Dear list members,

WP-MIRROR 0.7.4 is now available.

0) Features

Configuration of MediaWiki has been greatly improved.

Incremental XML data dump files now used.

SSL enabled so that wikis are now protocol independent (may access via HTTPS).

URL fallback list increases reliability of downloading XML data dump files.

Wiki `talk' pages now installed.

1) Updates

Dependencies have been brought up to date:

MediaWiki updated to 1.24.22.

MediaWIki extensions updated to 1.24.22.

XML Data Dump Schema updated to 0.10.

2) MediaWiki extensions

Many extensions have been added for use with various WMF projects:

Wikinews: DynamicPageList;

Wikipedia: CommonsMetadata, JsonConfig, Mantle, MultimediaViewer, PageImages,

Popups;

Wikisource: DoubleWiki, Proofreadpage, RandomRootPage;

Wikiversity: Quiz; and

Wikivoyage: CustomData, GeoCrumbs, MapSources.

3) Home pages updated

<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wp-mirror>
<http://www.nongnu.org/wp-mirror/>

4) Thanks

I would especially like to thank the following contributors:

Luiz Augusto for submitting bug reports, and for requesting features of importance to the wikisource and wikiversity projects.

Guy Catagnoli for reading the WP-MIRROR code and submitting many comments; for submitting bug reports with log files containing valuable debug info, and for feature requests.

Sincerely Yours,

Kent