[Wikitech-l] mGerrit - Gerrit for Android

2014-04-14 Thread Sam Reed
As we all know, Gerrit doesn't have the best interface, but even more so, it's not very mobile friendly. There is however mGerrit [1] for Android which does a nice job. Also, we're not in the list of default supported Gerrit instannces (yes, I know WikiMedia is in CamelCase, this is already

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Support for PhpStorm

2014-04-14 Thread Sam Reed
There's been discussions before about being able to share code style settings between MediaWiki users for PhpStorm. To this end, I've started a PhpStorm plugin [1] that adds this functionality, allowing preferences to be set from a MediaWiki predefined style. Thanks to Siebrand and Physikerwelt

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google phases out support for IE6

2010-02-02 Thread Sam Reed
And in related news, the BBC have reported [1] that the UK Government have been petitioned to upgrade away from IE6 [2] Sam Reed [1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8492862.stm [2] http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/ie6upgrade/ ___ Wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki security and maintenance release 1.18.2

2012-03-22 Thread Sam Reed
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.18.2. Five security issues were discovered. It was discovered that the api had a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the block/unblock modules. It was possible for a user account with the block privileges to block or unblock

Re: [Wikitech-l] migration guide

2012-04-18 Thread Sam Reed
2012 03:14 To: Wikimedia developers; sance...@free.fr; Sam Reed; Gregory Varnum Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] migration guide On 03/01/2012 06:17 AM, Stéphane ANCELOT wrote: Hi ! I thank you all everybody for your nice job, mediawiki is a great platform. However, as you may know, we are some people

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki maintenance release 1.18.3

2012-04-26 Thread Sam Reed
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.18.3. This release correct issues from the 1.18.2 security release, and also some other bugs. * (bug 35446) Using {{nse:}} with an invalid namespace name no longer throws a PHP warning. * (bug 35567) The whole password reminder e-mail is

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki maintenance release 1.17.4

2012-04-26 Thread Sam Reed
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.17.4. This release correct issues from the 1.17.3 security release, and also some other bugs. * (bug 35961) Hash comparison should always be strict. * Fix broken email confirmation expiration caused by MWCryptRand changes. * (bug 35671) PHP

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.19.0rc1

2012-04-26 Thread Sam Reed
I'm happy to announce the availability of the first release candidate release of the new MediaWiki 1.19 release series. Please test it and let us know what you think of it. Barring new bug reports, this release candidate will soon be released as MediaWiki 1.19.0. Please try it out and let us

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.19.0 released

2012-05-02 Thread Sam Reed
I'm happy to announce the availability of the first stable release of the new MediaWiki 1.19 release series. MediaWiki 1.19 is a large release that contains many new features and bug fixes. This is a summary of the major changes of interest to users. You can consult the RELEASE-NOTES-1.19 file

[Wikitech-l] Wikimedia MediaWiki configuration files are now in a public version control system

2012-05-09 Thread Sam Reed
It has been requested for quite a while to have the Wikimedia site configuration for MediaWiki in a public version control system [1]. This is now done, and can be viewed using gitweb [2]. This essentially means you can do your own shell requests (mostly). This is the same as with MediaWiki

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki security release 1.17.5

2012-06-13 Thread Sam Reed
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.17.5. One security issue was discovered. Both Chris Steipp and Formafix discovered that the uselang http parameter was vulnerable to XSS. For more details, see https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36938 Chris Steipp also improved the

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki security release 1.18.4

2012-06-13 Thread Sam Reed
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.18.4. One security issue was discovered. Both Chris Steipp and Formafix discovered that the uselang http parameter was vulnerable to XSS. For more details, see https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36938 Chris Steipp also improved the

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki security release 1.19.1

2012-06-13 Thread Sam Reed
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.19.1. One security issue was discovered. Both Chris Steipp and Formafix discovered that the uselang http parameter was vulnerable to XSS. For more details, see https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36938 Chris Steipp also improved the

[Wikitech-l] HTML5, it's a coming (again)!

2012-09-05 Thread Sam Reed
It's been a long time coming (for the nth time..), but we're scheduling a deployment of HTML5 across the Wikimedia cluster [1]. This is set for Monday 17th September at 18:00-20:00 UTC [2]. The intention is to set $wgHtml5 [3] to true everywhere. It's been running on MediaWiki.org and our 2

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.20 release candidate

2012-09-26 Thread Sam Reed
Krinkle krinklemail at gmail.com writes: On Sep 22, 2012, at 10:54 PM, Mark A. Hershberger mah at everybody.org wrote: On 09/22/2012 02:50 PM, Krinkle wrote: On Sep 21, 2012, at 4:13 PM, Mark A. Hershberger mah at everybody.org wrote: That commit is not included. I can merge it in

Re: [Wikitech-l] New gadget

2011-03-22 Thread Sam Reed
I really need to sort out how I receive mailing list, rather than just digests Just tested it, literally copy pasting the gadget into one of the existing CR JS files (granted, if/when committed it should be its own file), refresh CR, and it works. Should be easy to put in our SVN, no? ;)

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki security and maintenance release 1.18.1

2012-01-11 Thread Sam Reed
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.18.1. One security issue was discovered. Roan Kattouw discovered an issue with the API, where prop=revisions would expose deleted text to unprivileged users through cache pollution. For more details, see

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki security release 1.17.2

2012-01-11 Thread Sam Reed
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.17.2. One security issue was discovered. Roan Kattouw discovered an issue with the API, where prop=revisions would expose deleted text to unprivileged users through cache pollution. For more details, see

[Wikitech-l] Bump of minimum required PHP version to 5.3 for MediaWiki 1.20

2012-02-20 Thread Sam Reed
Sooo. Here we are again, looking at PHP version bumps. Our current minimum version is 5.2.3, released in June 2009 (5.2.0 was November 2006). I'm proposing to at least bump to version 5.3.0 (as the minimal), release back in June 2006. Though a higher point release would be acceptable if

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.19.0beta1

2012-03-07 Thread Sam Reed
I'm happy to announce the availability of the first beta release of the new MediaWiki 1.19 release series. Please try it out and let us know what you think. Don't run it on any wikis that you really care about, unless you are both very brave and very confident in your MediaWiki administration

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.18 release plans

2011-10-26 Thread Sam Reed
I was planning on working on the 1.18 release last week, however most of my time was absorbed with Contest related work, meaning this didn't happen. As of writing this email, there are 27 outstanding revisions tagged as 1.18 [1]. 26 are new, one is fixme. All revisons don't have to be merged

Re: [Wikitech-l] For your enjoyment: Localisation team development showcase

2011-10-31 Thread Sam Reed
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Localisation-team-showcase-20111031.ogv Needs a license, description etc ;) From: brion.vib...@gmail.com [mailto:brion.vib...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Brion Vibber Sent: 31 October 2011 23:43 To: Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) Cc:

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.18 beta 1

2011-11-04 Thread Sam Reed
I'm happy to announce the availability of the first beta release of the new MediaWiki 1.18 release series. Please try it out and let us know what you think. Don't run it on any wikis that you really care about, unless you are both very brave and very confident in your MediaWiki

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Release Candidate 1.18.0rc 1

2011-11-17 Thread Sam Reed
I'm happy to announce the availability of the first release candidate of the new MediaWiki 1.18 release series. Please try it out and let us know what you think. Don't run it on any wikis that you really care about, unless you are both very brave and very confident in your MediaWiki

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki security release 1.17.1

2011-11-28 Thread Sam Reed
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.17.1. Two security issues were discovered. Alexandre Emsenhuber discovered an issue where page titles on private wikis could be exposed bypassing different page ids to index.php. In the case of the user not having correct permissions, they will

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.18.0 released

2011-11-28 Thread Sam Reed
We are proud to announce the first stable release of the 1.18 series.   * What's new? *   MediaWiki 1.18 brings the usual host of

[Wikitech-l] Special:AllPages (temporarily) disabled on all wikis

2017-03-20 Thread Sam Reed
Due to an outage on enwiki earlier today caused by Special:AllPages, it has temporarily been disabled on all wikis pending further investigation. To this extent a public tracking task [1] has been created, and updates will be put there to keep people in the loop. Proper incident should appear

[Wikitech-l] Increase MediaWiki minimum supported MySQL version to 5.5

2017-04-11 Thread Sam Reed
[Crossposted to wikitech-l and mediawiki-l] MediaWiki supports MySQL 5.0.3 (which was released back in 2005-03-23), and this is somewhat of a blocker to MediaWiki development, and is also meaning we're missing out on taking for granted that various features will be there for use. Or having to

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: Security pre-release announcement: 1.29.2 / 1.28.3 / 1.27.4

2017-11-13 Thread Sam Reed
master. Tarballs will be available for the above mentioned point releases as well. 1.28 was previously announced as end of life, but 1.28.3 will be the final security and maintenance release barring any unforeseen issues. This security release includes fixes for MediaWiki core. --- Sam Reed

[Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki-announce] Security release: 1.29.2 / 1.28.3 / 1.27.4

2017-11-18 Thread Sam Reed
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.29.2, 1.28.3 and 1.27.4! These releases fix nine security issues in core and one related issue in the vendor folder. Download links are given at the end of this email. Patches will be pushed to gerrit after this email is sent, and will land

[Wikitech-l] Security release: 1.29.2 / 1.28.3 / 1.27.4

2017-11-14 Thread Sam Reed
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.29.2, 1.28.3 and 1.27.4! These releases fix nine security issues in core and one related issue in the vendor folder. Download links are given at the end of this email. Patches will be pushed to gerrit after this email is sent, and will land

[Wikitech-l] Security pre-release announcement: 1.27.5 / 1.29.3 / 1.30.1 / 1.31.1

2018-09-19 Thread Sam Reed
. This security release includes fixes for MediaWiki core. --- Sam Reed ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Security release: 1.27.5 / 1.29.3 / 1.30.1 / 1.31.1

2018-09-20 Thread Sam Reed
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.31.1, 1.30.1, 1.29.3 and 1.27.5! These releases fix 4 security issues in core and also includes some previously committed to git minor security and hardening patches. Download links are given at the end of this email. Patches will be pushed to

[Wikitech-l] Maintenance release: 1.27.7

2019-06-06 Thread Sam Reed
Unfortunately a couple of issues have been noticed with MediaWiki 1.27.6. * Whilst back-porting patches to 1.27, a required use statement was missed from LogEventsList.php as it already existed in newer versions of MW. * Some broken tests added in ApiBlockTest were removed. MediaWiki 1.27.7

[Wikitech-l] Security pre-release announcement: 1.27.6 / 1.30.2 / 1.31.2 / 1.32.2

2019-06-05 Thread Sam Reed
any unforeseen issues. 1.27.6 will also be the final release for 1.27 (barring any unforeseen issues), which is scheduled to become end of life in June 2019 [1]. This security release includes fixes for MediaWiki core. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_lifecycle --- Sam Reed

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.33.0-rc.0 is ready for testing

2019-06-07 Thread Sam Reed
I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of MediaWiki 1.33.0-rc.0, the first release candidate for 1.33.x. Download links at the end of the e-mail. The tag has been signed and pushed to Git. This is not a final release and should not be used for production websites. Known issues are

[Wikitech-l] Security and maintenance release: 1.27.6 / 1.30.2 / 1.31.2 / 1.32.2

2019-06-06 Thread Sam Reed
Hi all, I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.32.2, 1.31.2, 1.30.2 and 1.27.6! These releases fix 11 security issues in core (not 12 as reported in the pre-release announcement. This was a mistake, sorry!) and also includes some previously committed to git as minor security and

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.27 and 1.30 are now End-of-Life

2019-06-06 Thread Sam Reed
Hello! Just to make this explicit and not hidden in the depth of the 1.27.6/1.30.2/1.31.2/1.32.2 release announcement - MediaWiki 1.27 and 1.30 are now End-of-Life (EOL) as of Today and are therefore no longer supported. MediaWiki 1.27 has been slated to become EOL in June 2019 [1], and

[Wikitech-l] Announcing MediaWiki 1.33.0

2019-07-02 Thread Sam Reed
Hi all! I am happy to announce the availability of the general release of MediaWiki 1.33! Git tags have been pushed, and tarballs have been uploaded. Thanks to everyone who helped out with this release, especially thanks to those who tested out the release candidates and provided feedback, as

[Wikitech-l] Maintenance release: 1.31.3 and 1.32.3

2019-07-02 Thread Sam Reed
Hi all, I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.32.3 and 1.31.3. These releases primarily fixes two issues that were causing some users problems when using composer and when upgrading from older versions of MediaWiki if they were using the SQLite database backend. Some other minor

[Wikitech-l] GitHub's "Automated Security Fixes" have been disabled on the Wikimedia Org

2019-11-08 Thread Sam Reed
Just a heads up that "Automated Security Fixes" have been disabled on the Wikimedia GitHub org. See [1] The reason for this is that it generates pull requests on non canonical repositories (ie where Gerrit is the default development location) that require developers to close them. If this is a

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

2019-11-05 Thread Sam Reed
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

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.34.0-rc.0 is ready for testing

2019-10-15 Thread Sam Reed
I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of MediaWiki 1.34.0-rc.0, the first release 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

[Wikitech-l] Maintenance release: 1.31.5 and 1.32.5

2019-10-15 Thread Sam Reed
Hi all, I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.32.5 and 1.31.5. These releases primarily fix an issue in the backported security patch for T230402. This wasn't compatible with 1.32 and 1.31 as is, so modifications were required. It was fine for 1.33, hence no followup release for

[Wikitech-l] Security and maintenance release: 1.31.4 / 1.32.4 / 1.33.1

2019-10-07 Thread Sam Reed
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.33.1, 1.32.4 and 1.31.4! In a change to normal proceedings, the security patches are already merged to the various branches. This was due to the low severity of the patches. This is therefore the reason no pre-release announcement was sent. It

[Wikitech-l] Announcing MediaWiki 1.34.0

2019-12-19 Thread Sam Reed
I am happy to announce the availability of the general release of MediaWiki 1.34! While tarballs have already been uploaded, git tags will follow later on today. Thanks to everyone who helped out with this release, especially thanks to those who tested out the release candidates and provided

[Wikitech-l] Security and maintenance release: 1.31.6 / 1.32.6 / 1.33.12

2019-12-19 Thread Sam Reed
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.33.2, 1.32.6 and 1.31.6! These releases also serve as a maintenance release for these branches. While tarballs have already been uploaded, git tags will follow later on today. As a reminder, 1.32.6 will also be the final release for 1.32

[Wikitech-l] Security pre-release announcement: 1.30.6 / 1.32.6 / 1.33.2 / 1.34.0

2019-12-18 Thread Sam Reed
Hi all, Tomorrow we will be issuing a security and maintenance release to all supported branches of MediaWiki. It will also coincide with the with formal release of 1.34.0, which has been a little bit delayed due to the US holidays and the Wikimedia Technical Conference whilst the last few

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.32 is End of Life

2020-01-23 Thread Sam Reed
. Thanks! Sam Reed [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_lifecycle ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Security pre-release announcement: 1.31.7 / 1.33.3 / 1.34.1

2020-03-25 Thread Sam Reed
Hi all, Tomorrow we will be issuing a security and maintenance release to all supported branches of MediaWiki. The new releases will be: - 1.34.1 - 1.33.3 - 1.31.7 This will resolve two minor issues in MediaWiki core, and also includes some fixes previously committed to git, including minor

[Wikitech-l] Security and maintenance release: 1.31.7 / 1.33.3 / 1.34.1

2020-03-26 Thread Sam Reed
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.34.1, 1.33.3 and 1.31.7! These releases also serve as a maintenance release for these branches. We've noted that these issues are minor, and as such you don't need to apply them as quickly as with other security releases, if you're unable to do

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.35.0-rc.3 is ready for testing

2020-09-04 Thread Sam Reed
I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of MediaWiki 1.35.0-rc.3, the fourth (and hopefully final; only minor documentation and packaging changes are expected) release candidate for 1.35.x, the next LTS version to replace 1.31 which is due to go end of life in June 2021. Download links

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.35.0-rc.2 is ready for testing

2020-08-21 Thread Sam Reed
I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of MediaWiki 1.35.0-rc.2, the third release candidate for 1.35.x, the next LTS version to replace 1.31 which is due to go end of life in June 2021. Download links at the end of the e-mail. The tag has been signed and pushed to Git. Please note

[Wikitech-l] Security pre-release announcement: 1.31.9 / 1.34.3 / 1.35.0

2020-09-23 Thread Sam Reed
Hi all, Tomorrow we will be issuing a security and maintenance release to all supported branches of MediaWiki. The new releases will be: - 1.34.3 - 1.31.9 This will resolve eight issues in MediaWiki core (two of which aren't applicable to MediaWiki 1.31), and also includes some fixes

Re: [Wikitech-l] Security and maintenance release: 1.31.9 / 1.34.3

2020-09-24 Thread Sam Reed
hours. On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 at 16:05, Sam Reed wrote: > I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.34.3, and 1.31.9! > > These releases also serve as a maintenance release for these branches. > > While tarballs have already been uploaded, git tags will follow l

[Wikitech-l] Maintenance release: 1.31.10 / 1.34.4

2020-09-24 Thread Sam Reed
The 1.31.10 and 1.34.4 versions fix the issue with the backports in the 1.31.9 and the 1.34.3 releases. The patches linked here need applying on top of the previous patches for 1.31.9 and 1.34.3. See the previous email for those patches. The full downloads here contain all the previous fixes from

[Wikitech-l] Announcing MediaWiki 1.35.0

2020-09-25 Thread Sam Reed
I am happy to announce the belated availability of the general release of MediaWiki 1.35! Tarballs have already been uploaded, and the git tag has been pushed. Thanks to everyone who helped out with this release, especially thanks to those who tested out the release candidates and provided

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.31.10 patching issues

2020-09-25 Thread Sam Reed
Hello all, Sorry for the numerous emails on this usually quiet mailing list. It came to our attention that the 1.31.10 patch doesn't apply ontop of the 1.31.9 patch [1]. This was due to the diff patches being created ignoring whitespace, which we are slightly surprised this hasn't bitten us

[Wikitech-l] Security and maintenance release: 1.31.9 / 1.34.3

2020-09-24 Thread Sam Reed
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.34.3, and 1.31.9! These releases also serve as a maintenance release for these branches. While tarballs have already been uploaded, git tags will follow later on today. An "MediaWiki Extensions Security Release Supplement" email will follow

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.35.0-rc.1 is ready for testing

2020-08-07 Thread Sam Reed
I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of MediaWiki 1.35.0-rc.1, the second release candidate for 1.35.x, the next LTS version to replace 1.31 which is due to go end of life in June 2021. Download links at the end of the e-mail. The tag has been signed and pushed to Git. Please note

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.35.0-rc.0 is ready for testing

2020-07-31 Thread Sam Reed
I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of MediaWiki 1.35.0-rc.0, the first release candidate for 1.35.x, the next LTS version to replace 1.31 which is due to go end of life in June 2021. Download links at the end of the e-mail. The tag has been signed and pushed to Git. Please note

[Wikitech-l] Security pre-release announcement: 1.31.8 / 1.33.4 / 1.34.2

2020-06-23 Thread Sam Reed
Hi all, Tomorrow we will be issuing a security and maintenance release to all supported branches of MediaWiki. The new releases will be: - 1.34.2 - 1.33.4 - 1.31.8 This will resolve one minor issue in MediaWiki core, and also includes some fixes previously committed to git, including minor

[Wikitech-l] Security and maintenance release: 1.31.8 / 1.33.4 / 1.34.2

2020-06-24 Thread Sam Reed
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.34.2, 1.33.4 and 1.31.8! These releases also serve as a maintenance release for these branches. We've noted that this is minor, and as such you don't need to apply them as quickly as with other security releases, if you're unable to do so, or

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.33 is End of Life

2020-06-24 Thread Sam Reed
next LTS (MediaWiki 1.35) is currently due to be released in early August 2020, and will be supported until at least June 2023. MediaWiki 1.34 bumps the required PHP version from 7.0 in 1.33 (which is unsupported upstream), to PHP 7.2.9 or later. Thanks! Sam Reed [1] https://www.mediawiki.org

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.34 is End of Life

2020-11-30 Thread Sam Reed
the required PHP version from 7.2.9 in 1.34 (which is unsupported upstream), to PHP 7.3.19 or later. Thanks! Sam Reed [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_lifecycle ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikitech-l] Security and maintenance release: 1.31.11 / 1.35.1

2020-12-17 Thread Sam Reed
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.31.11 and 1.35.1! These releases also serve as a maintenance release for these branches. Numerous fixes have been backported into 1.35, including some for PHP 8.0 support (though we are not declaring full PHP 8.0 support yet). T268894 doesn't

[Wikitech-l] Maintenance release: 1.31.12

2020-12-17 Thread Sam Reed
The 1.31.12 version fixes the issue with the backports in the 1.31.11 release. The patches linked here need applying on top of the previous patches for 1.31.11. See the previous email for those patches. The full downloads here contain all the previous fixes from the security and maintenance

[Wikitech-l] Security pre-release announcement: 1.31.11 / 1.35.1

2020-12-16 Thread Sam Reed
Hi all, Tomorrow we will be issuing a security and maintenance release to all supported branches of MediaWiki. The new releases will be: - 1.31.11 - 1.35.1 This will resolve 5 issues in MediaWiki core (1 of which isn't applicable to MediaWiki 1.31 at all), and also includes some fixes

[Wikitech-l] Security pre-release announcement: 1.31.15 / 1.35.3 / 1.36.1

2021-06-22 Thread Sam Reed
Hi all, Tomorrow we will be issuing a security and maintenance release to all supported branches of MediaWiki. The new releases will be: - 1.31.15 - 1.35.3 - 1.36.1 This will resolve 1 minor issue in MediaWiki core and also includes some fixes previously committed to git, including minor

[Wikitech-l] Security and maintenance release: 1.31.15 / 1.35.3 / 1.36.1

2021-06-23 Thread Sam Reed
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.31.15, 1.35.3 and 1.36.1! These releases also serve as a maintenance release for these branches. While tarballs have already been uploaded, git tags will follow later on today. An "MediaWiki Extensions Security Release Supplement" email will

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.31 will soon be End-of-Life

2021-05-18 Thread Sam Reed
Hello all, I wanted to send a heads-up to various places that MediaWiki 1.31, the legacy LTS release, will be End-of-Life as of next month, June 2021.[0] There will be a final release to follow-on from the current latest version 1.31.14 coming out in June, but it may have slipped people's mind

[Wikitech-l] Announcing MediaWiki 1.36.0

2021-05-27 Thread Sam Reed
I am happy to announce the availability of the general release of MediaWiki 1.36! Tarballs have already been uploaded, and the git tag has been pushed. Please note that MediaWiki 1.36 now requires the PHP internationalization extension, commonly referred to as Intl, ext-intl, or php-intl. As a

[Wikitech-l] Security pre-release announcement: 1.31.13 / 1.35.2

2021-04-07 Thread Sam Reed
Hi all, Tomorrow we will be issuing a security and maintenance release to all supported branches of MediaWiki. This has been delayed by a week versus the usual schedule, as making a security last week on 1st April ("April Fools") was deemed not a great idea. The new releases will be: - 1.31.13

[Wikitech-l] Security and maintenance release: 1.31.13 / 1.35.2

2021-04-08 Thread Sam Reed
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.31.13 and 1.35.2! These releases also serve as a maintenance release for these branches. Numerous fixes have been backported into 1.35, including some for PHP 8.0 support (though we are not declaring full PHP 8.0 support yet). This is the first

[Wikitech-l] Maintenance release: 1.31.14

2021-04-08 Thread Sam Reed
The 1.31.14 version fixes an issue with the backports in the 1.31.13 release. The patches linked here need applying on top of the previous patches for 1.31.12. See the previous email for those patches. The full downloads here contain all the previous fixes from the security and maintenance

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.37.0-rc.0 is ready for testing

2021-10-21 Thread Sam Reed
I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of MediaWiki 1.37.0-rc.0, the first release candidate for 1.37.x. Download links are at the end of the e-mail. The tag has been signed and pushed to Git. This is not a final release, and should not be used for production websites. Known issues

[Wikitech-l] Security pre-release announcement: 1.31.16 / 1.35.4 / 1.36.2

2021-09-29 Thread Sam Reed
Hi all, Tomorrow we will be issuing a security and maintenance release to all supported branches of MediaWiki. The new releases will be: - 1.31.16 - 1.35.4 - 1.36.2 This will resolve 3 issues in MediaWiki core and also includes some fixes previously committed to git, including minor security

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.31 is End of Life

2021-09-29 Thread Sam Reed
7.0 in 1.31 (which is unsupported upstream), to PHP 7.3.19 or later. Thanks! Sam Reed [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_lifecycle ___ Wikitech-l mailing list -- wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to wikitech-l-le

[Wikitech-l] Security and maintenance release: 1.31.16 / 1.35.4 / 1.36.2

2021-09-30 Thread Sam Reed
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.31.16, 1.35.4 and 1.36.2! These releases also serve as a maintenance release for these branches. This is the final release of the 1.31 branch, and it is considered EOL as of today, September 30, 2021. While tarballs have already been uploaded,

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.37.0-rc.2 is ready for testing

2021-11-10 Thread Sam Reed
I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of MediaWiki 1.37.0-rc.2, the second release candidate for 1.37.x. Download links are at the end of the e-mail. The tag has been signed and pushed to Git. This is not a final release, and should not be used for production websites. Known issues

[Wikitech-l] Announcing MediaWiki 1.37.0

2021-11-18 Thread Sam Reed
I am happy to announce the availability of the general release of MediaWiki 1.37! Tarballs have already been uploaded, and the git tag has been pushed. Please note that MediaWiki 1.37 (as did 1.36) now requires the PHP internationalization extension, commonly referred to as Intl, ext-intl, or

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.37.0-rc.1 is ready for testing

2021-11-04 Thread Sam Reed
I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of MediaWiki 1.37.0-rc.1, the second release candidate for 1.37.x. Download links are at the end of the e-mail. The tag has been signed and pushed to Git. This is not a final release, and should not be used for production websites. Known issues

[Wikitech-l] Security and maintenance release: 1.35.5 / 1.36.3 / 1.37.1

2021-12-15 Thread Sam Reed
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.35.5, 1.36.3 and 1.37.1! This release fixes multiple high severity authorization bypasses in MediaWiki core that both allow for reading private wikis and editing arbitrary pages on any wiki. If you do not have time to upgrade right away, please

[Wikitech-l] Security pre-release announcement: 1.35.5 / 1.36.3 / 1.37.1

2021-12-13 Thread Sam Reed
Hi all, On Wednesday we will be issuing a security and maintenance release to all supported branches of MediaWiki. The new releases will be: - 1.35.5 - 1.36.3 - 1.37.1 This release includes fixes for multiple high severity authorization bypasses in MediaWiki core, it is recommended you patch

[Wikitech-l] Security pre-release announcement: 1.35.6 / 1.36.4 / 1.37.2

2022-03-30 Thread Sam Reed
Hi all, On Thursday we will be issuing a security and maintenance release to all supported branches of MediaWiki. The new releases will be: - 1.35.6 - 1.36.4 - 1.37.2 This will resolve four issues in MediaWiki core and also includes some fixes previously committed to git, including minor

[Wikitech-l] Security and maintenance release: 1.35.6 / 1.36.4 / 1.37.2

2022-03-31 Thread Sam Reed
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.35.6, 1.36.4 and 1.37.2! These releases also serve as a maintenance release for these branches. This is expected to be the final release in the 1.36 branch, which is due to become EOL as of the end of May 2022. While tarballs have already been

[Wikitech-l] Security and maintenance release: 1.35.12 / 1.39.5 / 1.40.1

2023-09-28 Thread Sam Reed
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.35.12, 1.39.5 and 1.40.1! These releases also serve as a maintenance release for these branches. The tarballs have already been uploaded as of this email, and the git tags have been pushed. Unfortunately at the time of finalising this release,

[Wikitech-l] Maintenance release: MediaWiki 1.35.13

2023-09-28 Thread Sam Reed
I would like to announce the availability of MediaWiki 1.35.13 This fixes an issue identified in the MediaWiki 1.35.13 release. The patch for T341529 was incorrectly back-ported, which would result in an error relating to some diffs. If you use git tags, 1.35.12 and 1.35.13 are basically

[Wikitech-l] Security pre-release announcement: 1.35.12 / 1.39.5 / 1.40.1

2023-09-27 Thread Sam Reed
Hi all, On Thursday we will be issuing a security and maintenance release to all supported branches of MediaWiki. The new releases will be: - 1.35.12 - 1.39.5 - 1.40.1 This will resolve four security issues in MediaWiki core, two in a bundled skin, along with bug fixes included for maintenance

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.38.0-rc.0 is ready for testing

2022-04-20 Thread Sam Reed
I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of MediaWiki 1.38.0-rc.0, the first release candidate for 1.38.0. Download links are at the end of the e-mail. The tag has been signed and pushed to Git. This is not a final release, and should not be used for production websites. Known issues

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.38.0-rc.1 is ready for testing

2022-05-20 Thread Sam Reed
I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of MediaWiki 1.38.0-rc.1, the second release candidate for 1.38.0. Download links are at the end of the e-mail. The tag has been signed and pushed to Git. This is not a final release, and should not be used for production websites. Known issues

[Wikitech-l] Announcing MediaWiki 1.38.0

2022-06-02 Thread Sam Reed
I am happy to announce the availability of the general release of MediaWiki 1.38! Tarballs have already been uploaded, and the git tag has been pushed. MediaWiki 1.38 will be supported until June 2023. MediaWiki 1.39, the next LTS, is due to be released in November 2022. === Changes since

[Wikitech-l] Maintenance release: MediaWiki 1.37.4

2022-07-08 Thread Sam Reed
I would like to announce the availability of MediaWiki 1.37.4. This primarily fixes an issue identified in the MediaWiki 1.37.3 release. The incorrect version of guzzlehttp/guzzle was included in the tarball (and git repo) vendor, meaning that update.php would not run successfully. It also

[Wikitech-l] Security and maintenance release: 1.35.7 / 1.37.3 / 1.38.2

2022-06-30 Thread Sam Reed
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.35.7, 1.37.3 and 1.38.2! There was no pre-release announcement as the security fixes being included are low risk XSS vulnerabilites that aren't exploitable in the default MediaWiki config. The patches have also been committed to git for a while.

[Wikitech-l] Maintenance release: MediaWiki 1.38.1

2022-06-06 Thread Sam Reed
I would like to announce the availability of MediaWiki 1.38.1. This fixes a couple of issues identified in the MediaWiki 1.38.0 release, and I apologise that they weren't caught in the release candidates. Thanks to all the people that reported the composer.lock issues relating to

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.36 is End of Life

2022-06-03 Thread Sam Reed
to use it. It is recommended to upgrade either to MediaWiki 1.37, which will be supported until November 2022 or to 1.38 (released yesterday), which will be supported until June 2023. Thanks! Sam Reed [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_lifecycle

[Wikitech-l] Security pre-release announcement: 1.35.8 / 1.37.5 / 1.38.3

2022-09-28 Thread Sam Reed
Hi all, On Thursday we will be issuing a security and maintenance release to all supported branches of MediaWiki. The new releases will be: - 1.35.8 - 1.37.5 - 1.38.3 This will resolve three low priority issues in MediaWiki core along with bug fixes included for maintenance reasons. This

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.39.0-rc.0 is ready for testing

2022-09-23 Thread Sam Reed
I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of MediaWiki 1.39.0-rc.0, the first release candidate for 1.39.0, the next LTS after MediaWiki 1.35. Download links are at the end of the e-mail. The tag has been signed and pushed to Git. This is not a final release, and should not be used for

[Wikitech-l] Maintenance release: MediaWiki 1.37.6 and 1.38.4

2022-09-29 Thread Sam Reed
I would like to announce the availability of MediaWiki 1.37.6 and 1.38.4. This fixes an issue identified in the MediaWiki 1.37.5 and 1.38.3 releases. The patch for T307278 was incorrectly back-ported, which would result in an error when rollbacks happened. To try and reduce the likelihood of

[Wikitech-l] Security and maintenance release: 1.35.8 / 1.37.4 / 1.38.3

2022-09-29 Thread Sam Reed
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.35.8, 1.37.5 and 1.38.3! These releases also serve as a maintenance release for these branches. The tarballs have already been uploaded as of this e-mail; the git tags will follow later on today. A "MediaWiki Extensions Security Release

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