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I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of MediaWiki 1.37.0-rc.0,
the first release candidate for 1.37.x. Download links are at the end of the
e-mail. The tag has been signed and pushed to Git.
This is not a final release, and should not be used for production websites.
Known issues are tracked in Phabricator on the release workboard [1]. As with
every release of MediaWiki, a large number of changes have landed in the last
six months (over 1700 commits since 1.36.0 was cut), and you should read over
the preliminary release notes as part of assuring yourself of areas that may
have issues with your configuration, your skins, and/or your extensions.
As always, please try out the release candidate in a test environment and do
report any issues that you discover. Please use the #MW-1.37-Release [2] tag
in Phabricator when reporting issues specific to this release, to make sure
that we find them as quickly as possible.
It is expected that MediaWiki 1.37 will become final in November 2021, though
the date may slip if blockers are identified.
Preliminary release notes:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core/+/REL1_37/RELEASE-NOTES-1.37
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.37
Public keys:
https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html
Open Bugs:
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4928/
Bug report form:
[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?tags=MW-1.37-Release
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Download:
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.36/mediawiki-1.37.0-rc.0.tar.gz
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.36/mediawiki-1.37.0-rc.0.zip
Download without bundled extensions:
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.36/mediawiki-core-1.37.0-rc.0.tar.gz
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.36/mediawiki-core-1.37.0-rc.0.zip
GPG signatures:
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.36/mediawiki-core-1.37.0-rc.0.tar.gz.sig
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.36/mediawiki-core-1.37.0-rc.0.zip.sig
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.36/mediawiki-1.37.0-rc.0.tar.gz.sig
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.36/mediawiki-1.37.0-rc.0.zip.sig
Public keys:
https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html
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