[IT-SecNots] [MediaWiki-announce] Re: MediaWiki 1.44-beta has been branched

[Mateus Santos <msantos AT wikimedia.org>]

Correction:

From now on, patches that land in the main development branch of MediaWiki
> and its bundled extensions and skins will be slated for the *MediaWiki
> 1.45 release*, unless specifically backported [1].


On Tue, May 6, 2025 at 9:12 PM Mateus Santos <msantos AT wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> This is a quick note to highlight that we've created the REL1_44 branch
> for MediaWiki core and each of the extensions and skins in Wikimedia git
> [0]. This is the first step in the release process for MediaWiki 1.44.0,
> which should be out in June 2025, approximately six months after MediaWiki
> 1.43.0.
>
> The branches reflect the code as of the last 'alpha' branch for the
> release, 1.44.0-wmf.28, which is being deployed to Wikimedia wikis this
> week for MediaWiki itself and those extensions and skins available there.
>
> From now on, patches that land in the main development branch of MediaWiki
> and its bundled extensions and skins will be slated for the MediaWiki 1.44
> release, unless specifically backported [1].
>
> If you are working on a critical bug fix that will affect the code in the
> release, once the patch has been merged into the development branch, you
> should propose it for backporting by cherry-picking to the REL1_44 branch.
>
> If you are working on a new feature, that should now not be backported. If
> you have an urgent case where the work should block release for everyone
> else, please file a task against the `mw 1.44-release` project on
> Phabricator [2].
>
> If you have tickets that are tagged for `mw-1.44-release`, please finish
> them, untag them, or reach out to get them resolved in the next few days.
>
> We hope to issue the first release candidate, 1.44.0-rc.0, in two weeks'
> time, and if all goes well, to then release MediaWiki 1.44.0 a few weeks
> after that.
>
> [0]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bundled_extensions_and_skins [1]:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Backporting_fixes [2]:
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.44-release/
>
> Best regards, -- Mateus Santos (he/him) Product Manager MediaWiki
> Engineering Group
>
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