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(When) will new features become available for MW1.23?

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Rcdeboer (talkcontribs)

The latest REL1_23 download is from July 29 2014 (rev. 9883566). In the meantime, a lot of issues have been fixed. Some of them, such as IE10 suport, are quite important to us. Is there a roadmap for when these changes become available for MW 1.23?

Kghbln (talkcontribs)

Indeed a backport of all the new goodies and fixes into the MW 1.23 LTS branch will be great.

Jdforrester (WMF) (talkcontribs)

We are not planning to work on this inside the Wikimedia Foundation, sorry.

Rcdeboer (talkcontribs)

That's a clear answer. Is this something the community could pick up (and if so, what's the best approach)? Seeing that MW1.23 is the current LTS version it will be around for a while.

Kghbln (talkcontribs)

I suppose that WMF would do it if it was somewhat easy. I believe that 1.23 is kinda lost for VE which does not come as a surprise. I will now direct all my hopes into the next LTS 1.27 branch for a stable release of VE. Appreciate the clear answer, too.

Jdforrester (WMF) (talkcontribs)

Theoretically there will be very few files touched in MW-core that would need back-porting; beyond the OOjs UI library and (new for MW 1.24) the Parsoid styling, it will come down to occasional API additions created to give VisualEditor missing functionality. We're not doing it because we don't have the time and it's not part of our focus, but it shouldn't be too hard, nominally.

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