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*Recent changes*

   - [image: Advanced item] In the AbuseFilter
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:AbuseFilter>
extension,
   an ip_in_ranges() function has been introduced to check if an IP is in
   any of the ranges. Wikis are advised to combine multiple
ip_in_range() expressions
   joined by | into a single expression for better performance. You can use
   the search function on Special:AbuseFilter
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter> to locate its
   usage. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T305017>
   - The IP Info feature
   
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/IP_Editing:_Privacy_Enhancement_and_Abuse_Mitigation/IP_Info_feature>
which
   helps abuse fighters access information about IPs, has been deployed
   
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/IP_Editing:_Privacy_Enhancement_and_Abuse_Mitigation/IP_Info_feature#May_24,_2022>
to
   all wikis as a beta feature. This comes after weeks of beta testing on
   test.wikipedia.org.

*Changes later this week*

   -  The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/wmf.14> of
   MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 May. It will be
   on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 June. It will be on all
   wikis from 2 June (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/Roadmap>).
   -  Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch
   of their main database. It will be performed on 31 May at 07:00 UTC
(targeted
   wikis
   <https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s5.dblist>).
   - The New Topic Tool
   
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:DiscussionTools#New_topic_tool>
will
   be deployed for all editors at most wikis soon. You will be able to opt out
   from within the tool and in Preferences
   
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion>
   . [2]
   
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk_pages_project/New_discussion>
   [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T287804>
   - [image: Advanced item] The list=usercontribs API
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ApiHelp/query%2Busercontribs> will
   support fetching contributions from an IP range
   
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Range_blocks#Non-technical_explanation>
soon.
   API users can set the uciprange parameter to get contributions from any
   IP range within the limit
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgRangeContributionsCIDRLimit>.
   [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177150>
   - A new parser function will be introduced: {{=}}. It will replace
   existing templates named "=". It will insert an equal sign
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Equals_sign>. This can be used to
   escape the equal sign in the parameter values of templates. [5]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91154>

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