MediaWiki-l November 2022

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by Zoran Dori

Hello, I'm working on one wiki which shows characters in a weird way. UTF-8 is used for encoding, so I believe that it isn't an issue. You can take a look here Statik A – Sub Bavaria (sub-bavaria.de) <http://www.sub-bavaria.de/w/index.php?title=Statik_A>, so you can better understand what I'm talking about. Could you please point me to something that I should look for, so I can fix this issue? Wiki was previously on version 1.31, I've upgraded it to 1.38. Thanks for your help and understanding! Best regards, Zoran

4 months, 3 weeks

Announcing MediaWiki 1.39.0

by Sam Reed

I am happy to announce the availability of the general release of MediaWiki 1.39! Tarballs have already been uploaded, and the git tag has been pushed. Thanks to everyone who helped out with this release, especially thanks to those who tested out the release candidates and provided feedback, as well as the developers who worked hard to get several important fixes merged in time for the 1.39 final release. To see what's changed in 1.39, see the release notes below. Please note that the PHP version requirement has been raised from 7.3.19 in MediaWiki 1.38 (and 1.35) to 7.4.3. MediaWiki 1.39 is the first release of MediaWiki 'born' with PHP 8.0 and PHP 8.1 support included. We anticipate there may be some as-yet undiscovered bugs with PHP 8.x support, of which we'd love to hear reports so they can be fixed. We plan to back-port fixes to 1.38 and 1.35 to the extent possible. MediaWiki 1.39 is an LTS and is due to be supported until the end of November 2025. As a reminder, 1.35 LTS is due to become end-of-life in November 2023, and 1.38 is due to become end-of-life in June 2023. 1.37 is becoming end-of-life today, and will be formally announced in a separate email. === Changes since MediaWiki 1.39.0-rc.1 === * Localisation updates. * exception: Tolerate no service container when trying DB rollback. * (T320282) Upgrading wikimedia/xmp-reader (0.8.3 => 0.8.4). * objectcache: Deprecate WANObjectCache::reap() and ::reapCheckKey(). * (T320864) When calling mail(), use an array for headers. * Upgrading wikimedia/xmp-reader (0.8.4 => 0.8.5). * (T321154) Call setFormIdentifier() on LogEventsList form. * When importing revision with same timestamp as latest revision, treat it as the new latest. * (T320726) RandomImageGenerator::getImageSpec: Don't pass a float to mt_rand(), for PHP 8.1. * (T298485, T322360) WikiExporter: Avoid calling reload in processing every row. * (T321551) pager: Fix null used for foreach in Pager::getNavigationBar. * (T321551) pager: Remove unused AlphabeticPager::getOrderTypeMessages() support. * pager: Remove unused PagerNavigationBuilder::setExtra(). * PagerNavigationBuilder: Document that nulls in setLinkQuery() etc. are allowed. * (T322335) ApiQueryRevisionsBase: Fix 'rvdiffto' parameter handling on PHP 8.0. * (T314096) TestFileEditor: Fix string interpolation. * (T289926) api: Fix minor PHP 8.1 incompatibility in ApiOptions. * (T322803) SpecialBotPasswords: Don't pass null to trim(). * (T289926) Fix incomplete ITextFormatter mocks. * Language: Handle ronna and quetta. * (T72510) rdbms: make SqlitePlatform::tableName() apply double quotes. * (T323373) Parser: Fix extractSections() behavior for PHP >= 8.0. * .gitattributes: Ship docker-compose.yml to the tarball. Open Bugs: [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/5694/ Bug report form: [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?tags=MW-1.39-… ********************************************************************** Download: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-1.39.0.tar.gz https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-1.39.0.zip Download without bundled extensions: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-core-1.39.0.tar.gz https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-core-1.39.0.zip Patch to previous version (1.39.0-rc.1): https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-1.39.0.patch.gz https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-1.39.0.patch.zip GPG signatures: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-core-1.39.0.tar.gz.… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-core-1.39.0.zip.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-1.39.0.tar.gz.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-1.39.0.zip.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-1.39.0.patch.gz.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-1.39.0.patch.zip.sig Public keys: https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html Release Notes https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.39

5 months, 3 weeks

MediaWiki 1.37 is End of Life

by Sam Reed

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

6 months

New version of Working with MediaWiki out

by Yaron Koren

Hi everyone, I'm pleased to announce that a new version of my MediaWiki reference book, "Working with MediaWiki" is now out. This is the fifth version of the book: it first came out in 2012, and I have tried to update it every two or three years, because after that point a MediaWiki book starts to show its age. This latest version is fully updated for 2022 and MediaWiki 1.39, including lots of new screenshots, new extensions and skins, and updated information on all sorts of things. The website for the book is here: https://workingwithmediawiki.com/ You can also read the book online in its entirety, here: https://workingwithmediawiki.com/book/ However, if you want to have a physical copy of the book - for you, your loved ones, or co-workers - you can also order it on Amazon, or a number of other sites like Barnes & Noble - there are ordering links on the main site. It's now at the relatively low price of $25, or its equivalent in other currencies. Perfect for the holidays, I would say! If you do read it, I hope you enjoy it, Yaron -- WikiWorks · MediaWiki Consulting · http://wikiworks.com

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