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Latest *tech news https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/27 are available.

*Recent software changes*

- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf11 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 26. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 1, and to all Wikipedias on July 3 (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap).

*VisualEditor news*

- Context menus in VisualEditor will no longer flicker and disappear when you insert a new reference, formula, image, etc. [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66855 [2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/141940/ - A bug that prevented relocating items due to cache was fixed last week. [3] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67040 [4] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/141949/ - VisualEditor will no longer scroll to the bottom of the page when you try to edit section 0. When you try to add a formula, VisualEditor will no longer scroll to the top of the page. [5] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66674 [6] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/141977/ [7] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66813 [8] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/141985/ - Links to category pages or file pages added with VisualEditor will now work correctly. [9] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50279 [10] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/142136/

*Future software changes*

- You will no longer be able to upload files on wikis https://tools.wmflabs.org/robin/?tool=uploadconfig that do not have any copyright tags. [11] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/136520 [12] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66960 - Toolserver tools will be stopped on June 30. Please make sure to change gadgets that link to the Toolserver https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&search=toolserver&fulltext=Search&ns8=1&profile=advanced to point to Tool Labs instead. - CirrusSearch https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search will be enabled on June 30 as the primary search method on 34 new wikis, including the Czech (cs), Danish (da), Finnish (fi) and Hebrew (he) Wikipedias. [13] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/142590/ - All Wikimedia wikis will be using a security method called perfect forward secrecy https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/en:Forward_secrecy#Perfect_forward_secrecy starting on July 1. If you see a problem, please report it. [14] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53259 [15] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/132393/ - Starting on July 1, it will be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. [16] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-June/000791.html - You will soon see block information when you visit the contributions page or try to edit the user page or user talk page of a user who is affected by an IP range block https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/en:Classless_Inter-Domain_Routing#CIDR_notation . [17] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/20790 [18] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/133988/ - You will soon be able to use {{!}} as a magic word https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Magic_words to produce the pipe https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/en:Vertical_bar character, for instance for use in tables https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Tables. [19] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/136234/

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