId to the client-side config, for use on special pages.
-* Deprecated the TitleIsCssOrJsPage hook. Superseded by the
- ContentHandlerDefaultModelFor hook since MediaWiki 1.21.
-* Deprecated the TitleIsWikitextPage hook. Superseded by the
- ContentHandlerDefaultModelFor hook since MediaWiki 1.21.
-* Changed parsing of variables in schema (.sql) files:
-** The substituted values are no longer parsed. (Formerly, several passes
- were made for each variable, so depending on the order in which variables
- were defined, variables might have been found inside encoded values. This
- is no longer the case.)
-** Variables are no longer string encoded when the /*$var*/ syntax is used.
- If string encoding is necessary, use the '{$var}' syntax instead.
-** Variable names must only consist of one or more of the characters
- "A-Za-z0-9_".
-** In source text of the form '{$A}'{$B}' or `{$A}`{$B}`, where variable A
- does not exist yet variable B does, the latter may not be replaced.
- However, this difference is unlikely to arise in practice.
-* (T67278) RFC, PMID, and ISBN "magic links" must be surrounded by non-word
- characters on both sides.
-* The FormatAutocomments hook will now receive $pre and $post as booleans,
- rather than as strings that must be prepended or appended to $comment.
-* (T30950, T31025) RFC, PMID, and ISBN "magic links" can no longer contain
- newlines; but they can contain &nbsp; and other non-newline whitespace.
-* The 'mediawiki.action.edit' ResourceLoader module no longer generates the edit
- toolbar, which has been moved to a separate 'mediawiki.toolbar' module. If you
- relied on this behavior, update your scripts' dependencies.
-* HTMLForm's 'vform' display style has been separated to a subclass. Therefore:
- * HTMLForm::isVForm() is now deprecated.
- * You can no longer do this:
- $form = new HTMLForm( … );
- $form->setDisplayFormat( 'vform' ); // throws exception
- Instead, do this:
- $form = HTMLForm::factory( 'vform', … );
-* Deprecated Revision methods getRawUser(), getRawUserText() and getRawComment().
-* BREAKING CHANGE: mediawiki.user.generateRandomSessionId:
- The alphabet of the prior string returned was A-Za-z0-9 and now it is 0-9A-F
-* (T87504) Avoid serving SVG background-images in CSS for Opera 12, which
- renders them incorrectly when combined with border-radius or background-size.
-* Removed maintenance script dumpSisterSites.php.
-* DatabaseBase class constructors must be called using the array argument style.
- Ideally, DatabaseBase:factory() should be used instead in most cases.
-* Deprecated ParserOutput::addSecondaryDataUpdate and ParserOutput::getSecondaryDataUpdates.
- This is a hard deprecation, with getSecondaryDataUpdates returning an empty array and
- addSecondaryDataUpdate throwing an exception. These functions will be removed in 1.26,
- since they interfere with caching of ParserOutput objects.
-* Introduced new hook 'SecondaryDataUpdates' that allows extensions to inject custom updates.
-* Introduced new hook 'OpportunisticLinksUpdate' that allows extensions to perform
- updates when a page is re-rendered.
-* EditPage::attemptSave has been modified not to call handleStatus itself and
- instead just returns the Status object. Extension calling it should be aware of
- this.
-* Removed class DBObject. (unused since 1.10)
-* wfDiff() is deprecated.
-* The -m (maximum replication lag) option of refreshLinks.php was removed.
- It had no effect since MediaWiki 1.18 and should be removed from any cron
- jobs or similar scripts you may have set up.
-* (T85864) The following messages no longer support raw html: redirectto,
- thisisdeleted, viewdeleted, editlink, retrievedfrom, version-poweredby-others,
- retrievedfrom, thisisdeleted, viewsourcelink, lastmodifiedat, laggedslavemode,
- protect-summary-cascade
-* All BloomCache related code has been removed. This was largely experimental.
-* $wgResourceModuleSkinStyles no longer supports per-module local or remote paths. They
- can only be set for the entire skin.
-* Removed global function swap(). (deprecated since 1.24)
-* Deprecated the ".php5" file extension entry points and the $wgScriptExtension
- configuration variable. Refer to the ".php" files instead. If you want
- ".php5" 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 ^(.*)\.php5 $1.php [R=301,L]
-
-* The global importScriptURI and importStylesheetURI functions, as well as the
- loadedScripts object, from wikibits.js (deprecated since 1.17) now emit
- warnings through mw.log.warn when accessed.
-
-== Compatibility ==
-
-MediaWiki 1.25 requires PHP 5.3.3 or later. There is experimental support for
-HHVM 3.3.0.
-
-MySQL 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.
-
-The supported versions are:
-
-* MySQL 5.0.3 or later
-* PostgreSQL 8.3 or later
-* SQLite 3.3.7 or later
-* Oracle 9.0.1 or later
-* Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (9.00.1399)
-
-== Upgrading ==
-
-1.25 has several database changes since 1.24, and will not work without schema
-updates. Note that due to changes to some very large tables like the revision
-table, the schema update may take quite long (minutes on a medium sized site,
-many hours on a large site).
-
-If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons
-repository, make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise
-due to database schema changes.
-
-If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
-new database fields are filled with data.
-
-If you are upgrading from MediaWiki 1.4.x or earlier, you should upgrade to
-1.5 first. The upgrade script maintenance/upgrade1_5.php has been removed
-with MediaWiki 1.21.
-
-Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
-
-See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions.
-
-For notes on 1.24.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
-
-== Online documentation ==
-
-Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is available on
-MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except
-for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain):
-
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation
-
-== Mailing list ==
-
-A mailing list is available for MediaWiki user support and discussion:
-
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
-
-A low-traffic announcements-only list is also available:
-
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
-
-It's highly recommended that you sign up for one of these lists if you're
-going to run a public MediaWiki, so you can be notified of security fixes.
-
-== IRC help ==
-
-There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net.