Iterative Improvements (July 2025)
Recent Updates in the Wikimedia Phabricator Codebase
The Release-Engineering-Team of the Wikimedia Foundation just deployed a major upgrade of Wikimedia Phabricator.
You can now enjoy
- collapsing project workboard columns by clicking on their header (allows faster scrolling to the next column on mobile)
- a preview of tasks when pasting a task URI in a web application which supports the Open Graph Protocol
- seeing your personal flags set on tasks in Maniphest search results
- copying the path of a file shown in Diffusion code browsing
- setting workboard column triggers to add or remove subscribers
- the initial value of due dates and story points shown in task history
- ending up on your previous page after "Log In to Comment" (instead of the homepage)
- a warning in the task comment field when it is closed as duplicate
- no more "Unknown Object" shown under "Referenced Files" in tasks
- (admins only) no more getting subscribed when deleting a comment
- (admins only) disabling vandal user accounts from a mobile device
- and a good bunch of other bug fixes.
Downstream dependency tree of tasks: T370266: Update to Phorge upstream 2024.35 release
Upstream changelog: https://we.phorge.it/w/changelog/2024.35/
Apart from that stuff above, we recently also
- fixed incomplete global search results for tasks
- added a more useful error message when fulltext search times out (while we are also looking into Search issues in general)
- made video/mp4 files render inline
If you have comments or questions about Phab, please bring them up on the Phabricator Talk page!
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