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{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Signpost-article-header-v2|Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News|By Ral315}}

Last week in MediaWiki software

New functionality

  • Bad images no longer rendered in galleries. (Rob Church)
  • Invalid usernames can now be renamed to valid names. (Brion Vibber)

Interface tweaks

Bug fixes

  • Various double-escaping issues fixed. (Niklas Laxström)
  • Magic word conflicts fixed. (Rob Church)
  • Error message on Special:Confirmemail fixed. (Rob Church)
  • Subtitle navigation works on redirect history pages. (Rob Church)
  • Enforce the standard upper limit when accessing page histories. (Rob Church)

Last week in servers

  • srv117 up; was accidentally uploaded as a duplicate srv116.
  • WikiSpecies moved from species.wikipedia.org to species.wikimedia.org.
  • Titles now allowed in SVG files.


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