[IT-SecNots] [MediaWiki-announce] First release candidate for 1.27 (1.27.0-rc.0)

[Chad Horohoe <chorohoe AT wikimedia.org>]

Hello everyone,

I am happy to announce the availability of the first release candidate of
the new MediaWiki 1.27 series!

MediaWiki 1.27 includes all changes released in the smaller 1.27.0-wmf.*
software deployments to Wikimedia sites over six months, totaling
approximately
2800+ commits by around 165 authors. This is a large release that contains
many
new features and bug fixes.

This will be a LTS release, supported until 2019 with security fixes.

This is a summary of the major changes of interest to users and
administrators:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27

You can always consult the RELEASE-NOTES-1.27 file for the full list of
changes in this version.

Full release notes:
*
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_27/RELEASE-NOTES-1.27
* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.27

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Download:
http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.27/mediawiki-1.27.0-rc.0.tar.gz
http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.27/mediawiki-core-1.27.0-rc.0.tar.gz

GPG signatures:
http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.27/mediawiki-core-1.27.0-rc.0.tar.gz.sig
http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.27/mediawiki-1.27.0-rc.0.tar.gz.sig

Public keys:
https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html

-Chad
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