I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of MediaWiki 1.34.0-rc.0, the first release candidate for 1.34.x. Download links at the end of the e-mail. The tag has been signed and pushed to Git.
Please note that MediaWiki 1.34 no longer supports HHVM, and also the PHP version requirement has been raised from 7.0.13 in MediaWiki 1.33, to 7.2.9.
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 always please do try out the release candidate in a test environment and report any issues that you discover. Please use the #MW-1.34-Release [2] tag in Phabricator when reporting issues specific to this release.
It is expected that MediaWiki 1.34 will become final in the second half of November 2019.
Preliminary release notes: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/source/mediawiki/browse/REL1_34/RELEASE-NO... https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.34
MediaWiki core with bundled extensions: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.34/mediawiki-1.34.0-rc.0.tar.gz
Core only, no extensions: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.34/mediawiki-core-1.34.0-rc.0.tar...
GPG signatures: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.34/mediawiki-core-1.34.0-rc.0.tar... https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.34/mediawiki-1.34.0-rc.0.tar.gz.s...
Public keys: https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html
Open Bugs: [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/3386/
Bug report form: [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?tags=MW-1.34-R...
********************************************************************** Download: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.34/mediawiki-1.34.0-rc.0.tar.gz
Download without bundled extensions: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.34/mediawiki-core-1.34.0-rc.0.tar...
GPG signatures: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.34/mediawiki-core-1.34.0-rc.0.tar... https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.34/mediawiki-1.34.0-rc.0.tar.gz.s...
Public keys: https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html