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*Recent changes*
- A new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.37/wmf.14> of
MediaWiki came to the Wikimedia wikis the week before last week. This was
not in Tech News because there was no newsletter that week.
*Changes later this week*
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.37/wmf.16> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 27 July. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 July. It will be on all
wikis from 29 July (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.37/Roadmap>).
*Future changes*
- If you use the Monobook skin
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can choose to switch off responsive design
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Responsive_web_design> on mobile. This
will now work for more skins. If Enable responsive MonoBook design is
unticked you need to also untick the new preference
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering>
Enable responsive mode. Otherwise it will stop working. Interface
admins can automate this process on your wiki. You can read more
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T285991>.
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