== MediaWiki 1.42.1 == This is a maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.42 branch. === Changes since MediaWiki 1.42.0 === * Localisation updates. * Name the PagerTools array entries to allow hooks to unset them. == MediaWiki 1.42.0 == === Changes since MediaWiki 1.42.0-rc.0 === * Localisation updates. * wrapOldPasswords: Improve progress output and decrease batch size. * (T365060) Serialization test cases: fix filename after ParserOutput namespacing. * Use virtual domain when running update maintenance scripts. * (T361367) ApiFeedWatchlist: Fix handling of array parameters. * (T366130) EncryptedPassword: Store default parameters as strings. == MediaWiki 1.42.0-rc.0 == == Upgrading notes for 1.42 == Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading! See the file UPGRADE for more detailed per-version upgrade instructions from the oldest supported upgrading version, MediaWiki 1.35. Some specific notes for MediaWiki 1.42 upgrades are below: * MediaWiki 1.42 requires PHP 8.1 or above (up from 7.4) (T359868). * MediaWiki now requires Composer 2.x, and any related (vendor) files generated by Composer must be generated by Composer 2.x. Composer 1.x is mostly end of life by upstream, and using it will result in slower actions when downloading and installing packages. See the upstream blog post at https://blog.packagist.com/deprecating-composer-1-support/ for further information.