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*Tech News*
- Because of the holidays https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Christmas_and_holiday_season the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 10 January 2022.
*Recent changes*
- Queries made by the DynamicPageList extension (<DynamicPageList>) are now only allowed to run for 10 seconds and error if they take longer. This is in response to multiple outages where long-running queries caused an outage on all wikis. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T287380#7575719
*Changes later this week*
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
*Future changes*
- The developers of the Wikipedia iOS app are looking for testers who edit in multiple languages. You can read more and let them know if you are interested https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/iOS/202112_testing. - [image: Advanced item] The Wikimedia Cloud VPS https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal:Cloud_VPS hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to claim projects https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Cloud_VPS_2021_Purge they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from February. [2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/2B7KYL5VLQNHGQQHMYLW7KTUKXKAYY3T/
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