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.2 (ce9d259), 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

• When an editintro is used to give advice about editing a page, it no longer causes a stray line break between the 'minor edit' and 'watch this page' checkboxes. ( r25793, bug 9252)
• It's now impossible to set a default number of days to show in Recent Changes in preferences that's greater than the number of days that Recent Changes actually stores. ( r26591, bug 11612)

New features

• A feature was added to expand templates (action=expand) and render wikitext (action=render) using the API. ( r26501, bugs 11173 and 11572)
• When logging in via the API, the relevant cookie prefix and session ID are now returned in the API results in addition to returning them in the cookies. ( r26507, bug 11569)
• Administrators can now view a diff from a deleted revision to the (deleted or not deleted) revision before it, via Special:Undelete. ( r26604, bug 7872)
• When querying the API for recent changes data, the type of recent changes entry (edit, new page, log entry) is now returned as a word, rather than as a number. ( r26615, bug 11632)

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 or use Betawiki.