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*Recent changes*
- The search servers have been upgraded to a new major version. If you
notice any issues with searching, please report them on Phabricator
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1849/>. [1]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/XPCTYYTN67FVFKN6XOHULJVGUO44J662>
*Changes later this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40/wmf.1>
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 13 September. It
will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 September. It
will be on all wikis from 15 September (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/Roadmap>).
- Syntax highlighting
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is now tracked as an expensive parser function
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:$wgExpensiveParserFunctionLimit>.
Only 500 expensive function calls can be used on a single page. Pages that
exceed the limit are added to a tracking category
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Pages_with_too_many_expensive_parser_function_calls>.
[2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T316858>
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