The Release-Engineering-Team of the Wikimedia Foundation just deployed a major upgrade of Wikimedia Phabricator.

It includes numerous changes:

• Performance improvements:
  • Global fulltext Search ignores data of uninstalled Phab applications
  • Embedded full size image files are lazy loaded
  • Using DNS preconnect for https://phab.wmfusercontent.org
  • Faster rendering of Project Burndown tabular reports
• Search user interface:
  • "Advanced Search" renamed to Global Search and application search
  • Global Search Scope dropdown: "Current Application" replaced by the actual application name, no more such option when the application does not support global fulltext searching
  • Global Search Scope dropdown: Support searching in the current application in more Phab applications
  • Maniphest Search does not propose uninstalled Owners or Packages as Subscribers
  • Ctrl+Return in text boxes opens search results in a new tab
• User Profile pages:
  • New "Authored Tasks" one-click menu item in sidebar
  • Less ambiguous menu item names in sidebar
  • Support for images in WebP format as avatars
  • (admins only): One-click menu item to view Activity Log of user
  • (admins only): User's Two-Factor Auth status shown on profile page
• Project Workboards:
  • Strike-through rendering of archived projects in navigation crumbs
  • Tooltips for those numbers in workboard column headers
  • Automated Column Triggers: Allow setting the user who performs the move as task assignee
  • Thinner scrollbars in Firefox on Windows
  • Importing columns: No crash when typeahead querying projects and search string is not a project name prefix
  • "Move Tasks" now requires "Can Bulk Edit Tasks" rights
• Herald automated actions:
  • New condition "Acting user's projects" available
  • No more "Unknown Object (????)" for custom field values in editor
• Text input:
  • No more text suddenly disappearing when writing {{#something:}}
  • Stripped surrounding whitespace when entering project or task titles
  • Support for "size=thumb" parameter when embedding video files
• Conduit API:
  • Support search select fields as constraints, e.g. "Group By" in maniphest.search, project status in project.search, status and hosted in diffusion.repository.search
  • Improved documentation of types in transaction.search
• User Preferences:
  • Email: Hide "Audits" section (we uninstalled the Audits application)
  • External Accounts: Shows tooltips for buttons
  • Multi-Factor Auth: Explains consequences of adding a second factor
• Projects:
  • Profile images: Show maximum picture dimensions at uploading
  • No more "set this color to Red" editing archived projects
  • No more 404 error on URLs which include an alternative hashtag of a milestone
• Project Report Charts:
  • Rotated x-axis labels for better readability
  • Improved line colors
• Files:
  • Support rendering images in WebP format
  • List of uploads includes the timestamp, not only the date
• Mobile: Support zooming on pages (useful when looking at image files)
• Mobile: Better detection of Firefox on Android to adjust content width
• Tokens: Allow filtering given tokens by token types
• Wikibugs IRC bot: Report the color of milestones correctly
• (admins only) Allow changing email address of bot and mailing list accounts
• Numerous crasher fixes
• Accessibility improvements (ARIA labels, titles, etc)
• Cleaner CSS (less noise in your browser's Developer Tools' console)

Downstream dependency tree of tasks: T386558: Update to Phorge upstream 2025.18 release and T393840: Update to Phorge upstream rPca176821 / Arcanist upstream rARCd2d2afd0 (2025-09-08)

Upstream changelog: https://we.phorge.it/w/changelog/2024.35/

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