Your help is welcome to provide feedback (CR±1/2) and guidance:
== mediawiki/core: ==
since 2016-11-21: Support Basic Auth on outgoing HTTP https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/320388/
== mediawiki/extensions/LdapAuthentication: ==
since 2016-09-27 (5th time listed here): Allow local user creation even if LDAP user creation is disabled https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/313019/ (Still no CR±1 decision but review comments by Tgr)
Thanks in advance for your reviews!
Of last time's 6 listed patches, 5 got merged. Thanks to FlorianSW and VolkerE!