Correction: >From now on, patches that land in the main development branch of MediaWiki > and its bundled extensions and skins will be slated for the *MediaWiki > 1.45 release*, unless specifically backported [1].
On Tue, May 6, 2025 at 9:12 PM Mateus Santos <msan...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hey all, > > This is a quick note to highlight that we've created the REL1_44 branch > for MediaWiki core and each of the extensions and skins in Wikimedia git > [0]. This is the first step in the release process for MediaWiki 1.44.0, > which should be out in June 2025, approximately six months after MediaWiki > 1.43.0. > > The branches reflect the code as of the last 'alpha' branch for the > release, 1.44.0-wmf.28, which is being deployed to Wikimedia wikis this > week for MediaWiki itself and those extensions and skins available there. > > From now on, patches that land in the main development branch of MediaWiki > and its bundled extensions and skins will be slated for the MediaWiki 1.44 > release, unless specifically backported [1]. > > If you are working on a critical bug fix that will affect the code in the > release, once the patch has been merged into the development branch, you > should propose it for backporting by cherry-picking to the REL1_44 branch. > > If you are working on a new feature, that should now not be backported. If > you have an urgent case where the work should block release for everyone > else, please file a task against the `mw 1.44-release` project on > Phabricator [2]. > > If you have tickets that are tagged for `mw-1.44-release`, please finish > them, untag them, or reach out to get them resolved in the next few days. > > We hope to issue the first release candidate, 1.44.0-rc.0, in two weeks' > time, and if all goes well, to then release MediaWiki 1.44.0 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-1.44-release/ > > Best regards, -- Mateus Santos (he/him) Product Manager MediaWiki > Engineering Group >
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