Change notes from older releases. For current info, see RELEASE-NOTES-1.44. = Wikibase 1.42 = == Upgrading notes for 1.42 == Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading! Some specific notes for Wikibase 1.42 upgrades are below: ... For a general manual to upgrade MediaWiki see: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading === Configuration changes for system administrators in 1.42 === ==== New configuration ==== * ... ==== Changed configuration ==== * ... ==== Removed configuration ==== * ... === New user-facing features in 1.42 === * (repo) (T251480) Data values are automatically normalized on save. Built-in normalizations are defined for the commonsMedia data type and the string value type. Custom data and value types can register normalization using the normalizer-factory-callback definition key. * ... === External library changes in 1.42 === ==== New external libraries ==== * ... ==== Changed external libraries ==== * ... ==== Removed external libraries ==== * (T12345) ... === Bug fixes in 1.42 === * (T12345) ... === Action API changes in 1.42 === * (T12345) ... === Languages updated in 1.42 === Wikibase supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as changes to languages because of Phabricator reports. New monolingual support: * (T12345) ... Monolingual entries removed as they are now natively supported by MediaWiki: * (T12345) ... === Breaking changes in 1.42 === * (T263427) The RDF URIs will now always use the the unlocalized name Special:EntityData, not a localized name like e.g. Spezial:Objektdaten. This only affects wikis with a $wgLanguageCode other than "en". * (T12345) ... === Deprecations in 1.42 === * (T12345) ... === Other changes in 1.42 === * (T12345) ... == Online documentation == Installation instructions and FAQ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase Developer documentation of Wikibase 1.42 https://doc.wikimedia.org/Wikibase/REL1_42/ == Mailing list == Discussion regarding the development of Wikidata https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-tech == IRC help == Questions related to wikibase and wikidata can be asked in #wikidata on irc.libera.chat. = Wikibase 1.41 = == Upgrading notes for 1.41 == Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading! Some specific notes for Wikibase 1.41 upgrades are below: * (T333662) The `entity-schema` property data type, which was unintentionally enabled by default for several Wikibase releases despite being disabled as incomplete on Wikidata, has been removed from Wikibase. We expect that no other installations were using it; however, if you need this data type to exist (e.g. if you created any properties with this data type), you can install the EntitySchema extension, which now contains an `entity-schema` data type that is fully compatible with the one previously included in Wikibase. ... For a general manual to upgrade MediaWiki see: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading === Configuration changes for system administrators in 1.41 === ==== New configuration ==== * ... ==== Changed configuration ==== * ... ==== Removed configuration ==== * (T333662) The entitySchemaNamespace repo and client setting has been removed; see the note about the disabled `entity-schema` data type above. * ... === New user-facing features in 1.41 === * ... === External library changes in 1.41 === ==== New external libraries ==== * ... ==== Changed external libraries ==== * ... ==== Removed external libraries ==== * (T12345) ... === Bug fixes in 1.41 === * (T12345) ... === Action API changes in 1.41 === * (T12345) ... === Languages updated in 1.41 === Wikibase supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as changes to languages because of Phabricator reports. New monolingual support: * (T12345) ... Monolingual entries removed as they are now natively supported by MediaWiki: * (T12345) ... === Breaking changes in 1.41 === * (T12345) ... === Deprecations in 1.41 === * (T12345) ... === Other changes in 1.41 === * (T12345) ... == Online documentation == Installation instructions and FAQ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase Developer documentation of Wikibase 1.41 https://doc.wikimedia.org/Wikibase/REL1_41/ == Mailing list == Discussion regarding the development of Wikidata https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-tech == IRC help == Questions related to wikibase and wikidata can be asked in #wikidata on irc.libera.chat. = Wikibase 1.40 = == Upgrading notes for 1.40 == Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading! Some specific notes for Wikibase 1.40 upgrades are below: ... For a general manual to upgrade MediaWiki see: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading === Configuration changes for system administrators in 1.40 === ==== New configuration ==== * ... ==== Changed configuration ==== * ... ==== Removed configuration ==== * ... === New user-facing features in 1.40 === * ... === External library changes in 1.40 === ==== New external libraries ==== * ... ==== Changed external libraries ==== * ... ==== Removed external libraries ==== * (T12345) ... === Bug fixes in 1.40 === * (T12345) ... === Action API changes in 1.40 === * (T12345) ... === Languages updated in 1.40 === Wikibase supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as changes to languages because of Phabricator reports. New monolingual support: * (T12345) ... Monolingual entries removed as they are now natively supported by MediaWiki: * (T12345) ... === Breaking changes in 1.40 === * (T312224) The LanguageFallbackLabelDescriptionLookupFactory service, deprecated in the previous release, has been removed. Use FallbackLabelDescriptionLookupFactory instead (already available in 1.39). * (T12345) ... === Deprecations in 1.40 === * (T12345) ... === Other changes in 1.40 === * (T12345) ... == Online documentation == Installation instructions and FAQ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase Developer documentation of Wikibase 1.40 https://doc.wikimedia.org/Wikibase/REL1_40/ == Mailing list == Discussion regarding the development of Wikidata https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-tech == IRC help == Questions related to wikibase and wikidata can be asked in #wikidata on irc.libera.chat. = Wikibase 1.39 = == Upgrading notes for 1.39 == Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading! Some specific notes for Wikibase 1.39 upgrades are below: ... For a general manual to upgrade MediaWiki see: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading === Configuration changes for system administrators in 1.39 === ==== New configuration ==== * ... ==== Changed configuration ==== * ... ==== Removed configuration ==== * ... === New user-facing features in 1.39 === * ... === External library changes in 1.39 === ==== New external libraries ==== * ... ==== Changed external libraries ==== * ... ==== Removed external libraries ==== * (T12345) ... === Bug fixes in 1.39 === * (T12345) ... === Action API changes in 1.39 === * T104344: The wbsearchentities response has a new `display` field for each result. It may contain a `label` and `description` key. Each of those will contain a `text` and a `language` key with the respective data. The top-level `label`, `description` and `aliases` keys of each result are now considered deprecated and should no longer be used. See also the official [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata-tech@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/3LA6FDOZGSK6HSQY73XCFNT4BTYWOY64/ significant change announcement]. * (T12345) ... === Languages updated in 1.39 === Wikibase supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as changes to languages because of Phabricator reports. New monolingual support: * (T12345) ... Monolingual entries removed as they are now natively supported by MediaWiki: * (T12345) ... === Breaking changes in 1.39 === * (T114577) The maintenance script populateInterwiki.php was removed, use the same script from core. * (T140850) The php entry point were removed, use wfLoadExtension instead. * (T12345) ... === Deprecations in 1.39 === * (T312222) The LanguageFallbackLabelDescriptionLookupFactory service is deprecated. Use the new FallbackLabelDescriptionLookupFactory service instead: it has a very similar interface, but returns lookups that also resolve redirects. * (T12345) ... === Other changes in 1.39 === * (T12345) ... == Online documentation == Installation instructions and FAQ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase Developer documentation of Wikibase 1.39 https://doc.wikimedia.org/Wikibase/REL1_39/ == Mailing list == Discussion regarding the development of Wikidata https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-tech == IRC help == Questions related to wikibase and wikidata can be asked in #wikidata on irc.libera.chat. = Wikibase 1.38 = == Upgrading notes for 1.38 == Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading! Some specific notes for Wikibase 1.38 upgrades are below: Wikibase 1.38 features a new change dispatching scheme, replacing the old one. If you were regularly running the `dispatchChanges.php` and `pruneChanges.php` maintenance scripts, you can stop doing that now (e.g. remove any such cron jobs), they are no longer necessary. For the migration, we suggest the following procedure: - Run `pruneChanges.php --ignore-dispatch --keep-days 30`, to remove very old changes. (“Changes” refers to entries in the Wikibase change dispatching mechanism – your revision history will be kept, of course.) - Set the wiki to read-only mode. - Run `dispatchChanges.php` and wait until there is nothing left to dispatch. (Terminate the script once it says “Idle: No client wiki found in need of dispatching.”) - Run `runJobs.php`, including on any client wikis, to process any dispatched changes. - Run `pruneChanges.php`, to remove changes that are now dispatched. - Update the code of the wiki (and any client wikis) to 1.38. - Perform any regular MediaWiki post-update steps, such as updating Composer dependencies and running `update.php`. - Run `ResubmitChanges.php`, to move remaining changes into the job queue. - Resume automatic job runners, if you have any (now using the new code). For a general manual to upgrade MediaWiki see: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading === Configuration changes for system administrators in 1.38 === ==== New configuration ==== * ... ==== Changed configuration ==== * (client) (T293246) If you configure your own entity sources, and the entity source referred to by the `itemAndPropertySourceName` setting has a string as the `repoDatabase`, then that string must also be a site ID of the repo wiki. (This was true before in some setups, but is more important now.) If you have a single wiki that is both a repo and a client, it’s recommended to set the `repoDatabase` to `false`. * ... ==== Removed configuration ==== * (repo) (T292604) dispatchBatchChunkFactor has been removed. * (repo) (T292604) dispatchDefaultBatchSize has been removed. * (repo) (T292604) dispatchDefaultMaxChunks has been removed. * (repo) (T292604) dispatchDefaultDispatchInterval has been removed. * (repo) (T292604) dispatchDefaultDispatchRandomness has been removed. * (repo) (T292604) dispatchMaxTime has been removed. * (repo) (T292604) dispatchIdleDelay has been removed. * (repo) (T292604) dispatchLagToMaxLagFactor has been removed. * (repo) (T292604) dispatchingLockManager has been removed. * ... === New user-facing features in 1.38 === * ... === External library changes in 1.38 === ==== New external libraries ==== * ... ==== Changed external libraries ==== * ... ==== Removed external libraries ==== * (T12345) ... === Bug fixes in 1.38 === * (T12345) ... === Action API changes in 1.38 === * (T12345) ... === Languages updated in 1.38 === Wikibase supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as changes to languages because of Phabricator reports. New monolingual support: * (T12345) ... Monolingual entries removed as they are now natively supported by MediaWiki: * (T12345) ... === Breaking changes in 1.38 === * (T12345) ... === Deprecations in 1.38 === * (T12345) ... === Other changes in 1.38 === * (T12345) ... == Online documentation == Installation instructions and FAQ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase Developer documentation of Wikibase 1.38 https://doc.wikimedia.org/Wikibase/REL1_38/ == Mailing list == Discussion regarding the development of Wikidata https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-tech == IRC help == Questions related to wikibase and wikidata can be asked in #wikidata on irc.libera.chat. = Wikibase 1.37 = == Upgrading notes for 1.37 == Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading! Some specific notes for Wikibase 1.37 upgrades are below: When upgrading to 1.37 from 1.35 or 1.36 we supply a simple php script for administrators to run before the actual update happens. The script gives recommended settings based on the current configuration. You can download it from https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P16814 and save it in the Wikibase folder of your mediawiki installation. Execute it as a normal maintenance script and replace the legacy repositories configuration with the new entitySources one. ... For a general manual to upgrade MediaWiki see: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading === Configuration changes for system administrators in 1.37 === ==== New configuration ==== * (repo) (T219215) sandboxEntityIds — Entity ids to be used in various live examples. These entities will be affected by changes made through those examples, such as edits made by the API sandbox. ==== Changed configuration ==== * (repo+client) (T257262) The entitySources setting is no longer optional, but required. See the “upgrading notes” section, above, for migration instructions. ==== Removed configuration ==== * (repo) (T285471) foreignRepositories has been removed. * (client) (T285471) repositories has been removed. * (repo+client) (T285472) entityNamespaces has been removed. * (repo+client) (T285473) changesDatabase has been removed. * (client) (T286539) repoNamespaces has been removed. * (client) (T287242) repoDatabase has been removed. * (repo) (T287486) conceptBaseUri has been removed. === New user-facing features in 1.37 === * ... === External library changes in 1.37 === ==== New external libraries ==== * ... ==== Changed external libraries ==== * ... ==== Removed external libraries ==== * (T12345) ... === Bug fixes in 1.37 === * (T12345) ... === Action API changes in 1.37 === * (T12345) ... === Languages updated in 1.37 === Wikibase supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as changes to languages because of Phabricator reports. New monolingual support: * (T12345) ... Monolingual entries removed as they are now natively supported by MediaWiki: * (T12345) ... === Breaking changes in 1.37 === * (T12345) ... === Deprecations in 1.37 === * (T12345) ... === Other changes in 1.37 === * (T272032, T274157) Rate limiting for ID generator is now enforced in all installations. == Online documentation == Installation instructions and FAQ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase Developer documentation of Wikibase 1.37 https://doc.wikimedia.org/Wikibase/REL1_37/ == Mailing list == Discussion regarding the development of Wikidata https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-tech == IRC help == Questions related to wikibase and wikidata can be asked in #wikibase or #wikidata on irc.libera.chat. = Wikibase 1.35 = == Wikibase 1.35.2-wmde.1 == This is a security and maintenance release of the Wikibase 1.35 branch. === Changes since Wikibase 1.35.0-wmde.0 === * (T280124) FedProps: ensure FedProps EntityTypeDefinitions are loaded last * (T97146) Permit restoring redirects to discard entity data * (T271618) Catch wider exception type for unresolved redirects * (T153570) SubmitEntityAction: Pass 'undoafter' and 'restore' to doEditContent * (T97146) Handle error when mixing redirects in undo * (T270353) Fix Wikibase client Scribunto test ParserOption watcher * (T264929) Skip 0 page ID in hook handler * (T264929) Use LinksUpdate::$mId in hook handler * (T269871) Don't assume wbUserSpecifiedLanguages is always there * (T267502) Fix missing Wikibase CSS on undo and diff pages * (T217144) Fix watch-on-edit settings on grant-limited requests * (T259340) Remove check for valid MW language code in Lua * (T253812) Correct directionality and language of placeholders in New Item * (T256885) Fix limit not applied in case of language fallback * (T260853) TypeError on commons Title::newFromText returning null * (T255387) Redirected links should use redirect=no * (T269666) Create a Wikibase Pingback based on MW Pingback * (T254740) Prefetch entities as part of federated properties * (T258558) Error messages for API modules that will not work with federated properties * (T255756, T258565) Handling failed requests to the federation source Wiki * (T246125, T251102) Notifications for redirects to Wikidata in Federated Properties MVP * (T246871) Changes to RDF dumping when federated properties are enabled * (T257907) Automatically alter entitysources configuration for Wikidata.org values for fed props when pointing at wikidata.org * (T255581) Changes to Special:ListDatatypes when federation is enabled == Upgrading notes for 1.35 == Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading! Some specific notes for Wikibase 1.35 upgrades are below: The term storage in Wikibase has seen significant changes and has been under migration on Wikidata from the old wb_terms table to the new normalized model for a significant period of time. In April of 2019 the Wikidata team adopted a migration strategy (T220480) where the two storage models would be living side by side for the period of the migration. The migration has happened for reads and writes which has been controlled by a set of temporary variables that determine which storage will be used. Since March of 2020 wikidata was set to not read from the old wb_terms table anymore and during fall of 2020 the wb_terms table was officially dropped (T208425) on the development branch. The following configuration settings have been added to support this migration on Wikidata and will be removed in upcoming releases. * (repo) tmpPropertyTermsMigrationStage * (repo) tmpItemTermsMigrationStages * (repo) tmpItemSearchMigrationStage * (repo) tmpPropertySearchMigrationStage When upgrading to 1.35 this migration will happen primarily in jobs that run on the repository. Therefore it might be necessary to execute runJobs.php until the new term storage has been fully populated or by increasing the job run rate by changing the value of $wgJobRunRate. On smaller Wikibase instances this migration process will automatically be handled by running update.php. Don't forget to backup your database! For more information: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/195/coming_to_terms_with_change/ https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2020-March/013901.html For a general manual to upgrade MediaWiki see: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading === Configuration changes for system administrators in 1.35 === ==== New configuration ==== * (repo) (T269666) wikibasePingback — Feature flag for turning pingback on or off. The pingback will periodically send anonymous system information to mediawiki.org. Default set to false. * (repo) (T269666) pingbackHost — The host to send pingback to. Default set to https://www.mediawiki.org/beacon/event * (repo) (T246776) federatedPropertiesEnabled — Feature flag for turning federated properties on or off. Default set to false. * (repo) (T246776) federatedPropertiesSourceScriptUrl — Host script url for federated properties feature. Example: https://www.wikidata.org/w/ * (repo) (T235032) dataBridgeEnabled — Enable the repo parts of the Data Bridge Feature; see the corresponding client setting for more information. Default set to false. * (repo) propagateChangeVisibility — Whether to propagate changes in revision visibility to client wikis. Default set to false. * (repo) changeVisibilityNotificationClientRCMaxAge — Value of the `$wgRCMaxAge` setting, which specifies the max age (in seconds) of entries in the `recentchanges` table, on the client wikis. * (repo) changeVisibilityNotificationJobBatchSize — Batch size (how many revisions per job) to use when pushing `ChangeVisibilityNotification` jobs. ==== Changed configuration ==== * (repo) idBlacklist renamed to reservedIds * (repo & client) (T256238) sharedCacheKeyPrefix — default cache key prefix changed as WBL_VERSION was removed * (T232248) Change default siteLinkGroups to only show local and fully functional sitelink groups ==== Removed configuration ==== * (repo) (T245860) useEntitySourceBasedFederation * (client) (T245860) useEntitySourceBasedFederation === New user-facing features in 1.35 === * Adds experimental support for federated properties * (T254114, T254541) Property order: Allow using # as well as or instead of * === External library changes in 1.35 === ==== New external libraries ==== * Added guzzlehttp/guzzle 6.0.0 ==== Changed external libraries ==== * Updated data-values/geo from 3.0.1 to 4.2.1 * Updated wikibase/data-model from 9.0.1 to 9.5.1 * Updated wikibase/data-model-services from 3.15.0 to 5.1 * Updated diff/diff from 2.3.0 to 3.2.0 ==== Removed external libraries ==== * Removed wikibase/term-store 1.0.0 === Bug fixes in 1.35 === * (T258507) Fix bug that causes wrong prefixes in RDF output * (T254476) Change 'Edit link' color to make it WCAG compliant * (T255078) Fix entity id lookup for interwiki special page links * (T251880) Special:Search RevisionedUnresolvedRedirectException logspam * (T216369) Fix watching new entities on existing pages * (T252803) Fix core's TitleFactory not being used correctly * (T249565) Do not try to drop wb_items_per_site when wb_terms doesn't exist * (T248147) Fix Database::normalizeUpsertKeys called with deprecated parameter * (T247985) Fix 'max' to Int32EntityId::MAX conversion * (T247553, T246898) Do not lock rows when there's no term returned * (T247553, T246898) Store item terms at late as possible to avoid deadlocks * (T245062) Do not try to load label in unknown languages in Lua * (T244129) Add missing wbeditentity summary messages for clients * (T237984) Fix incorrect deletion of rows in DatabaseTermIdsCleaner * (T243944, T243705) wb_terms: Fix incorrect deletion of rows === Action API changes in 1.35 === * (T257658) EntityTerms module added allowing for the following query Example: "action=query&prop=entityterms" === Languages updated in 1.35 === Wikibase supports over 300 languages. Many localisations are updated regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as changes to languages because of Phabricator reports. New monolingual support: * (T155424) Abza abq-latn * (T234330) Sama bdr * (T210311) Chakma ccp * (T240097) Chukchi ckt * (T220284) Kalinago crb * (T240098) Dagbani dag * (T234761) Tungag lcm * (T235468) Pattani Malay mfa * (T165648) Guernésiais nrf-gg * (T165648) Jèrriais nrf-je * (T250246) Naskapi nsk * (T230881) Pali pi-sidd * (T222426) Rumantsch rm-puter * (T222426) Rumantsch rm-rumgr * (T222426) Rumantsch rm-surmiran * (T222426) Rumantsch rm-sursilv * (T222426) Rumantsch rm-sutsilv * (T222426) Rumantsch rm-vallader * (T226701) Finnish Kalo rmf * (T230881) Pali sa-sidd * (T220284) Taíno tnq * (T239411) Wallisian wls Monolingual entries removed as they are now natively supported by MediaWiki: * (T201269) Amis ami * (T251369) Ladin lld * (T248299) Inari Sami smn * (T251369) Seediq (Taroko) trv === Breaking changes in 1.35 === * Updated minimum PHP version from 5.6.99 to 7.2.0 * (T257658) removing special pageterms behavior on repo wikis, use entityterms instead. * (T138104) Special:EntityData now serializes empty descriptions/aliases or sitelinks as empty objects instead of empty arrays === Deprecations in 1.35 === * (T249561) Deprecate Revision in: Wikibase\Repo\Diff\EntityContentDiffView::getRevisionHeader * (T208425) wb_terms will get dropped. this made the following methods deprecated: * Wikibase\Repo\Store\Store::getLegacyEntityTermStoreReader * Wikibase\Repo\Store\Store::getLegacyEntityTermStoreWriter * Wikibase\Repo\Store\Store::getLabelConflictFinder * Wikibase\Repo\Store\Store::getTermIndex * Wikibase\Lib\Tests\Store\MockTermIndex * Wikibase\Lib\Store\TermIndex * Wikibase\Lib\Store\Sql\TermSqlIndex * Wikibase\Lib\Store\NullTermIndex * Wikibase\Lib\Store\LegacyEntityTermStoreReader === Other changes in 1.35 === * Wikibase\StoreFactory has been removed * (T242096) Wikibase\Lib\Store\MultiTermStoreWriter has been removed * (T254283) Wikibase\Lib\Store\EntityInfo and related classes removed * (T256238) Constant WBC_VERSION has been removed * (T256238) Constant WBL_VERSION has been removed * (T256238) Constant WB_VERSION has been removed == Online documentation == Installation instructions and FAQ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase Developer documentation of Wikibase 1.35 https://doc.wikimedia.org/Wikibase/REL1_35/ == Mailing list == Discussion regarding the development of Wikidata https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-tech == IRC help == Questions related to wikibase and wikidata can be asked in #wikibase or #wikidata on irc.freenode.net.