Hello,

This email is to inform you of a small backwards-incompatible change to LinksUpdate class in MediaWiki core.

LinksUpdate::getTriggeringUser method will start returning an instance of UserIdentity instead of a User object

as of [1]. All 2 known usages of this method are satisfied with UserIdentity interface, and going through a full

deprecation process here would require renaming the method and will just cause more pain to extension

developers.

Best regards.

Petr Pchelko

Staff Software Engineer

Platform Engineering at WMF