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*Changes this week*
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.30/wmf.2 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 May. It will be on all wikis from 25 May ( calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.30/Roadmap). - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] There will be a <div> tag around HTML from the MediaWiki wikitext parser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Parsing. Gadgets with code that does not follow recommendations could have problems with this. You can report new problems https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163512 you think are related to this. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T37247
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//Johan Jönsson