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*Recent changes*

- [image: Advanced item] In the AbuseFilter https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:AbuseFilter extension, an ip_in_ranges() function has been introduced to check if an IP is in any of the ranges. Wikis are advised to combine multiple ip_in_range() expressions joined by | into a single expression for better performance. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T305017 - The IP Info feature https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/IP_Editing:_Privacy_Enhancement_and_Abuse_Mitigation/IP_Info_feature which helps abuse fighters access information about IPs, has been deployed https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/IP_Editing:_Privacy_Enhancement_and_Abuse_Mitigation/IP_Info_feature#May_24,_2022 to all wikis as a beta feature. This comes after weeks of beta testing on test.wikipedia.org.

*Changes later this week*

- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/wmf.14 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 June. It will be on all wikis from 2 June (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/Roadmap). - Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 31 May at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s5.dblist). - The New Topic Tool https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:DiscussionTools#New_topic_tool will be deployed for all editors at most wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion . [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk_pages_project/New_discussion [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T287804 - [image: Advanced item] The list=usercontribs API https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ApiHelp/query%2Busercontribs will support fetching contributions from an IP range https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Range_blocks#Non-technical_explanation soon. API users can set the uciprange parameter to get contributions from any IP range within the limit https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgRangeContributionsCIDRLimit. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177150 - A new parser function will be introduced: {{=}}. It will replace existing templates named "=". It will insert an equal sign https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Equals_sign. This can be used to escape the equal sign in the parameter values of templates. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91154

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