[IT-SecNots] [MediaWiki-announce] MediaWiki 1.37.0-rc.2 is ready for testing

[Sam Reed <reedy AT wikimedia.org>]

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of MediaWiki
1.37.0-rc.2, the second release candidate for 1.37.x. Download links are at
the end of the e-mail. The tag has been signed and pushed to Git.

This is not a final release, and should not be used for production
websites. Known issues are tracked in Phabricator on the release workboard
[1]. As with every release of MediaWiki, a large number of changes have
landed in the last six months (over 1700 commits since 1.36.0 was cut), and
you should read over the preliminary release notes as part of assuring
yourself of areas that may have issues with your configuration, your skins,
and/or your extensions.

As always, please try out the release candidate in a test environment and
do report any issues that you discover. Please use the #MW-1.37-Release [2]
tag in Phabricator when reporting issues specific to this release, to make
sure that we find them as quickly as possible.

It is expected that this will be the final release candidate, and that
MediaWiki 1.37 will become final in late November 2021, though the date may
slip if blockers are identified.

Preliminary release notes:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core/+/REL1_37/RELEASE-NOTES-1.37
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.37

Changes since 1.37.0-rc.1:
* (T295173) Re-add wikimedia/normalized-exception to vendor.
* Remove wikimedia/testing-access-wrapper, psr/simple-cache,
psr/http-factory from vendor.
* (T295191) ApiQuerySiteinfo: Fix "rightsinfo"/"url" when $wgRightsPage is
set.
* (T212428) Allow populateContentTables to continue when there are bad
blobs.

Open Bugs:
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4928/

Bug report form:
[2]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?tags=MW-1.37-Release

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Download:
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-1.37.0-rc.2.tar.gz
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-1.37.0-rc.2.zip

Download without bundled extensions:
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-core-1.37.0-rc.2.tar.gz
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-core-1.37.0-rc.2.zip

Patch to previous version (1.37.0-rc.1):
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-1.37.0-rc.2.patch.gz
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-1.37.0-rc.2.patch.zip

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https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-1.37.0-rc.2.tar.gz.sig
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https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-1.37.0-rc.2.patch.gz.sig
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.37/mediawiki-1.37.0-rc.2.patch.zip.sig

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