Exploratory testing on PHP 8.3 for MediaWiki authentication stack
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	Aug 25 2025, 1:41 PM

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See T402597: Exploratory testing on PHP 8.3 for MediaWiki Platform Team components for context. T384232: QA for SUL3 on testwikis has more info on some checklist items.

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Resolved	• matmarex	T317255 PHP's getElementsByTagName is slow prior to PHP 8.3
Resolved	Zabe	T358667 Drop PHP 8.2 support from MediaWiki
Resolved	Jdforrester-WMF	T366644 Raise MediaWiki's MariaDB requirement to 10.6
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Declined	None	T405346 Remove okvpn/clock-lts post WMF PHP 8.3 upgrade
Resolved	Reedy	T405344 Upgrade web-auth/webauthn-lib to >= 5.2.3
Resolved	Krinkle	T358666 Drop PHP 8.1 support from MediaWiki
Resolved	Krinkle	T360995 Migrate Wikimedia production from PHP 8.1 to PHP 8.3
Resolved	Tgr	T402597 Exploratory testing on PHP 8.3 for MediaWiki Platform Team components
Resolved	None	T402804 Exploratory testing on PHP 8.3 for MediaWiki authentication stack
Resolved	• DAlangi_WMF	T403484 Exploratory testing on PHP 8.3 for MediaWiki authentication stack: Login
Resolved	Tgr	T403485 Exploratory testing on PHP 8.3 for MediaWiki authentication stack: Central session
Resolved	• DAlangi_WMF	T403486 Exploratory testing on PHP 8.3 for MediaWiki authentication stack: Signup
Resolved	Tgr	T403487 Exploratory testing on PHP 8.3 for MediaWiki authentication stack: OAuth
Resolved	Tgr	T403488 Exploratory testing on PHP 8.3 for MediaWiki authentication stack: 2FA

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Mostly copied this from T384232: QA for SUL3 on testwikis but I think we can go more lightly on the workflow checks and only check mission-critical workflows and those that we think exercise PHP in an unusual way or cover a lot of otherwise uncovered code.

Tgr updated the task description. (Show Details)Aug 25 2025, 1:44 PM

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Tgr mentioned this in T402597: Exploratory testing on PHP 8.3 for MediaWiki Platform Team components.

Tgr moved this task from Inbox, needs triage to Next (DO NOT USE) on the MediaWiki-Core-Platform-Team board.Aug 25 2025, 2:14 PM

Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE updated the task description. (Show Details)Aug 25 2025, 2:54 PM

Reedy moved this task from Backlog to External on the MediaWiki-extensions-OATHAuth board.Aug 26 2025, 11:45 AM