I would like to announce the availability of MediaWiki 1.39.2.
This release primarily is to fix various issues around database upgrades
that users have reported on both MySQL/MariaDB and PostgreSQL.
In the case of MySQL/MariaDB, there may have been the chance of data loss
(as always, please backup before upgrading!), and page views may have
resulted in an error like "The revision #0 of the page named "x" does not
exist." This was seen only when upgrading in a bigger jump between versions
(for example 1.31 to 1.39). More information can be seen in
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T326071.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T328169 has been filed to write a
maintenance script to fix the issues caused by these upgrades. It is
expected this will be included in a later point release.
Various patches aimed at support for PHP 8.0, 8.1, and 8.2 have been
back-ported. This should fix some log spam, and MediaWiki should work fully
on versions PHP 8.0 and 8.1.
Reports of bugs with PHP 8.0, 8.1, or 8.2 support are particularly welcome,
and fixes will be back-ported when possible. Please see
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/php_8.0_support/,
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/php_8.1_support/ and
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/php_8.2_support/ for the relevant
work boards.
The tarballs have already been uploaded as of this email; the git tag has
also already been pushed.
== Release notes ==
Full release notes for 1.39.2:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_39/RELEASE-NOTES…https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.39
== Changes since MediaWiki 1.39.1 ==
* Localisation updates.
* (T325872) ChangeTags: Remove table name from condition.
* (T324895) MWCallbackStream: Add explicit $stream property.
* (T297031, T326039) PostgresUpdater: Move setDefault ahead of
changeNullableField.
* (T321319) Produce HTML for invalid JSON.
* (T215466, T326071) MigrateActors: Write to revision table (Follow-up
24115a8).
* (T223027) ReservedUsernames config: Add reserved names from maintenance
scripts.
* (T325000, T324896, T307631) Updated OOUI from v0.44.3 to v0.44.5.
* Remove /images .htaccess rules that are no longer relevant.
* Disable php in .htaccess of images directory as a hardening measure.
* (T322583) Include missing message parameter in message.
* LocalFileTest: use encodeBlob/decodeBlob for img_metadata.
* DatabaseSqlite: fix null blobs.
* rdbms: avoid pg_escape_bytea() call-style deprecation notices.
* (T322278) Improve LocalisationCache post-merge validation check.
* (T324408, T326367) Updated wikimedia/remex-html from 3.0.2 to 3.0.3.
* (T322278) Fix the remaining Phan failures on PHP 8.1.
* (T322278, T326367) Respond to some messages from Phan on PHP 8.1.
* Fix phan error when Excimer is enabled.
* (T326021) Add matrix: to $wgUrlProtocols.
* (T314099) stream wrapper: Declare $context class property.
* (T314099) libs\jsminplus: Declare JSNode::$expression.
* (T314096) composer.json: Updated composer/spdx-licenses from 1.5.6 to
1.5.7.
* (T326472) Upgrading cssjanus/cssjanus (v2.1.0 => v2.1.1).
* (T308536) rdbms: Remove deprecation mark for $wgSharedDB.
* (T215466, T326071) installer: Split drop action out of the SQL patch for
actor migration.
* (T322603) SqliteMaintenance.php: Fix fatally broken instanceof check.
* (T326377) rdbms: Use DBConnRef in SelectQueryBuilder.
* api/en.json: api-help-datatype-expiry add missing 'may'.
* (T317329) OutputPage: Fix undefined ['host'] in ImagePreconnect code.
* (T328222) Pass empty string to strlen() if schema is null for
PostgresDatabase.
* (T289926) SpecialRevisionDelete: Set default of '' for wpReason.
* (T155582, T328503) Fix XML dumps for content types with non-string
getNativeData().
* (T326886) PoolCounterRedis: Fix wrong cast, locks weren't being released.
* (T314099) revisiondelete: Replace dynamic property Status::$itemStatuses
* (T327821) skin: Restore default 'value' attribute in makeSearchButton().
* (T329198) ParamValidator: Improve paramvalidator-help-multi-max message.
* (T329415) Clear the statsd data buffer regardless of StatsdServer config.
* (T292348) WikiImporter: do not fail if upload entry in dump lacks 'text'
tag.
* (T330049) UnregisteredLocalFile: Don't call MimeAnalyzer if no path.
* (T324894 TempFSFile: Use a WeakMap for reference tracking if available.
* (T295637) Add no to fallback chain of nb and nn.
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Download:
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-1.39.2.tar.gzhttps://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-1.39.2.zip
Download without bundled extensions:
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-core-1.39.2.tar.gzhttps://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-core-1.39.2.zip
Patch to previous version (1.39.1):
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-1.39.2.patch.gzhttps://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-1.39.2.patch.zip
GPG signatures:
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-core-1.39.2.tar.gz.…https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-core-1.39.2.zip.sighttps://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-1.39.2.tar.gz.sighttps://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-1.39.2.zip.sighttps://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-1.39.2.patch.gz.sighttps://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-1.39.2.patch.zip.sig
Public keys:
https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html
As per the MediaWiki version lifecycle[1], I would like to announce the
formal end of life (EOL) of MediaWiki 1.37 as of today, Wednesday November
30, 2022.
This means that MediaWiki 1.37 will no longer receive maintenance or
security backports. It is therefore strongly discouraged that you continue
to use it.
It is recommended to upgrade either to MediaWiki 1.38, which will be
supported until June 2023 or to 1.39 (released today), the next LTS after
1.35, which will be supported until November 2025.
Thanks!
Sam Reed
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_lifecycle
Hi all,
On Thursday we will be issuing a security and maintenance release to all
supported branches of MediaWiki.
The new releases will be:
- 1.35.8
- 1.37.5
- 1.38.3
This will resolve three low priority issues in MediaWiki core along with
bug fixes included for maintenance reasons. This includes various patches
for PHP 8.0 and PHP 8.1 support.
We will make the fixes available in the respective release branches (plus
1.39 which is currently in release candidate status) and master in git.
Tarballs will be available for the above mentioned point releases as well.
A summary of some of the security fixes that have gone into non-bundled
MediaWiki extensions will also follow later.
As a reminder, 1.37 is due to become end of life (EOL) in November 2022.
1.37.5 is expected to be the last release for this branch. It is
recommended to upgrade to 1.38, or to 1.39 (the next LTS after 1.35) due to
be released in November 2022.
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_lifecycle