In Support Desk (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Support_desk) we have at least 3 reports of broken upload functionallity after upgrading to MW 1.23.
Two with error message, that popen is disabled (introduced line 702 in FSFileBackend in REL1_23 https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-core/blob/REL1_23/includes/filebackend/FSFileBackend.php#L702 ):
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Support_desk#Upload_system_differences_between_1.22.7_and_1.23.0_43943
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Support_desk#Cannot_upload_files_since_the_update_from_1.22.7_to_1.23._43983
And this one:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Support_desk#image.2Ffile_upload_broken_after_upgrade_from_MW_1.19_to_MW_1.23_43912
The users can not activate popen, because they are on a shared host. Maybe another solution or an notice in changelog, that popen must be enabled for this and future relases.
Version: 1.23.0
Severity: normal