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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/2015/06 are available.

*Problems*

- There was a security issue on Wikimedia Labs. Many Labs tools were down after the issue was fixed. [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.labs/3284

*Software changes this week*

- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/wmf15 of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since January 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 3. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 4 (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/Roadmap). - The "Save page" button in the VisualEditor toolbar is now blue rather than green. This is the same as on the mobile site. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T86507 - You can now edit pages on the draft namespace with VisualEditor on the Russian Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia. You can ask to get VisualEditor for a namespace on your wiki. When your community agrees, ask in Phabricator. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T86688 [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87027

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