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*Changes this week*
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.30/wmf.2> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 23 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia
wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 May. It will be on all wikis from 25 May (
calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.30/Roadmap>).
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] There will be a <div> tag around HTML from
the MediaWiki wikitext parser <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Parsing>.
Gadgets with code that does not follow recommendations could have problems
with this. You can report new problems
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163512> you think are related to
this. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T37247>
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