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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

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Written by Aklapper on Jul 15 2025, 4:17 PM.
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