[IT-SecNots] [MediaWiki-announce] Maintenance release: MediaWiki 1.42.5

[Sam Reed <reedy AT wikimedia.org>]

I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.42.5!

Thia release primarily serves as a maintenance release for this branch.

It is to fix a vendor issue, as reported in T382783. The version of Parsoid
included in the vendor folder did not match the version in the
composer.json file in MediaWiki core.

Other maintenance bug fixes have also been backported, and will be included
in point releases for other MediaWiki branches (1.39 and 1.43) in the next
security and maintenance release due at the end of March 2025.

The tarballs have already been uploaded as of this email, and the git tags
have been pushed.

Reports of bugs with PHP 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3 and 8.4 support are
particularly welcome, and fixes will be back-ported when possible. Please
see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/php_8.0_support/,
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/php_8.1_support/,
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/php_8.2_support/,
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/php_8.3_support/ and
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/php_8.4_support/ for the relevant
work boards.

As a reminder, MediaWiki 1.35 became end of life (EOL) in December 2023,
MediaWiki 1.40 became EOL in June 2024 and MediaWiki 1.41 became EOL in
December 2024.

It is strongly recommended to upgrade to either 1.42, which will be
supported until June 2025, or to 1.43 (the next LTS after 1.39), which will
be supported until December 2027.

== Links to all mentioned tasks ==

* https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T382783

== Release notes ==

Full release notes for 1.42.5:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_42/RELEASE-NOTES-1.42
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.42

For information about how to upgrade, see
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading

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Download:
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.42/mediawiki-1.42.5.tar.gz
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.42/mediawiki-1.42.5.zip

Download without bundled extensions:
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.42/mediawiki-core-1.42.5.tar.gz
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.42/mediawiki-core-1.42.5.zip

Patch to previous version (1.42.4):
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.42/mediawiki-1.42.5.patch.gz
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.42/mediawiki-1.42.5.patch.zip

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https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.42/mediawiki-1.42.5.tar.gz.sig
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.42/mediawiki-1.42.5.zip.sig
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.42/mediawiki-1.42.5.patch.gz.sig
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.42/mediawiki-1.42.5.patch.zip.sig

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