[MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki backup failures due to mysqldump

Hi Everyone, A quick heads up for others in this situation... We attempted to migrate to MW 1.38.6 tonight. Our first step is a manual backup. We found our manual backup (and backups for the last couple of months) have been failing (yuk!): # /sbin/mw-backup Repair wiki database ok mysqldump: Cou

[MediaWiki-l] Security and maintenance release: 1.35.10 / 1.38.6 / 1.39.3

I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.35.10, 1.38.6 and 1.39.3! These releases also serve as a maintenance release for these branches. The tarballs have already been uploaded as of this e-mail, and the git tags have been pushed. A "MediaWiki Extensions Security Release Supplement"

[MediaWiki-l] [BREAKING CHANGE] Internet Explorer 11 will be JavaScript-less starting April 2023

Hello all, Starting in April 2023, MediaWiki will end Grade A support for browsers that do not implement ES6 JavaScript.[0] This mostly affects the small number of Internet Explorer 11 users. A very small number of iOS users who have not upgraded to iOS 10 (released in 2017) are also affected. Us