This is a summary of recent technology and site configuration changes that affect the English Wikipedia. Note that not all changes described here are live as of press time; the English Wikipedia is currently running version 1.43.0-wmf.13 (8eaf4e5), and changes with a version number higher than that will not yet be active.

Fixed bugs

• Visiting Special:Search by manually entering a URL with a blank search string now redirects to Special:Search rather than Main Page. ( r24207, bug 8054)
• There was a fix for CSS validity in the way the stylesheet for <source> tags was included. ( r24208, bug 10594)
• A configuration issue causing occasional problems with CAPTCHAs and other image processing-related tasks was fixed. ( bug 10610)
• Some code related to Opera browsers was corrected so that styles for correcting rendering in older versions of the browser were correctly applied to version 9.2 but not to 9.5. ( r24270, bug 10638)
• The code for selecting multiple checkboxes by clicking on the first and shift-clicking on the last (on pages like Special:Watchlist/edit and Special:Undelete) has been made more portable (i.e. it now works correctly on a wider range of browsers), and its behaviour in some unusual cases has been improved. ( r24272, bug 10642)

New features

• Special:ProtectedPages now specifies whether pages are cascade protected or not. ( r24195, bug 10614)
• A warning now appears when illegal characters are given in the 'Destination filename' box at the image upload form. ( r24241, bug 10631)

Other technology news

• The Python Wikipediabot Framework is now being stored on Wikimedia servers, at http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/pywikipedia/trunk/pywikipedia/.

Ongoing news

• Internationalisation has been continuing as normal; help is always appreciated! See m:Localization statistics for how complete the translations of languages you know are, and post any updates to bugzilla.