Reading/Web/Release timeline/Visual Changes

This page is a companion page to the Release timeline, which documents visual changes (both expected and unexpected) that went out in each release as caught by https://pixel.wmcloud.org/. If a release has no heading, this means there were no visual changes in that release. We began tracking visual changes for the wmf10 branch (comparing master against wmf.9).

Comparing 808059 against master. (Fastforward of "origin/wmf/1.39.0-wmf.19")
Last updated: 7 July 2022


 * Echo: Green
 * Desktop: Green
 * Mobile: Green

Comparing origin/wmf/1.39.0-wmf.19 against master.
Last updated: 5 July 2022


 * Echo: Green
 * Desktop:
 * 11 failures were reported due to https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/808059. All visual changes were manually reviewed and expected. The reference point was updated.
 * Mobile: Green

Comparing origin/wmf/1.39.0-wmf.18 against master.
Last updated: 28 June 2022


 * Echo: Green
 * Desktop: 15 failures.
 * Tablet viewport:
 * Expected: The surplus more menu has been removed (see T310536) introduced in 808080.
 * Desktop viewport:
 * Expected: The table of contents in the sidebar now shows on scroll (see T310536) introduced in 808080.
 * Expected: The sticky header now shows (see T310536), introduced in 808080.
 * Mobile: Green

Comparing origin/wmf/1.39.0-wmf.17 against master.
Last updated: 27 June 2022


 * Echo: Green
 * Desktop: 6 failures.
 * Expected: The table of contents icon shows on scroll (new feature) on mobile devices (phab:T308689).
 * Expected (to be confirmed): The margin for the table of contents iswhen scrolling without the sticky header and main menu is open has been modified (phab:T309807).
 * Mobile: Green

Regressions caught: T311283, T310536, T311319, T309807,

Comparing origin/wmf/1.39.0-wmf.16 against master.
Last updated: 15th June 2022


 * Echo: 14 failures due to table of contents icon alignment (documented in T307900. It seems unintentional that the table of contents in the sidebar is also moving.
 * Desktop: 56 failures assumed to be intentional related to heading border and icon alignment (T310533 and T307900). There is also a change in the bottom border of the article heading in both legacy and vector-2022 that is intentional.
 * Mobile: 0 failures

Comparing origin/wmf/1.39.0-wmf.15 against master.
Last updated: 8th June 2022


 * Mobile: All green
 * Desktop: [Regression] color change for bottom border of legacy Vector's h1 element. 62 failures but the rest are assumed to be intentional (T310197)
 * Echo: 20 failures related to the desktop layout changes

Comparing master against origin/wmf/1.39.0-wmf.14
Last updated: 6 June 2022


 * Mobile: All green
 * Desktop: [Regression] Spacing between sidebar and TOC has increased. Three failures relating to ULS settings cog. Seems to be a false positive.
 * Echo: All green

Comparing master against origin/wmf/1.39.0-wmf.13
Last updated: 24 May 2022

All green

Comparing master against origin/wmf/1.39.0-wmf.12
Last updated: 23 May 2022

Desktop has 14 failures. 8 of these are on the history page and report the reference images having no revision history but those are false positives and is a result of a database schema change that occurred this week and that affected the revision table (Pixel should be more resilient to DB schema changes in the future).

Mobile (5 failed/15 pass): The notification and search icons will show a small shift due to https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/Echo/+/793114. This is expected. The settings link was restored to the main menu (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T307696) leading to more expected failures in minerva_mobile_mainmenu-open.

Comparing master against origin/wmf/1.39.0-wmf.11
Last updated: 12th May 2022

All desktop tests are passing.

Mobile (7 failed/13 pass): Mobile tests were introduced but are flaky due to the sidebar animation and layout shift involving the footer logo. The latter should be resolved in.

Comparing master against origin/wmf/1.39.0-wmf.10
Last updated: 6th May 2022

22 passed | 38 failed (36% pass)

The failures here were due to expected changes:


 * [Expected] Fix spacing/margins for screens between 1000 and 1200 px
 * [Expected] Previously the height between the page title and the content was different on special pages vs regular pages. This was corrected in 789207
 * [Expected] The introduction of the toolbar component in 787562 led to slight pixel misalignment in the article namespace and action tabs. This was expected preparation for the introduction of a grid system to Vector and moving the article tools below the title.

Comparing master against origin/wmf/1.39.0-wmf.9
Last updated: 2nd May 2022

47 passed | 13 failed (78% pass)


 * 1) [Expected] We’re collapsing things into the more menu at lower breakpoints to make things more predictable. As a result edit icon will be hidden under more menu at lower resolutions now. There was one unexpected bug associated with this on history and Special:RecentChanges which will be fixed by 787801 so that this issue didn't got out with the release.
 * 2) [Expected] We changed the alignment of logo with table of contents and search with tabs
 * 3) [Regression]  Main menu placement is off on screens 700-1000px