On 25 November 2014 at 04:13, Mark A. Hershberger <mah(a)nichework.com> wrote:
I am happy to announce the final release candidate for
MediaWiki 1.24.0.
Download links are given at the end of this email. There won't be any
more RC candidates before a final release on Wednesday unless someone
finds a really critical error.
== Changes since 1.24.0-rc.2 ==
* The composer.json file has been renamed to composer.json.sample after
Jamie Thingelstad reported that his composer.json was overwritten by
the tarball.
I have to agree with Legoktm.
Quote from
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading#Using_a_tarball_package:
"You should put the decompressed tarball in a new and empty folder on
your server. If you instead extract the new version directly on top of
your old version, rather than in a new directory, you should follow
#Back up existing files and the database: otherwise, if you've made
any customizations you may erase them in a way that leaves you with no
reference to re-apply them from."
Also, this will complicate installation instructions for every
extension and skin that uses composer. They will now have to
distinguish between two possible baselines which is a hassle for
developers but more importantly a source of confusion for users.
Stephan