Hi,

The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/22%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/2019/22 are available.

*Changes later this week*

- [image: Advanced item] Big changes to the replica database https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Replication_(computing) will happen on 3 June. Some tools on Cloud Services https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Cloud_Services_Introduction will stop working if the maintainers do not update them to use the new schema. This probably affects tools that query for revisions or log entries made by a user. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223406[2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/cloud-announce/2019-May/000172.html - [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/wmf.7 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May ( calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/Roadmap).

*Meetings*

- [image: Recurrent item] [image: Advanced item] You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 May at 15:00 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190528T15. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting.

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//Johan Jönsson