I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of MediaWiki 1.33.0-rc.0, the first release candidate for 1.33.x. Download links at the end of the e-mail. The tag has been signed and pushed to Git.

This is not a final release and should not be used for production websites. Known issues are tracked in Phabricator on the release workboard [1]. As always please do try out the release candidate in a test environment and report any issues that you discover. Please use the #MW-1.33-Release [2] tag in Phabricator when reporting issues specific to this release.

Preliminary release notes: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/source/mediawiki/browse/REL1_33/RELEASE-NO... https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.33

MediaWiki core with bundled extensions: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.33/mediawiki-1.33.0-rc.0.tar.gz

Core only, no extensions: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.33/mediawiki-core-1.33.0-rc.0.tar...

GPG signatures: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.33/mediawiki-core-1.33.0-rc.0.tar... https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.33/mediawiki-1.33.0-rc.0.tar.gz.s...

Public keys: https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html

Open Bugs: [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/3386/

Bug report form: [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?tags=MW-1.33-R...