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*Recent changes*
- The Score
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Score>
extension (<score> notation) has been re-enabled on public wikis and
upgraded to a newer version. Some musical score functionality may no longer
work because the extension is only enabled in "safe mode". The security
issue has been fixed and an advisory published
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Score/2021_security_advisory>
.
*Problems*
- You will be able to read but not edit some wikis
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T289130> for a few minutes on 25
August. This will happen around 06:00 UTC
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1629871217>. This is for database
maintenance. During this time, operations on the CentralAuth will also not
be possible.
*Changes later this week*
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.37/wmf.20> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 24 August. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 August. It will be on all
wikis from 26 August (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.37/Roadmap>).
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