Hi folks,

a new stable release 78 was deployed. It can be used at PAWS as well as at toolforge and can be installed via pip, downloaded from https://pywikibot.org or updated from remote repository. What is new with it?

Breaking changes
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Python 3.5 and 3.6.1 support has beend dropped. mwparserfromhell packages is mandatory, dependencies for other packages was updated. MediaWiki < 1.27 is no longer supported. [1] On the other hand Python 3.12 is supported.

Improvements
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- 2FA-login is supported [2]
- Sphinx theme was changed to Futo and documentation has been improved
- -site:meta or -site:commons are valid short site code commands (instead of -site:meta:meta or -site:commons:commons)
- only sections can be copied with generate_user_files [3]
- roundrobin_generators [4] is used to combine generators if a limit is given
- a cookie file is created for each account for a better support of multiple accounts [5]
- federated wikibase is supported [6]

For other changes please refer the changelog [7]

Have fun.
xqt


[1] https://doc.wikimedia.org/pywikibot/stable/changelog.html#breaking-changes
[2[ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186274
[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145372
[4] https://doc.wikimedia.org/pywikibot/stable/api_ref/pywikibot.tools.html#tools.itertools.roundrobin_generators
[5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T324000
[6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173195
[7] https://doc.wikimedia.org/pywikibot/stable/changelog.html