MediaWiki 1.42.5
5 February 2025
MediaWiki version 1.42.5 is now available.
Upgrading to MediaWiki 1.42.5
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What's New in MediaWiki 1.42.5
This is a maintenance release of the MediaWiki 1.42 branch.
Bug Fixes and Changes
- Localisation updates.
- Update wikimedia/parsoid to 0.19.1.
- PaserTestRunner: Avoid json_decode deprecation warning.
- exception: Convert E_STRICT errors to E_USER_NOTICE.
- session: Do not set session.use_trans_sid.
- $wgDnsBlacklistUrls now defaults to an empty array. See the comment in the "Configuration changes for system administrators" section.
- dumps: Use proc_close() to close proc_open() subprocess.
- MWExceptionHandler: Add error suppression to constant( 'E_STRICT' ).
- FormatMetadata: Prevent running preg_match() on null.
- specialpage: Improve handling of invalid lang codes on login/signup.
- resourceloader: Fix hash computation for virtual files with versionFilePath.
- MultiUsernameFilter: Don't try to split ids if they're not a string.