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*Recent changes*

- Most large file uploads https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Maximum_file_size#MAXTHUMB errors that had messages like "stashfailed" or "DBQueryError" have now been fixed. An incident report https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/2021-11-04_large_file_upload_timeouts is available.

*Problems*

- Sometimes, edits made on iOS using the visual editor save groups of numbers as telephone number links, because of a feature in the operating system. This problem is under investigation. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116525 - There was a problem with search last week. Many search requests did not work for 2 hours because of a configuration error. [2] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/2021-11-10_cirrussearch_commonsfile_outage

*Changes later this week*

- [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.38/wmf.9 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 November. It will be on all wikis from 18 November (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.38/Roadmap).

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