If you go to install mediawiki, and have error reporting enabled, the first page you hit (LocalSettings.php is missing) gives the following warnings:
Deprecated: Premature access to service container [Called from TemplateParser::getTemplate in /var/www/html/w/includes/TemplateParser.php at line 115] in /var/www/html/w/includes/debug/MWDebug.php on line 377 Deprecated: Premature access to service 'HookContainer' [Called from MediaWiki\MediaWikiServices::getInstance in /var/www/html/w/includes/MediaWikiServices.php at line 282] in /var/www/html/w/includes/debug/MWDebug.php on line 377 Deprecated: Premature access to service 'ObjectFactory' [Called from Wikimedia\Services\ServiceContainer::{closure} in /var/www/html/w/includes/ServiceWiring.php at line 687] in /var/www/html/w/includes/debug/MWDebug.php on line 377 Deprecated: Premature access to service 'MainConfig' [Called from TemplateParser::getTemplate in /var/www/html/w/includes/TemplateParser.php at line 115] in /var/www/html/w/includes/debug/MWDebug.php on line 377 Deprecated: Premature access to service 'ConfigFactory' [Called from Wikimedia\Services\ServiceContainer::{closure} in /var/www/html/w/includes/ServiceWiring.php at line 906] in /var/www/html/w/includes/debug/MWDebug.php on line 377 Deprecated: Premature access to service 'BootstrapConfig' [Called from Wikimedia\Services\ServiceContainer::{closure} in /var/www/html/w/includes/ServiceWiring.php at line 392] in /var/www/html/w/includes/debug/MWDebug.php on line 377
This is a pretty bad user experience. We should try and fix this before releasing 1.38.