Hey all,

Just a quick note that MediaWiki 1.30 has been branched (REL1_30 started at c3a0f25c040e4f69daba5223393d99a03074b0a0), with version bumped from alpha to 1.30.0-rc.0. As normal, extensions, skins and vendor have also been branched. The RC0 will be released for testing in the coming weeks, once people have had time to back-port fixes.

This means that the train next week will be 1.31.0-wmf.1, master calls itself "1.31.0-alpha", and there's now a RELEASE-NOTES-1.31 file. But please don't merge lots of waiting-for-1.31 patches just yet, because back-porting important changes is a pain, and doing so over the top of RELEASE-NOTES if nothing else is not fun.

Our thanks as always to the brilliant Release Engineering team. :-)

J.