It is time again for a new MediaWiki release candidate.

Since last week, patches to fix the following bugs were included in the tarball:

Bug 46719: Remove link to Special:ActiveUsers from Special:Statistics Bug 46493: Handle invalid titles on ProtectedPages and ProtectedTitles Bug 46787: API: Fix rccontinue handling Bug 40617: Installer can now customize the logo in LocalSettings.php

Newly reported, but not yet fixed, during testing of RC1:

Bug 46943: Job queue items from 1.20 get lost – need exit strategy for upgrade

Please download the release candidate and test it. If you find any bugs please report them on Bugzilla[1] and make sure I am added as a CC so that we can fix any show-stoppers before the final release.

Don't forget to look over https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.21 and make any corrections or additions that are needed since I'll be using a (lightly edited) version of that to make the final announcement.

Finally, I'll be preparing a third release candidate for next week. Quim Gil wants to do a testing week during that time. If you'd like to help me put together a testing plan for that week, let me know.

[1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki&cc=mah@ev...

Full release notes: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.21

********************************************************************** Download: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc2.tar.gz

Patch to previous version (1.20.0), without interface text: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc2.patch.gz Interface text changes: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-i18n-1.21.0rc2.patch....

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