[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.34.0-rc.1 is ready for testing

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of MediaWiki 1.34.0-rc.1, the first second candidate for 1.34.x. Download links at the end of the e-mail. The tag has been signed and pushed to Git. Please note that MediaWiki 1.34 no longer supports HHVM, and also the PHP version requirement has been raised from 7.0.13 in MediaWiki 1.33, to 7.2.9. 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 always please do try out the release candidate in a test environment and report any issues that you discover. Please use the #MW-1.34-Release [2] tag in Phabricator when reporting issues specific to this release. MediaWiki 1.34.0-rc.1 reverts some deprecations in the Parser code that were reported for not properly following our deprecation policy. There is a known and intermittent issue that surfaces itself as "Circular dependency when creating service!", see T231866 [3] for more information. If you experience this issue, please let us know (on the ticket) to get an idea of how prevalent it is. It is intended to get this resolved for 1.34.0. It is expected that MediaWiki 1.34 will become final in the second half of November 2019. Preliminary release notes: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/source/mediawiki/browse/REL1_34/RELEASE-N… https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.34 MediaWiki core with bundled extensions: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.34/mediawiki-1.34.0-rc.1.tar.gz Core only, no extensions: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.34/mediawiki-core-1.34.0-rc.1.ta… GPG signatures: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.34/mediawiki-core-1.34.0-rc.1.ta… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.34/mediawiki-1.34.0-rc.1.tar.gz.… Public keys: https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html Open Bugs: [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/3386/ Bug report form: [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?tags=MW-1.34-… [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T231866 ********************************************************************** Download: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.34/mediawiki-1.34.0-rc.1.tar.gz Download without bundled extensions: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.34/mediawiki-core-1.34.0-rc.1.ta… GPG signatures: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.34/mediawiki-core-1.34.0-rc.1.ta… https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.34/mediawiki-1.34.0-rc.1.tar.gz.… Public keys: https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html