The second release candidate for 1.23.0 (1.23.0-rc.1) is now available for download.

Note that we're making two changes in the release process:

1. We'll be making this and all future releases on Wednesday instead of Thursday or Friday. This will allow people to avoid late Friday nights.

2. We're switching to Semantic Versioning (http://semver.org) for the release candidates and other releases.

The changes since 1.23.0rc0 are as follows:

* Added pp_sortkey column to page_props table, so pages can be efficiently queried and sorted by property value (bug 58032). * Introduced $wgPagePropsHaveSortkey as a backwards-compatibility switch, for using the old schema of the page_props table, in case the respective schema update was not applied. * (bug 13250) Restored method for clearing a watchlist in web UI so that users with large watchlists don't have to perform contortions to clear them. * (bug 63269) Email notifications were not correctly handling the [[MediaWiki:Helppage]] message being set to a full URL (the default). If you customized [[MediaWiki:Enotif body]] (the text of email notifications), you'll need to edit it locally to include the URL via the new variable $HELPPAGE instead of the parser functions fullurl and canonicalurl; otherwise you don't have to do anything. * $wgProfileToDatabase was removed. Set $wgProfiler to ProfilerSimpleDB in StartProfiler.php instead of using this. * The fix for bug 14323 was pushed to MediaWiki 1.24 since the changes cause problems for Semantic MediaWiki users. * The modules intended for use by custom skins were renamed.

Full release notes: https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/mediawiki%2Fcore.git/1.23.0-rc.1/RELEASE-NOTE... https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.23

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Mark A. Hershberger (Release Management Team)