Packages for the MediaWiki 1.31 LTS release are now available for the new Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" release in my PPA. Please let me know if you run into any errors or issues. In the future these packages will be upgraded to the MediaWiki 1.35 LTS release, whenever that's…
The latest #MediaWiki security update has hit #Debian - https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2020/msg00053.htmlOnly buster users need to update as stretch did not contain the vulnerable code (yay?).
The Symfony project has recently created a set of pure-PHP polyfills for both PHP extensions and newer language features. It allows developers to add requirements upon those functions or language additions without increasing the system requirements upon end users. For the most part, I think this is a good thing,…
It's been a relatively productive year for the packaging of Kiwix, an offline Wikipedia reader, in Debian. My minimum expectations for the Buster release scheduled in mid-2019 are that all necessary C/C++ libraries to build the latest versions of Kiwix are in Debian. libzim is at v4.0.4, and basically ready…
Tim is working on a new profiler for PHP, since there are issues with xhprof/tideways that really aren't worth dealing with...and that we can do better in profiling. He's written up some details on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205059, and there's some initial code in our Gerrit.I've done the initial Debian packaging at https://salsa.debian.org/mediawiki-team/php-excimer…
I posted most of my poolcounter #Debian packaging work: https://salsa.debian.org/mediawiki-team/poolcounterThere's one remaining issue with the makefile trying to build poolcounterd twice that should get fixed upstream: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/services/poolcounter/+/463700
