Hello mobile wikimedians,
Big day for Wikipedia apps. First, big congrats to the Android team on
today's awesome update!
On iOS, after a long beta testing period[1], focusing on improving
performance and reducing crashes and instability, we've released the 5.0.5
version of Wikipedia to the App Store.
We expect users will see:
- less hangs or failures to load on the Explore feed
- full AuthManager support and stable account log in and creation
- use less device resources, espeically when backgrounded and in our
backups
- most importantly, less crashes!!
We also fixed over a two dozen other bugs and usability issues, large and
small.
Thanks to our volunteers (particularly thanks to huayu0723, bart-kneepkens
and gregggreg2 for their code contributions, and josve05a for his
invaluable help with OTRS and testing). I also want to thank our beta
testers, who put in extra effort on this version to help us find and
diagnose stability issues.
Thanks,
Josh
[1] - You can read about the changes we made and the reason behind the long
beta in previous announce post here:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2016-June/010254.html