Hi all,
Tomorrow we will be issuing a security and maintenance release to all
supported branches of MediaWiki.
It will also coincide with the with formal release of 1.34.0, which has
been a little bit delayed due to the US holidays and the Wikimedia
Technical Conference whilst the last few couple of outstanding issues could
be fixed. It also meant that a followup release to the REL1_34 branch
wouldn't be needed only a couple of weeks after the 1.34.0 release was cut.
The new releases will be:
1.34.0
1.33.2
1.32.6
1.31.6
This will resolve 1 issue in MediaWiki core (when running on older PHP
versions), and also includes some fixes previously committed to git, such
as minor security and hardening patches.
Fixes will be available in these respective release branches, and also
master. Tarballs will be available for the above mentioned point releases
as well.
1.32.6 will also be the final release for 1.32 (barring any unforeseen
issues), which is scheduled to become end of life in January 2020 [1]. If
you're using 1.32, it is recommended that you upgrade to the latest point
release of the 1.33 branch (1.33.2, to be released tomorrow) or 1.34.0 to
carry on using a maintained and supported release.
This security release includes fixes for MediaWiki core.
A summary of some of the security fixes that have gone into non bundled
MediaWiki extensions will also follow.
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_lifecycle
Thanks!
Sam
Hi, there,
I partially solved the problem thanks to a precious suggestion (thanks Hershel): to update the version of Metrolook to 1.33 (which I had not done).
Now the skin is the correct one, I see the SideBar and also the images.
I still have the problem of not being able to access my wiki with my administrator credentials (WikiSysop) or with those of any other user, i.e: NO LOGIN at all.
Given that the update script did not show any errors except this one (for Anonymous and some other user):
... rev_id=8578
User name "Anonymous" is usable, cannot create an anonymous actor for it. Run maintenance/cleanupUsersWithNoId.php to fix this situation
What else can I do?
Valerio Pelliccioni
W: https://tunearch.org/
From: "Valerio M. Pelliccioni" <vmp(a)silkwood.it>
Date: Monday, 16 December 2019 at 11:53
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Failed to upgrade from 1.32.5 to 1.33.1
Hi, there,
I'm not new to the MediaWiki update process.
I have already updated major and minor releases in the past (i.e. from 1.29 to 1.32 and from 1.32 to 1.32.5).
Today I tried to update to 1.33.1 and after performing all the preparatory steps:
. Check the requirements
. Read the release notes
. Back up existing files and the database
. Unpack the new files in a new and empty folder on my server
. Upgrade extensions
. Copied all files (and directories) from the old installation (images, LocalSettings, skins, etc.)
I run the update script but, unlike the previous updates, the wiki
. did not show my default skin (Metrolook),
. did not show images,
. did not show the SideBar
. and especially did not allow me (WikiSysop, nor other users) to login (the wiki asked me to provide a password longer than 8 characters)
I didn't investigate any further; these result was enough for me to go back to my footsteps...restored the wikiDB, run the update script in the old (1.32.5) maintenance directory and now everything works fine (as expected).
Did I forget any steps, or made something wrong during the update process?
ProductVersion
MediaWiki1.32.5
PHP7.2.17-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 (apache2handler)
MariaDB10.1.38-MariaDB-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
Any little help is appreciated.
Valerio Pelliccioni
W: https://tunearch.org
Hi, there,
I'm not new to the MediaWiki update process.
I have already updated major and minor releases in the past (i.e. from 1.29 to 1.32 and from 1.32 to 1.32.5).
Today I tried to update to 1.33.1 and after performing all the preparatory steps:
. Check the requirements
. Read the release notes
. Back up existing files and the database
. Unpack the new files in a new and empty folder on my server
. Upgrade extensions
. Copied all files (and directories) from the old installation (images, LocalSettings, skins, etc.)
I run the update script but, unlike the previous updates, the wiki
. did not show my default skin (Metrolook),
. did not show images,
. did not show the SideBar
. and especially did not allow me (WikiSysop, nor other users) to login (the wiki asked me to provide a password longer than 8 characters)
I didn't investigate any further; these result was enough for me to go back to my footsteps...restored the wikiDB, run the update script in the old (1.32.5) maintenance directory and now everything works fine (as expected).
Did I forget any steps, or made something wrong during the update process?
ProductVersion
MediaWiki1.32.5
PHP7.2.17-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 (apache2handler)
MariaDB10.1.38-MariaDB-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
Any little help is appreciated.
Valerio Pelliccioni
W: https://tunearch.org
Hi,
A new episode of the MediaWiki podcast Between the Brackets has been
released: this one is an interview with Gergő Tisza, also known as user
"Tgr", a developer at the Wikimedia Foundation. You can listen to the
episode here:
http://betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-49-gerg-tisza
Also, I forgot to send an announcement email about the previous episode,
two weeks ago - an interview with Jan Höffler of ReplicationWiki:
http://betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-48-jan-hffler
I hope you enjoy both!
-Yaron
Hello everyone,
I have troubles running several wikis on a same installation.
In fact I cannot use neither symlinks nor subdomain redirections to do it. So I have tried a hand-mde solution with a copy of index.php.
i.e. : I want to run 4 wikis, that I have called :
- andra
- anthony
- nita
- crep
To go to andra for example I type the address :
pascal.lautre.net/w/andra.php
and I have created a LocalSettings-$wikiname.php for each of the 4 wikis, setting a switch in the main LocalSettings.php to include the appropriate one.
But I've got all my vairables and paths erased when the wiki redirects, it calls index.php/Accueil for example and I have no way to know what was the original call.
I have even tried to use a hook, the BeforePageRedirect hook, but it worked only for loading the Accueil page (I guess it would be called HOme in english, or Welcome), after, I have the problem again when I try to connect, the link points to index.php instead of andra.php.
Here is the code of my LocalSettings.php:
<?php
$ppw = "/w";
if (! isset($pascal_request_uri)) {
$pascal_request_uri = split("/", $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])[2];
}
$wgHooks['BeforePageRedirect'][] = function ($out, &$redirect, &$code) {
GLOBAL $pascal_request_uri;
GLOBAL $ppw;
$redirect = ereg_replace("/index.php", "/$pascal_request_uri", $redirect);
return true;
};
switch ($pascal_request_uri) {
case "andra.php":
case "anthony.php":
case "nita.php":
case "crep.php":
require_once("LocalSettings-$pascal_request_uri");
break;
default:
echo "<p>NO wiki specified. please choose a wiki, ex: <br>\n";
echo $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . "$ppw/idees.php<br>\n";
exit(1);
}
Thank you for any help!
Pascal
Can anybody help me understand why this template displays different values
in Firefox than it does in Chrome?
https://ddowiki.com/page/Template:Item
You can see quite clearly in the two examples that are on the template
page, if you check in different browsers. In Firefox the results are what
I would expect, the link labels are "Carnifex" and "mirror". However, in
Chrome (and Edge) the labels are "I:Carnifex" and "I:mirror", which based
on the template code I would not expect at all. Does anyone know why this
is happening?