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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/2021/21 are available.

*Recent changes*

- The Wikimedia movement has been using IRC https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/IRC on a network called Freenode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Freenode. There have been changes around who is in control of the network. The Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/IRC/Group_Contacts have decided https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Diff/21476411 to move to the new Libera Chat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Libera_Chat network instead. This is not a formal decision for the movement to move all channels but most Wikimedia IRC channels will probably leave Freenode. There is a migration guide https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Migrating_to_Libera_Chat and ongoing Wikimedia discussions about this https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum#Freenode_(IRC).

*Changes later this week*

- [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.37/wmf.7 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 May. It will be on all wikis from 27 May ( calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.37/Roadmap).

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//Johan Jönsson