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Microsoft Windows Cache aka wincache is IIS's answer to apcu. It has been supported in MediaWiki for object caching since https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T24844. In recent years, this software appears to have fallen into disuse. Both the [[ https://github.com/php/pecl-caching-wincache | GitHub repo ]] and [[ https://pecl.php.net/package/WinCache | PECL package ]] are either listed as archived or inactive for almost a decade. There is a [[ https://sourceforge.net/p/wincache/activity/?page=0&limit=100#5e28b08ee8ba7c5cb5f721aa | SourceForge repo ]] which hosts no sources and has also been inactive since 2020. The official [[ https://www.php.net/manual/en/install.windows.recommended.php | PHP docs ]] note that WinCache is unsupported as of PHP 8; some [[ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1299007/wincache-for-php8-pre-build-available | user-driven builds ]] have popped up but these also seem to have stopped working with more recent PHP 8.x versions. As MediaWiki is preparing to raise the minimum required PHP version to 8.1, this is probably a good time to consider removing WinCache-related code from MediaWiki. **Acceptance Criteria** * WinCache related code is either removed from MediaWiki or a decision is made to keep and maintain it.

Microsoft Windows Cache aka wincache is IIS's answer to apcu. It has been supported in MediaWiki for object caching since {T24844}. In recent years, this software appears to have fallen into disuse. Both the [[ https://github.com/php/pecl-caching-wincache | GitHub repo ]] and [[ https://pecl.php.net/package/WinCache | PECL package ]] are either listed as archived or inactive for almost a decade. There is a [[ https://sourceforge.net/p/wincache/activity/?page=0&limit=100#5e28b08ee8ba7c5cb5f721aa | SourceForge repo ]] which hosts no sources and has also been inactive since 2020. The official [[ https://www.php.net/manual/en/install.windows.recommended.php | PHP docs ]] note that WinCache is unsupported as of PHP 8; some [[ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1299007/wincache-for-php8-pre-build-available | user-driven builds ]] have popped up but these also seem to have stopped working with more recent PHP 8.x versions. As MediaWiki is preparing to raise the minimum required PHP version to 8.1, this is probably a good time to consider removing WinCache-related code from MediaWiki. **Acceptance Criteria** * WinCache related code is either removed from MediaWiki or a decision is made to keep and maintain it.

Microsoft Windows Cache aka wincache is IIS's answer to apcu. It has been supported in MediaWiki for object caching since https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/{T24844}. In recent years, this software appears to have fallen into disuse. Both the [[ https://github.com/php/pecl-caching-wincache | GitHub repo ]] and [[ https://pecl.php.net/package/WinCache | PECL package ]] are either listed as archived or inactive for almost a decade. There is a [[ https://sourceforge.net/p/wincache/activity/?page=0&limit=100#5e28b08ee8ba7c5cb5f721aa | SourceForge repo ]] which hosts no sources and has also been inactive since 2020. The official [[ https://www.php.net/manual/en/install.windows.recommended.php | PHP docs ]] note that WinCache is unsupported as of PHP 8; some [[ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1299007/wincache-for-php8-pre-build-available | user-driven builds ]] have popped up but these also seem to have stopped working with more recent PHP 8.x versions. As MediaWiki is preparing to raise the minimum required PHP version to 8.1, this is probably a good time to consider removing WinCache-related code from MediaWiki. **Acceptance Criteria** * WinCache related code is either removed from MediaWiki or a decision is made to keep and maintain it.