On 17/02/2020, Johan Jönsson jjonsson@wikimedia.org wrote:

Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/08%3E. Below is the English version.

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*Recent changes*

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//Johan Jönsson