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

• The PHP and XML output of Special:Allmessages no longer incorrectly expands templates. ( r32700, bug 13431)
• Renaming a user now moves the logs of blocks and user right changes applied to that user to their new username. This does not apply retroactively to previously renamed users. ( r32816, bug 7011)
• JSON output from the API now correctly marks strings as strings even if they are the string representation of an integer. ( r32820, bug 11633)
• JSON callbacks from the API now allow square brackets. ( r32822, bug 12136)

New features

• There have been some major improvements to what the watchlist is capable of watching ( r32685):
  • Watching an image description page will now display a watchlist entry when the image itself is overwritten (by uploading a new version of it). ( bug 778 http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778)
  • Watching an existing page now shows log entries for that page in the watchlist (for instance, page moves, protections and deletions). ( bug 5546 http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5546)
• Special:Recentchanges now has an option to show only bot-flagged edits (edits made by bot-flagged users or bot rollback). ( r32696, bug 13441)
• It's now possible to obtain a list of user groups and permissions using the API (which explains which user groups are needed to perform which actions, e.g. you need to be an administrator to delete pages). ( r32740, bug 13603)
• Logs now use timestamp paging, making log links stabler and removing the 10000 offset limit restriction. ( r32685, bug 5446)
• Special:RevisionDelete expanded to include files and log events. Not yet enabled on Wikimedia sites. ( r32278)
• Private logging support added, starting with a log for Special:RevisionDelete items hidden from Sysops (or unhidden from them) ( r32685)

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.