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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/2021/25 are available.

*Recent changes*

- [image: Advanced item] The otrs-member group name is now vrt-permissions. This could affect abuse filters. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280615

*Problems*

- You will be able to read but not edit German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and 5:30 UTC https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20210623T0500 . [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T284530

*Changes later this week*

- [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.37/wmf.11 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 June. It will be on all wikis from 24 June (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.37/Roadmap).

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//Johan Jönsson