On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 11:28 PM Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 6:26 PM Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 5:31 PM Sam Reed <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > As per the MediaWiki version lifecycle,[1] I would like to announce the 
> > > formal end of life (EOL) of MediaWiki 1.34 as of today, Monday November 
> > > 30, 2020.
> > >
> > > This means that MediaWiki 1.34 will no longer receive maintenance or 
> > > security backports. It is therefore strongly discouraged that you 
> > > continue to use it.
> > >
> > > It is recommended to upgrade to MediaWiki 1.35, the current Long Term 
> > > Support (LTS) version which is not due to become EOL until September 
> > > 2023. The legacy Long Term Support version of MediaWiki, MediaWiki 1.31, 
> > > is older and downgrading is not supported.
> > >
> > > MediaWiki 1.35 bumps the required PHP version from 7.2.9 in 1.34 (which 
> > > is unsupported upstream), to PHP 7.3.19 or later.
> >
> > CentOS 7 recently bumped PHP to version 7.3.20 when the SCL is
> > enabled. CentOS 7 users with SCL enabled should be OK to migrate to
> > Mediawiki 1.35.
> >
> > Also see https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=17826.
>
> My bad... I just tested CentOS 7 with SCL in my test environment. The
> PHP changes for CentOS 7 with SCL has not landed in production. It is
> still providing the down-level version of PHP.

Red Hat released the PHP 7.3.20 update to production today. It looks
like it is safe to migrate to Mediawiki 1.35.

Also see https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=17826.

Jeff

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