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I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of MediaWiki
1.38.0-rc.1, the second release candidate for 1.38.0. 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 1500 commits since 1.37.0 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-1.38-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 MediaWiki 1.38 will become final in May 2022, though
the date may slip if blockers are identified.

Changes since MediaWiki 1.38.0-rc.0:
* Localisation updates.
* (T305028) Undeprecate EditPage::$textbox2.
* (T305635) LogActions is a map, not a list.
* (T306721) Add wikimedia/equivset to vendor; needed by bundled AbuseFilter.
* (T307284) Simplify TransactionManager::pendingWriteQueryDuration.
* (T307307) Add symfony/yaml to vendor.
* Fix old_name in UserLogoutComplete hook.
* REST: don't send stack trace in error responses.
* (T307998) SessionManager: stop storing an ObjectFactory instance.
* (T193565) UserGroupManager: Fix dbDomain in addUserToGroup() deferred
update.

Preliminary release notes:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core/+/REL1_38/RELEASE-NOTES-1.38
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.38

Open Bugs:
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.38-release/

Bug report form:
[2]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?tags=MW-1.38-Release

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Download:
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.38/mediawiki-1.38.0-rc.1.tar.gz
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.38/mediawiki-1.38.0-rc.1.zip

Download without bundled extensions:
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.38/mediawiki-core-1.38.0-rc.1.tar.gz
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.38/mediawiki-core-1.38.0-rc.1.zip


Patch to previous version (1.38.0-rc.0):
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.38/mediawiki-1.38.0-rc.1.patch.gz
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.38/mediawiki-1.38.0-rc.1.patch.zip

GPG signatures:
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https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.38/mediawiki-core-1.38.0-rc.1.zip.sig
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.38/mediawiki-1.38.0-rc.1.tar.gz.sig
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.38/mediawiki-1.38.0-rc.1.zip.sig
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.38/mediawiki-1.38.0-rc.1.patch.gz.sig
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.38/mediawiki-1.38.0-rc.1.patch.zip.sig

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