Hello all!

This is the final TechCom digest. With the new Technical Decision Making Process in place, we are spinning down the RFC process and shutting down the committee. A big Thank You to all committee members past and present for their time and dedication!

On a closing note, two RFCs have been approved after Last Call, both of which I'm personally very happy to see:

Stable interface policy amendment: The policy was amended to include a definition of the "MediaWiki Ecosystem" of extensions to be considered when deprecating obsolete code. The deprecation process was overhauled to allow for a clear timeline from soft deprecation via hard deprecation to removal.

Drop support for upgrading from old releases (pre 1.31): this frees up to remove about a thousand or so database patch files only needed for upgrading from very old systems. Upgrading from old versions of MediaWiki will still be possible, but have to be performed in multiple steps.

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Daniel Kinzler
Principal Software Engineer, Core Platform
Wikimedia Foundation