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

Fixed bugs

• The apfrom parameter now works on all API queries sorted in descending order which take that parameter. (This was previously fixed for allpages, but not allcategories or allimages.) ( r42142, bug 15985)
• The "email this user" link no longer displays for users who can't be emailed (due to not having a valid address, or opting out). ( r42179, bug 1306)
• API queries for category members now work if there is a literal pipe character in the sort key for the last entry of a page. ( r42197, bug 16017)
• The continue parameter on API queries for the contributions of more than one user now works. ( r42198, bug 16018)
• Literal tabs in <pre> and <source> now work correctly. ( r42257, bug 15959)
• Some special pages, such as Special:DoubleRedirects, are again updating regularly (once every 3 days, at the moment). ( bug 15848 http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15848)

New features

• Large additions to pages now have a bold bytes-added amount in recent changes, the same way that large deletions have a bold bytes-removed amount. ( r42110, bug 15925)
• API queries for category members can now specify start and end by category sort key, rather than timestamp. ( r42169, bug 15995)
• [1] now has an RSS feed ( r42220, bug 6955); so does Special:Contributions for an individual user ( r42220, bug 12171).
• When someone tries to create a username that's confusingly similar to one that already exists, all the pre-existing names are now reported. ( r42240, bug 12232)

Ongoing news

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