MediaWiki 1.42.4
30 December 2024
MediaWiki version 1.42.4 is now available.
Upgrading to MediaWiki 1.42.4
MediaWiki 1.42.4 can be upgraded to (or installed) using any of Installatron's products. Use Installatron's optional Automatic Update feature to automatically apply MediaWiki updates as new versions are released, or use Installatron's Clone feature to duplicate an existing MediaWiki install to test the 1.42.4 upgrade prior to applying it live. Get started managing your MediaWiki installations with Installatron
What's New in MediaWiki 1.42.4
This is a maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.42 branch.
Bug Fixes and Changes
- Localisation updates.
- installer: Support MW_SKIP_EXTERNAL_DEPENDENCIES in update.php.
- installer: Consistently use double quotes when outputting settings.
- rdbms: Reduce log severity of "found writes pending".
- rdbms: only mention write queries in "writes pending" warnings.
- user: Add recursion guard to APCOND_BLOCKED check in UserGroupManager.
- [DatabaseUpdater] Don't interact with updatelog on virtual domains.
- specials: Avoid passing null to str_replace().
- AutoLoader: Use require_once rather than require.
- SpecialRenameUser: Fix warning display.
- GlobalIdGenerator: Update str_getcsv() call for PHP 8.4.
- Upgrade php-session-serializer from 2.0.1 to 3.0.0.
- Upgrade xmp-reader from 0.9.1 to 0.9.2.
- Upgrade AtEase from 2.1.0 to 3.0.0.
- Add DumpableObjectsTest to the database test group.
- Correct range error in regexp of formatmetadata.
- RefreshLinksJob: Don't retry job if "Revision x is not current" is returned.
- ButtonAuthenticationRequest: Add AllowDynamicProperties directive.