Hi,
The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/42%3E. Below is the English version.
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Latest *tech news https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/42 are available.
*Problems*
- Because of the problems with the MediaWiki version two weeks ago last week's updates are also late. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263177[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263178[3] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-October/093944.html
*Changes later this week*
- Live previews https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Live_preview didn't show the templates used in the preview if you just edited a section. This has now been fixed. You can also test CSS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:CSS and JavaScript https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:JavaScript pages even if you have the live preview enabled. Previously this didn't work well. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T102286[5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186390 - [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.13 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 October. It will be on all wikis from 15 October (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap).
*Future changes*
- [image: Advanced item] A new stable version of Pywikibot https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Pywikibot is coming soon. [6] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/pywikibot/2020-October/010056.html
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//Johan Jönsson