I am excited to announce that this is an exciting announcement.
Today the Wikimedia Release Engineering Team deployed a larger software upgrade of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org
You now better enjoy * Performance improvements: - Global fulltext Search ignores data of uninstalled Phab apps - Embedded full size image files are lazy loaded - Using DNS preconnect for our separate file domain - Faster rendering of Project Burndown tabular reports * Search user interface: - "Advanced Search" renamed to Global Search and application search - Global Search Scope dropdown: "Current Application" replaced by the actual app name; no more such option when the app does not support global fulltext search - Maniphest Task Search does not anymore show unused "Packages" and "Owners" when using typeahead in the "Subscribers" search field - Ctrl+Return in text boxes opens search results in a new tab * User Profile pages: - New "Authored Tasks" one-click menu item in sidebar - Less ambiguous menu item names in sidebar - Support for images in WebP format as avatars - (admins only): One-click menu item to view Activity Log of user - (admins only): User's Two-Factor Auth status shown on profile page * Project Workboards: - Those numbers in workboard column headers have now tooltips - Archived projects are now strike-through in navigation breadcrumbs - Automated Column Triggers: Allow setting the user who performs the move as task assignee - Thinner scrollbars in Firefox on Windows - Importing columns: No more crash when typeahead querying projects and search string is not a project name prefix - The "Move Tasks" action now requires "Can Bulk Edit Tasks" rights * Herald automated actions: - New condition "Acting user's projects" available - No more "Unknown Object (????)" for custom field values in editor * General text input: - No more text suddenly disappearing when writing {{#something:}} - Stripped surrounding whitespace when entering project or task titles - Support for "size=thumb" parameter when embedding video files * Conduit API: - Support search select fields as constraints, e.g. "Group By" in maniphest.search, project status in project.search, status and hosted in diffusion.repository.search - Improved documentation of types in transaction.search * User Preferences: - Email: No more useless "Audits" section (we uninstalled that app) - External Accounts: Shows tooltips for buttons - Multi-Factor Auth: Explains consequences of adding a second factor * Projects: - Profile images: Show maximum picture dimensions at uploading - No more "set this color to Red" message editing archived projects - No more 404 error on URLs with an alternative hashtag of a milestone * Project Report Charts: - Rotated x-axis labels for better readability - Improved line colors * Files: - Support rendering images in WebP format - List of uploads includes the timestamp, not only the date * Mobile: Support zooming on pages (e.g. when looking at image files) * Mobile: Detection of Firefox on Android (to adjust content width) * Tokens: Allow filtering given tokens by token types * Wikibugs IRC bot: Report the color of milestones correctly * (admins only) Allow changing email of bot and mailing list accounts * Numerous crasher fixes * Some accessibility improvements (ARIA labels, titles, etc) * Cleaner CSS (less noise in your browser's Developer Tools' console)
Our Downstream dependency trees of tasks are at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T386558 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T393840
I'd like to thank the Wikimedians BlankEclair, mainframe98, MatmaRex, pppery, taavi, valerio.bozzolan, xtex, who contributed patches to the upstream project at https://we.phorge.it. (Hope I forgot nobody?)
As usual, if you have comments or questions about Phab, please bring them up on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Phabricator/Help !
Cheers, andre (on behalf of the Wikimedia Release Engineering Team)
Thanks for your work on this, Andre & co!
In the tradition of only providing feedback when something is wrong:
I notice that now there is some pretty useless CSS that has been added in the "Activity" box on the main page, that truncates basically every single task title: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F70292620
I don't see any good reason not to show the whole title, even if it is super long. It's a website, not a classified section in a newspaper… Is that something we can disable/override locally, or is it better to report that upstream with Phorge?
tor. 25. sep. 2025 kl. 18:49 skrev Andre Klapper aklapper@wikimedia.org:
I am excited to announce that this is an exciting announcement.
Today the Wikimedia Release Engineering Team deployed a larger software upgrade of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org
You now better enjoy
- Performance improvements:
- Global fulltext Search ignores data of uninstalled Phab apps
- Embedded full size image files are lazy loaded
- Using DNS preconnect for our separate file domain
- Faster rendering of Project Burndown tabular reports
- Search user interface:
- "Advanced Search" renamed to Global Search and application search
- Global Search Scope dropdown: "Current Application" replaced by the actual app name; no more such option when the app does not support global fulltext search
- Maniphest Task Search does not anymore show unused "Packages" and "Owners" when using typeahead in the "Subscribers" search field
- Ctrl+Return in text boxes opens search results in a new tab
- User Profile pages:
- New "Authored Tasks" one-click menu item in sidebar
- Less ambiguous menu item names in sidebar
- Support for images in WebP format as avatars
- (admins only): One-click menu item to view Activity Log of user
- (admins only): User's Two-Factor Auth status shown on profile page
- Project Workboards:
- Those numbers in workboard column headers have now tooltips
- Archived projects are now strike-through in navigation breadcrumbs
- Automated Column Triggers: Allow setting the user who performs the move as task assignee
- Thinner scrollbars in Firefox on Windows
- Importing columns: No more crash when typeahead querying projects and search string is not a project name prefix
- The "Move Tasks" action now requires "Can Bulk Edit Tasks" rights
- Herald automated actions:
- New condition "Acting user's projects" available
- No more "Unknown Object (????)" for custom field values in editor
- General text input:
- No more text suddenly disappearing when writing {{#something:}}
- Stripped surrounding whitespace when entering project or task titles
- Support for "size=thumb" parameter when embedding video files
- Conduit API:
- Support search select fields as constraints, e.g. "Group By" in maniphest.search, project status in project.search, status and hosted in diffusion.repository.search
- Improved documentation of types in transaction.search
- User Preferences:
- Email: No more useless "Audits" section (we uninstalled that app)
- External Accounts: Shows tooltips for buttons
- Multi-Factor Auth: Explains consequences of adding a second factor
- Projects:
- Profile images: Show maximum picture dimensions at uploading
- No more "set this color to Red" message editing archived projects
- No more 404 error on URLs with an alternative hashtag of a milestone
- Project Report Charts:
- Rotated x-axis labels for better readability
- Improved line colors
- Files:
- Support rendering images in WebP format
- List of uploads includes the timestamp, not only the date
- Mobile: Support zooming on pages (e.g. when looking at image files)
- Mobile: Detection of Firefox on Android (to adjust content width)
- Tokens: Allow filtering given tokens by token types
- Wikibugs IRC bot: Report the color of milestones correctly
- (admins only) Allow changing email of bot and mailing list accounts
- Numerous crasher fixes
- Some accessibility improvements (ARIA labels, titles, etc)
- Cleaner CSS (less noise in your browser's Developer Tools' console)
Our Downstream dependency trees of tasks are at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T386558 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T393840
I'd like to thank the Wikimedians BlankEclair, mainframe98, MatmaRex, pppery, taavi, valerio.bozzolan, xtex, who contributed patches to the upstream project at https://we.phorge.it. (Hope I forgot nobody?)
As usual, if you have comments or questions about Phab, please bring them up on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Phabricator/Help !
Cheers, andre (on behalf of the Wikimedia Release Engineering Team)
-- Andre Klapper (he/him) | Bugwrangler https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list -- wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to wikitech-l-leave@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/
See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T410449
On Thu, 20 Nov 2025, 6:15 am Jon Harald Søby, jhsoby@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for your work on this, Andre & co!
In the tradition of only providing feedback when something is wrong:
I notice that now there is some pretty useless CSS that has been added in the "Activity" box on the main page, that truncates basically every single task title: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F70292620
I don't see any good reason not to show the whole title, even if it is super long. It's a website, not a classified section in a newspaper… Is that something we can disable/override locally, or is it better to report that upstream with Phorge?
tor. 25. sep. 2025 kl. 18:49 skrev Andre Klapper aklapper@wikimedia.org:
I am excited to announce that this is an exciting announcement.
Today the Wikimedia Release Engineering Team deployed a larger software upgrade of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org
You now better enjoy
- Performance improvements:
- Global fulltext Search ignores data of uninstalled Phab apps
- Embedded full size image files are lazy loaded
- Using DNS preconnect for our separate file domain
- Faster rendering of Project Burndown tabular reports
- Search user interface:
- "Advanced Search" renamed to Global Search and application search
- Global Search Scope dropdown: "Current Application" replaced by the actual app name; no more such option when the app does not support global fulltext search
- Maniphest Task Search does not anymore show unused "Packages" and "Owners" when using typeahead in the "Subscribers" search field
- Ctrl+Return in text boxes opens search results in a new tab
- User Profile pages:
- New "Authored Tasks" one-click menu item in sidebar
- Less ambiguous menu item names in sidebar
- Support for images in WebP format as avatars
- (admins only): One-click menu item to view Activity Log of user
- (admins only): User's Two-Factor Auth status shown on profile page
- Project Workboards:
- Those numbers in workboard column headers have now tooltips
- Archived projects are now strike-through in navigation breadcrumbs
- Automated Column Triggers: Allow setting the user who performs the move as task assignee
- Thinner scrollbars in Firefox on Windows
- Importing columns: No more crash when typeahead querying projects and search string is not a project name prefix
- The "Move Tasks" action now requires "Can Bulk Edit Tasks" rights
- Herald automated actions:
- New condition "Acting user's projects" available
- No more "Unknown Object (????)" for custom field values in editor
- General text input:
- No more text suddenly disappearing when writing {{#something:}}
- Stripped surrounding whitespace when entering project or task titles
- Support for "size=thumb" parameter when embedding video files
- Conduit API:
- Support search select fields as constraints, e.g. "Group By" in maniphest.search, project status in project.search, status and hosted in diffusion.repository.search
- Improved documentation of types in transaction.search
- User Preferences:
- Email: No more useless "Audits" section (we uninstalled that app)
- External Accounts: Shows tooltips for buttons
- Multi-Factor Auth: Explains consequences of adding a second factor
- Projects:
- Profile images: Show maximum picture dimensions at uploading
- No more "set this color to Red" message editing archived projects
- No more 404 error on URLs with an alternative hashtag of a milestone
- Project Report Charts:
- Rotated x-axis labels for better readability
- Improved line colors
- Files:
- Support rendering images in WebP format
- List of uploads includes the timestamp, not only the date
- Mobile: Support zooming on pages (e.g. when looking at image files)
- Mobile: Detection of Firefox on Android (to adjust content width)
- Tokens: Allow filtering given tokens by token types
- Wikibugs IRC bot: Report the color of milestones correctly
- (admins only) Allow changing email of bot and mailing list accounts
- Numerous crasher fixes
- Some accessibility improvements (ARIA labels, titles, etc)
- Cleaner CSS (less noise in your browser's Developer Tools' console)
Our Downstream dependency trees of tasks are at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T386558 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T393840
I'd like to thank the Wikimedians BlankEclair, mainframe98, MatmaRex, pppery, taavi, valerio.bozzolan, xtex, who contributed patches to the upstream project at https://we.phorge.it. (Hope I forgot nobody?)
As usual, if you have comments or questions about Phab, please bring them up on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Phabricator/Help !
Cheers, andre (on behalf of the Wikimedia Release Engineering Team)
-- Andre Klapper (he/him) | Bugwrangler https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list -- wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to wikitech-l-leave@lists.wikimedia.org
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Hej hej,
On Wed, 2025-11-19 at 21:14 +0100, Jon Harald Søby wrote:
I notice that now there is some pretty useless CSS
[...]
Is that something we can disable/override locally, or is it better to report that upstream with Phorge?
My fault. I did not test enough. :-/ Internally we call these little bugs "easter eggs" though. Sounds so much better than "regressions"!
More seriously, thanks for the feedback. Yeah, fix is on the way. (Also thanks to p858snake for linking the related ticket.)
Cheers, andre
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