Greetings, MediaWiki users and developers!
We are now accepting contributions for the 2024 MediaWiki Users and
Developers Conference [0], which will be held April 17-19 in Portland, OR,
USA. The deadline to submit a proposal is March 22. Sign up as soon as
possible at [1].
This will primarily be an in-person conference, however we will consider
remote presentations on a case-by-case basis.The first two days of the
conference will be reserved for presentations. The third day of the
conference will be a Create Camp, which will include tutorials, hands-on
presentations, and small group hacking sessions.
The MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference, formerly EMWCon, brings
together the community that makes up MediaWiki – those who develop for
MediaWiki, those who deploy MediaWiki, and those who use MediaWiki and are
enthusiastic about the software. MediaWiki is used every day in a variety
of contexts – educational projects, corporate knowledge bases, even online
hobbyist communities – all valuing MediaWiki for its flexibility and its
openness. By meeting together we can learn from our experiences and
continue to build a true community of support for MediaWiki.
Looking forward to seeing you in Portland!
- The MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Organizing Committee:
James Hare - Conference Chair
Cindy Cicalese - Program Chair
Bryan Hilderbrand - Registration Chair
Jeffrey Wang - Social Chair
Ike Hecht - Sponsor Chair
Ryan Schmidt - Technology Chair
[0]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Users_and_Developers_Conference_20…
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Users_and_Developers_Conference_20…
On T190369 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190369> we're trying to
complete our collection of old MediaWiki release tarballs.
MediaWiki 1.20.7 was released on September 3, 2013. On December 8,
2013, it was reported that something happened to our download server,
and many files went missing.
Most of the missing files turn out to have been mirrored in once place
or another, but 1.20.7, which was only available for three months at
most, hasn't shown up yet.
Has anyone got a copy? The filename would have been
mediawiki-1.20.7.tar.gz
-- Tim Starling
Hey all,
This is a quick note to highlight that in five weeks' time, the REL1_42
branch will be created for MediaWiki core and each of the extensions and
skins in Wikimedia git, with some (the 'tarball') included as sub-modules
of MediaWiki itself[0]. This is the first step in the release process for
MediaWiki 1.42, which should be out in May 2024, approximately six months
after MediaWiki 1.41.
The branches will reflect the code as of the last 'alpha' branch for the
release, 1.42.0-wmf.26, which will be deployed to Wikimedia wikis in the
week beginning 8 April 2024 for MediaWiki itself and those extensions
and skins available there.
After that point, patches that land in the main development branch of
MediaWiki and its bundled extensions and skins will be instead be slated
for the MediaWiki 1.43 release unless specifically backported[1].
If you are working on a new feature that you wish to land for the release,
you now have a few days to finish your work and land it in the development
branch; feature changes should not be backported except in an urgent case.
If your work might not be complete in time, and yet should block release
for everyone else, please file a task against the `mw-1.42-release` project
on Phabricator.[2]
If you have tickets that are already tagged for `mw-1.42-release`, please
finish them, untag them, or reach out to get them resolved in the next few
weeks.
We hope to issue the first release candidate, 1.42.0-rc.0, two weeks after
the branch point, and if all goes well, to release MediaWiki 1.42.0 a few
weeks after that.
[0]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bundled_extensions_and_skins
[1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Backporting_fixes
[2]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.42-release/
Yours,
--
James D. Forrester (he/him or they/themself)
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi all,
On Thursday we will be issuing a security and maintenance release to all
supported branches of MediaWiki.
The new releases will be:
- 1.39.7
- 1.40.3
- 1.41.1
This will resolve two security issues in MediaWiki core, along with bug
fixes included for maintenance reasons. This includes various patches for
PHP 8.0, 8.1, 8.2 and 8.3 support.
This release may or may not be made with a CVE number formally attached,
due to the recent delays in receiving them from MITRE.
We will make the fixes available in the respective release branches and
master in git. Tarballs will be available for the above mentioned point
releases as well.
A summary of some of the security fixes that have gone into non-bundled
MediaWiki extensions will also follow later.
As a reminder, MediaWiki 1.35 became end of life (EOL) in December 2023.
It is strongly recommended to upgrade to either 1.39 (the next LTS after
1.35), which will be supported until November 2025, 1.40, which will be
supported until June 2024, or 1.41, which will be supported until December
2024.
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_lifecycle
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To participate as a sharer, you can register in this initial registration
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Below, you will find our team of 8 who are excited to meet with you if you
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