It is time again for a new MediaWiki release candidate. Download links at the end of this email. Note that I've include a "core-only" tarball this week as well.

Since last week, the following fixes were included in the tarball:

* https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/58418/ backport changes in Collation from master * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/58462/ Cleared ResourceLoader blob store after update.php finishes. * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/59102/ PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function isLocal() on non-object in Title.php * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/59265/ Combine JavaScript and JSON encoding logic * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/59328/ Fix pretty JSON when strings end with backslashes * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/59329/ FormatJson: microoptimizations for UTF8_OK mode

Fixes in queue:

* https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/59369/ Disable $wgContentHandlerUseDB during upgrade where fields don't exist. * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/59375/ Sanitize $limitReport before outputting * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/59376/ Disable external entities in XMLReader * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/59377/ Disable external entities in Import

And, finally, if you want to pitch in, it isn't too late. Here is a list of bugs I'd like to get fixed before the final release: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=46802,46401,44907,44568,44... https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=46802,46401,44907,44568,44524,43817

* http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/43817 Include short descriptions for extensions bundled in the release * http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/44294 MWException error - Error: invalid magic word 'speciale' * http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/44568 bin/ulimit5.sh isn't UNIX compliant * http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/44907 ResourceLoader: Invalid argument supplied for foreach * http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/46401 [Regression] mw.loader: Code should execute after styles being loaded (wait for async cssText buffering) * http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/46802 Enabling extensions during install process displays empty readonly textbox on status page

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

******************************************************************************************************************** Download: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc3.tar.gz http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc2.tar.gz http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-core-1.21.0rc3.tar.gz

Patch to previous version (1.20.0), without interface text: http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc3.patch.gz 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-1.21.0rc3.patch.... http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-i18n-1.21.0rc2.patch.gz

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