Special:Version: Stop sending the users IP address in a hidden element
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Special:Version shows the IP address of the user. We should remove that as unnecessary and a potential security risk if the output is ever cached
The code is added in rMW4ddf1bdcbe23d9a29f179f39e9bfa6b2648360d8

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The IP address of the user is removed from Special:Version

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	Subject	Author	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	SpecialVersion: Remove code adding users' IP in a HTML comment	Dreamy Jazz	mediawiki/core	master	+0 -12

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Change #1316947 had a related patch set uploaded (by Dreamy Jazz; author: Dreamy Jazz):

[mediawiki/core@master] SpecialVersion: Remove code adding users' IP in a HTML comment

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1316947

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Change #1317458 had a related patch set uploaded (by Dreamy Jazz; author: Dreamy Jazz):

[mediawiki/core@master] [WIP] Test SpecialVersion

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1317458

Pppery moved this task from To triage to Special:Version on the MediaWiki-Special-pages board.Sun, Jul 26, 3:33 PM

Change #1316947 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] SpecialVersion: Remove code adding users' IP in a HTML comment

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1316947

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