MediaWiki/1.38

MediaWiki 1.38 is the latest version of MediaWiki which was released in June 2022. This MediaWiki release offers several new changes that may affect or benefit your workflow. Miraheze plans to upgrade to it soon, in keeping with our commitment of always upgrading to the most up-to-date version of MediaWiki.

Miraheze plans to upgrade to MediaWiki 1.38 on 15 June, 2022 between 20:00 (UTC) and 22:00 (UTC). In anticipation, a few extensions will be removed or changed. Below is a list.

Interface changes

 * Vector is getting a huge update! - After nearly a decade, Vector has reached a huge milestone with Vector 2022! This update to the Vector skin is the biggest ever and will mark a departure from Vector's classic look. The new refreshed skin will replace Vector as the new default for new wikis and will introduce some breaking changes so please be in anticipation for that. For more information, please read Vector 2022's documentation page to prepare for this change.

Extension/Skin removals/changes
We may update this list as more things pop up and will also continue to notify the community of changes we are making in preparation for MediaWiki 1.38. Stay tuned!
 * AddThis will be removed (T7876) - AddThis will be replaced with a more privacy friendly alternative. AddThis also does not function properly in MediaWiki 1.37 and as such will be removed.
 * FancyBoxThumbs will be removed (T9343) - FancyBoxThumbs will be removed due to incompatibility with MediaWiki 1.38. It has not functioned properly since 1.36 and as such will be removed.
 * Foreground (skin) will be removed (T9168) - Foreground will be removed due to incompatibility with MediaWiki 1.38 along with lack of maintenance.
 * GettingStarted will be removed (T8979) - GettingStarted is no longer maintained and has been undeployed from all Wikimedia projects (T292654). We are evaluating whether it's successor, GrowthExperiments, is a feasible alternative to it.
 * MagicNumberedHeadings will be removed (T8897) - A change in MediaWiki code will cause this extension to no longer work on MediaWiki 1.38. No replacement is currently available.
 * Pivot (skin) will be removed (T9340) - Pivot will be removed due to incompatibility with MediaWiki 1.38.
 * Header Footer will be removed (T9357) - Header Footer will be removed due to incompatibility with MediaWiki 1.38.
 * Tabber has been removed (T8899) - Tabber is in the process of being discontinued per T271418 (Wikimedia Phabricator) and is already marked as archived on MediaWiki.org. Due to this and in anticipation for the upgrade to MediaWiki 1.38, we have removed the extension and automatically migrated users of the extension to TabberNeue. No code changes should be required from your part. If pages are broken, try purging the cache.
 * $wgUseCategoryBrowser was replaced by CategoryExplorer (T8798) - A recent change in MediaWiki core code (T298553) removed $wgUseCategoryBrowser from MediaWiki core and moved it into a new extension. Users of the setting were automatically migrated over.