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Announcing MediaWiki 1.41.0
by Sam Reed 21 Dec '23

21 Dec '23

I am happy to announce the availability of the general release of MediaWiki 1.41! This includes the security fix announced in 1.35.14/1.39.6/1.40.1. Tarballs have already been uploaded, and the git tag has been pushed. Thanks to everyone who helped out with this release, especially thanks to those who tested out the release candidate and provided feedback, as well as the developers who worked hard to get several important fixes merged in time for the 1.41 final release. To see what's changed in 1.41, see the release notes below. MediaWiki 1.41 is the third release of MediaWiki 'born' with PHP 8.0 (and newer) support included. We anticipate there may be some as-yet undiscovered bugs with PHP 8.x support, of which we'd love to hear reports so they can be fixed. We plan to back-port fixes to 1.40 and 1.39 to the extent possible. MediaWiki 1.41 is due to be supported until the end of December 2024. As a reminder, 1.35 LTS became end-of-life today, 21 December 2023. === Changes since MediaWiki 1.41.0-rc.0 === * Localisation updates. * Update wikimedia/parsoid to 0.18.0. * (T351758) DEVELOPERS.md: reword WSL instructions to include best practices. * (T350615) PoolCounterConnectionManager: Add support for ipv6. * (T321234) Make MagicWordArray not fail on old revs with broken UTF-8. * thumb: Fix "PHP Deprecated: strlen(): Passing null to parameter". * (T344971) Maintenance: Fix RebuildTextIndex. * (T327007) htmlform: Correct validation for file input field. Open Bugs: [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/6600/ Bug report form: [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?tags=MW-1.41-… ********************************************************************** Download: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.41/mediawiki-1.41.0.tar.gz https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.41/mediawiki-1.41.0.zip Download without bundled extensions: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.41/mediawiki-core-1.41.0.tar.gz https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.41/mediawiki-core-1.41.0.zip Patch to previous version (1.41.0-rc.0): https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.41/mediawiki-1.41.0.patch.gz https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.41/mediawiki-1.41.0.patch.zip GPG signatures: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.41/mediawiki-core-1.41.0.tar.gz.… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.41/mediawiki-core-1.41.0.zip.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.41/mediawiki-1.41.0.tar.gz.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.41/mediawiki-1.41.0.zip.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.41/mediawiki-1.41.0.patch.gz.sig https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.41/mediawiki-1.41.0.patch.zip.sig Public keys: https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html

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MediaWiki 1.35 is End of Life
by Sam Reed 21 Dec '23

21 Dec '23

As per the MediaWiki version lifecycle[1], I would like to announce the formal end of life (EOL) of MediaWiki 1.35 as of today, Thursday December 21, 2023. 1.35.14 is expected to be the last release for this branch. This means that MediaWiki 1.35 will no longer receive maintenance or security backports. It is therefore strongly discouraged that you continue to use it. It is recommended to upgrade either to MediaWiki 1.39 (LTS), which will be supported until November 2025, 1.40, which will be supported until June 2024, or to 1.41 (due to be released today, Thursday December 21, 2023) which will be supported until December 2024. Thanks! Sam Reed [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_lifecycle

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Security and maintenance release: 1.35.14 / 1.39.6 / 1.40.2
by Sam Reed 21 Dec '23

21 Dec '23

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Security pre-release announcement: 1.35.14 / 1.39.6 / 1.40.2
by Sam Reed 20 Dec '23

20 Dec '23

Hi all, On Thursday we will be issuing a security and maintenance release to all supported branches of MediaWiki. The new releases will be: - 1.35.14 - 1.39.6 - 1.40.2 1.41.0 is expected to follow shortly after. This will resolve one minor security issue in MediaWiki core, along with bug fixes included for maintenance reasons. This includes various patches for PHP 8.0, 8.1, 8.2 and 8.3 support. This release may or may not be made with a CVE number formally attached, due to the recent delays in receiving them from MITRE. We will make the fixes available in the respective release branches and master in git. Tarballs will be available for the above mentioned point releases as well. A summary of some of the security fixes that have gone into non-bundled MediaWiki extensions will also follow later. As a reminder, when 1.35 was released, it was originally due to become end of life (EOL) at the end of September 2023. Due to 1.39 being released late (November 2022), and to honor the commitment to the 1 year overlap of MediaWiki LTS releases, this formal EOL process was delayed till at least the end of November 2023, with the suggestion it would be December 2023. It is therefore expected that this 1.35.14 will become the final release for the 1.35 branch, and 1.35 will formally become end of life afterwards. A separate announcement will be sent for that. It is strongly recommended to upgrade to either 1.39 (the next LTS after 1.35), which will be supported until November 2025, 1.40, which will be supported until June 2024, or 1.41, which will be supported until December 2024. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_lifecycle

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Re: Inquiry Regarding Opportunities to contribute
by Vaishnavi Maheshwari 17 Dec '23

17 Dec '23

Hey! I am trying to understand wikimedia codebase but I am not able to grasp things properly. Can someone tell which will be the best project to work on if my techstack include js react and python....but I am not too good at any one of these languages. So as a newbie in which project should I contribute now? On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 8:15 PM Mailtrack Notification < notification(a)mailtrack.io> wrote: > 🔥 Hot conversation: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org opened it many times > in a short period or forwarded it. View all 426 opens > <https://mailtrack.io/reauth?url=https://mailtrack.io/en/dashboard/show/2903…> > | turn off hot conversations > <https://mailtrack.io/en/dashboard/hot-notification/disable> >

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Cloudflare Turnstile as a CAPTCHA alternative?
by psnbaotg 16 Dec '23

16 Dec '23

Hello all, I would like to draw your attention to task [T333770](https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333770) I created several months ago, for evaluating Cloudflare Turnstile as an alternative to Wikimedia's Fancy Captcha which is broken in [multiple](https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T289607) [ways](https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T6845). This is just my suggestion from a volunteer's perspective. I can see growing adoption of Turnstile in the wild (like Bing AI) in the past months, and it looks like a good balance between accessibility and bot-stopping ability. Consequently, it may better fit us than hCaptcha. I have described the pros and cons in the task. Hope somebody responsible for this area could take a look at this alternative. It will be much appreciated! Best, Diskdance

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toolsdb is readonly?
by Arthur Smith 15 Dec '23

15 Dec '23

I'm seeing an error - "The MariaDB server is running with the --read-only option" - anybody know what's going on? Arthur

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Comments like Google Docs
by Felipe Schenone 13 Dec '23

13 Dec '23

Hi! I'm thinking on writing a gadget to add inline comments to articles, similar to how Google Docs comments work. However, I'm sure I recently read somewhere about someone developing an extension or something with the same goal, but now I can't find it anywhere. Anyone knows? Thanks!

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MediaWiki 1.41.0-rc.0 is ready for testing
by James Forrester 13 Dec '23

13 Dec '23

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of MediaWiki 1.41.0-rc.0, the first release candidate for 1.41.0. Download links are at the end of the e-mail. The tag has been signed and pushed to Git. This is not a final release, and should not be used for production websites. Known issues are tracked in Phabricator on the release workboard [1]. As with every release of MediaWiki, a large number of changes have landed in the six months of development (over 2300 commits since 1.40.0 was cut), and you should read over the preliminary release notes as part of assuring yourself of areas that may have issues with your configuration, your skins, and/or your extensions. As always, please try out the release candidate in a test environment and do report any issues that you discover. Please use the #MW-1.41-Release [2] tag in Phabricator when reporting issues specific to this release, to make sure that we find them as quickly as possible. It is expected that MediaWiki 1.41 will become final next week. This date may slip into next year if blockers are identified. Preliminary release notes: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core/+/REL1_41/RELEASE-NOTES-1.41 Open Bugs: [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.41-release/ Bug report form: [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?tags=MW-1.41-… ********************************************************************** Download: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.41/mediawiki-1.41.0-rc.0.tar.gz https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.41/mediawiki-1.41.0-rc.0.zip Download without bundled extensions: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.41/mediawiki-core-1.41.0-rc.0.ta… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.41/mediawiki-core-1.41.0-rc.0.zip GPG signatures: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.41/mediawiki-core-1.41.0-rc.0.ta… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.41/mediawiki-core-1.41.0-rc.0.zi… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.41/mediawiki-1.41.0-rc.0.tar.gz.… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.41/mediawiki-1.41.0-rc.0.zip.sig Public keys: https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html -- James D. Forrester (he/him or they/themself) Wikimedia Foundation

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Introducing Wishathon for Wikimedia’s Community Wishlist!
by Srishti Sethi 13 Dec '23

13 Dec '23

Hello everyone, Wishathon is a new initiative that encourages collaboration across the Wikimedia community to develop solutions for wishes collected through the Community Wishlist Survey: < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey>. The inaugural community edition will take place from *March 15th to 17th, 2024*. You can learn more and sign up here: < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:WishathonMarch2024>. Since May 2022, the Community Tech team has organized five Wishathons < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Wishathon> internal to Foundation staff to bring greater technical capacity to address open wishes and promote collaboration on wishes within the product & technology teams. Since the inception of the Wishathon, Foundation staff have helped Community Tech complete work on 10 wishes that were otherwise stalling or incomplete. This next edition of the Wishathon extends to Wikimedia contributors as a next step in these efforts. If you are interested in a project proposal as a user, developer, designer, or product lead, you are welcome to join the event! If you wish to take part in the Wishathon, you can register for the event on this wiki page: < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:WishathonMarch2024>. Organizers will send a message to your talk page with more details about the event in January 2024 and post updates on this page. Read the full announcement: < https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/12/11/introducing-wishathon-for-wikimedias-…> Cheers, Srishti On behalf of the Wishathon organizing committee (Harumi, TheresNoTime, Karolin, Mary, Sheila, Srishti) *Srishti Sethi* Senior Developer Advocate Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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