Mailing List Archive: MediaWiki 1.34 is End of Life

MediaWiki 1.34 is End of Life

Nov 30, 2020, 2:30 PM

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As per the MediaWiki version lifecycle,[1] I would like to announce the
formal end of life (EOL) of MediaWiki 1.34 as of today, Monday November 30,
2020.

This means that MediaWiki 1.34 will no longer receive maintenance or
security backports. It is therefore strongly discouraged that you continue
to use it.

It is recommended to upgrade to MediaWiki 1.35, the current Long Term
Support (LTS) version which is not due to become EOL until September 2023.
The legacy Long Term Support version of MediaWiki, MediaWiki 1.31, is older
and downgrading is not supported.

MediaWiki 1.35 bumps the required PHP version from 7.2.9 in 1.34 (which is
unsupported upstream), to PHP 7.3.19 or later.

Thanks!

Sam Reed

[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_lifecycle

Re: MediaWiki 1.34 is End of Life [ In reply to ]

noloader at gmail

Nov 30, 2020, 3:26 PM

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On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 5:31 PM Sam Reed <reedy@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> As per the MediaWiki version lifecycle,[1] I would like to announce the formal end of life (EOL) of MediaWiki 1.34 as of today, Monday November 30, 2020.
>
> This means that MediaWiki 1.34 will no longer receive maintenance or security backports. It is therefore strongly discouraged that you continue to use it.
>
> It is recommended to upgrade to MediaWiki 1.35, the current Long Term Support (LTS) version which is not due to become EOL until September 2023. The legacy Long Term Support version of MediaWiki, MediaWiki 1.31, is older and downgrading is not supported.
>
> MediaWiki 1.35 bumps the required PHP version from 7.2.9 in 1.34 (which is unsupported upstream), to PHP 7.3.19 or later.

CentOS 7 recently bumped PHP to version 7.3.20 when the SCL is
enabled. CentOS 7 users with SCL enabled should be OK to migrate to
Mediawiki 1.35.

Also see https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=17826.

Jeff

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Re: MediaWiki 1.34 is End of Life [ In reply to ]

noloader at gmail

Nov 30, 2020, 8:28 PM

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On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 6:26 PM Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 5:31 PM Sam Reed <reedy@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> >
> > As per the MediaWiki version lifecycle,[1] I would like to announce the formal end of life (EOL) of MediaWiki 1.34 as of today, Monday November 30, 2020.
> >
> > This means that MediaWiki 1.34 will no longer receive maintenance or security backports. It is therefore strongly discouraged that you continue to use it.
> >
> > It is recommended to upgrade to MediaWiki 1.35, the current Long Term Support (LTS) version which is not due to become EOL until September 2023. The legacy Long Term Support version of MediaWiki, MediaWiki 1.31, is older and downgrading is not supported.
> >
> > MediaWiki 1.35 bumps the required PHP version from 7.2.9 in 1.34 (which is unsupported upstream), to PHP 7.3.19 or later.
>
> CentOS 7 recently bumped PHP to version 7.3.20 when the SCL is
> enabled. CentOS 7 users with SCL enabled should be OK to migrate to
> Mediawiki 1.35.
>
> Also see https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=17826.

My bad... I just tested CentOS 7 with SCL in my test environment. The
PHP changes for CentOS 7 with SCL has not landed in production. It is
still providing the down-level version of PHP.

$ php --version
PHP 7.3.11 (cli) (built: Dec 10 2019 16:14:50) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group

You should not upgrade to Mediawiki 1.35.

Jeff

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Re: MediaWiki 1.34 is End of Life [ In reply to ]

noloader at gmail

Dec 15, 2020, 2:03 PM

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On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 11:28 PM Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 6:26 PM Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 5:31 PM Sam Reed <reedy@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > As per the MediaWiki version lifecycle,[1] I would like to announce the formal end of life (EOL) of MediaWiki 1.34 as of today, Monday November 30, 2020.
> > >
> > > This means that MediaWiki 1.34 will no longer receive maintenance or security backports. It is therefore strongly discouraged that you continue to use it.
> > >
> > > It is recommended to upgrade to MediaWiki 1.35, the current Long Term Support (LTS) version which is not due to become EOL until September 2023. The legacy Long Term Support version of MediaWiki, MediaWiki 1.31, is older and downgrading is not supported.
> > >
> > > MediaWiki 1.35 bumps the required PHP version from 7.2.9 in 1.34 (which is unsupported upstream), to PHP 7.3.19 or later.
> >
> > CentOS 7 recently bumped PHP to version 7.3.20 when the SCL is
> > enabled. CentOS 7 users with SCL enabled should be OK to migrate to
> > Mediawiki 1.35.
> >
> > Also see https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=17826.
>
> My bad... I just tested CentOS 7 with SCL in my test environment. The
> PHP changes for CentOS 7 with SCL has not landed in production. It is
> still providing the down-level version of PHP.

Red Hat released the PHP 7.3.20 update to production today. It looks
like it is safe to migrate to Mediawiki 1.35.

Also see https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=17826.

Jeff

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