We are delaying the release until after we have fully responded to a recent security audit of MediaWiki by a third-party. This should be completed by next week so the release(s) should happen next week as well (week of Feb 2nd).
(That is the blocking task for those unable to view it: a tracking task for the things found in the security audit.)
We're now beginning the second week since the week of February 2nd, and there still has not been a release.
What's the status of this?
The issues are taking a little more time than expected. I can't give an exact date at this point.
Have the tarballs in question already been rolled and will be recalled, or have they yet to be rolled? Will these version numbers continue to be valid for the next release, or will they be skipped? How will this affect the schedule for following releases (e.g. next week's scheduled release)?
Yet to be created.
Will these version numbers continue to be valid for the next release, or will they be skipped?
No numbers will be skipped.
How will this affect the schedule for following releases (e.g. next week's scheduled release)?
Replace. In other words, the January release effectively was skipped. We won't be doing more than one release a month.
It's now released, so this task can be closed? :)
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-March/000175.html