James or someone, Which internal version are we talking for this change? Is it with the version 1.24wmf7 that went out yesterday? Next week's version? Been there for weeks ...?
If we are going to alert our communities to be aware, knowing the internal version is quite helpful. Regards, Billinghurst On Tue, 3 Jun 2014 16:39:05 -0700, James Forrester <[email protected]> wrote: > *TL;DR:* > ** We have upgraded the version of jQuery in MediaWiki from 1.8.x to > 1.11.x.* > ** For a few months, a hack will keep old users scripts, gadgets etc. > working.* > ** The hack will be removed around September when MediaWiki 1.24 is > released.* > ** Before it is removed, make sure your wiki reviews any scripts and > gadgets.* > > After a long time, we are finally upgrading the jQuery package that ships > with > MediaWiki, and so is used by many extensions, gadgets and site and user > scripts. > This upgrade fixes a lot of bugs, but also cleans up a lot of deprecated > and > dubious functionality from early versions of jQuery. > > Code which uses the removed functionality is currently working due to a > short- > term hack, jQuery Migrate, that provides the removed functionality and > outputs > a warning to the console log whenever it is activated. > > The jQuery Migrate hack will be removed in the (Northern Hemisphere's) > Autumn of > 2014. This means all extensions, gadgets, and user & site scripts on your > wikis > that still make use of jQuery legacy APIs will need to be upgraded before > then > or they will break. > > == What can I do? == > > If you are a developer, please follow the instructions in the posts to > wikitech-l > about how to check and upgrade your wiki's gadgets, site and user scripts > [0] [1]. > If your wiki uses copies of other wikis' gadgets, please make sure that > your wiki > is using the latest version. There is also a tracking bug for all the > extensions > deployed on Wikimedia wikis which use the old code, which will be fixed > before > the support hack is switched off. [2] > > If you are not a developer, you can check your browser's console log to see > if > there are any warnings tagged "JQMIGRATE". If you find any, please raise > them in > your community so you can work together to make sure they are addressed in > time. > > If you are a wikiambassador, please make sure your community is aware of > this > change and that any developers, gadget authors or script experts who write > code > for your wiki know that this is coming and are working to fix any issues. > If your > community is unable to fix any issues you have, please ask for help on this > list > so that we can assist you. > > [0] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-May/076340.html > [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-June/076842.html > [2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65399 > > Yours, _______________________________________________ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
