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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/2022/42 are available.

*Recent changes*

- The recently implemented feature of article thumbnails in Special:Search https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T306883 will be limited to Wikipedia projects only. Further details are in T320510 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T320510. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Structured_Data_Across_Wikimedia/Search_Improvements - A bug that caused problems in loading article thumbnails in Special:Search has been fixed. Further details are in T320406 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T320406.

*Changes later this week*

- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40/wmf.6 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 October. It will be on all wikis from 20 October (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/Roadmap). - Lua module authors can use mw.loadJsonData() https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual#mw.loadJsonData to load data from JSON pages. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217500 - Lua module authors can enable require( "strict" ) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual#Strict_library to add errors for some possible code problems. This replaces "Module:No globals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16748603" on most wikis. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209310

*Future changes*

- The Beta Feature https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures for DiscussionTools https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:DiscussionTools will be updated at most wikis. The "reply" button will look different after this change. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T320683

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