On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 12:47 PM Sam Reed reedy@wikimedia.org wrote:
As per the MediaWiki version lifecycle[1], I would like to announce the formal end of life (EOL) of MediaWiki 1.38 as of today, Friday June 30, 2023.
1.38.7 is expected to be the last release for this branch.
This means that MediaWiki 1.38 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 1.39 (LTS), which will be supported until November 2025 or to 1.40 (released today), which will be supported until June 2024.
Is there a path available to folks who use MW 1.38 and have hosting providers that only offer Ubuntu 20.04 with Composer 1? My testing revealed we could not update to MW 1.39 because of the Composer 2 requirement.
I think our options are... we need to wait until our hosting provider offers Ubuntu 22.04, or MediaWiki drops the Composer 2 requirement for MW 1.39.
It is an uncomfortable position to be in.
Jeff