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.
Thanks!
Sam Reed
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
You could install composer from its official website instead of using the system package manager. It can be downloaded as a single .phar file.
-- Brian
On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 11:42 AM Jeffrey Walton noloader@gmail.com wrote:
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.
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On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 3:04 PM Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com wrote:
You could install composer from its official website instead of using the system package manager. It can be downloaded as a single .phar file.
Thanks Brian.
We don't want to switch hosting providers or download third party stuff. In the case of Composer, we don't have the expertise to evaluate it. Hence we rely on the distro.
(I personally don't trust Composer because it is willing to run arbitrary code. It's very sloppy in its security practices).
Jeff
On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 11:42 AM Jeffrey Walton noloader@gmail.com wrote:
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.
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You could just not use composer in that case. MediaWiki core doesn't really require it (You can use the tarball vendor or mediawiki/vendor.git repo instead). There's maybe a couple of extensions that strongly encourage its use, but they are in the minority.
Ultimately composer is a package manager, running arbitrary code (whether directly or indirectly) is kind of the point.
On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 12:13 PM Jeffrey Walton noloader@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 3:04 PM Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com wrote:
You could install composer from its official website instead of using
the system package manager. It can be downloaded as a single .phar file.
Thanks Brian.
We don't want to switch hosting providers or download third party stuff. In the case of Composer, we don't have the expertise to evaluate it. Hence we rely on the distro.
(I personally don't trust Composer because it is willing to run arbitrary code. It's very sloppy in its security practices).
Jeff
On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 11:42 AM Jeffrey Walton noloader@gmail.com
wrote:
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.
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Hello. can You please help me?
after updating to 1.40 i get this Error: Call to a member function getTemplateData() in my site www.wikimilano.it
Thank you Bruno
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