MediaWiki 1.36

MediaWiki 1.36 is a future release of MediaWiki. Consult the file for the full list of changes. It was deployed on Wikimedia Foundation wikis through incremental " wmf "-branches starting 21 July 2020. The 1.36.0 stable release is expected to come out in May 2021. Download or checkout the  branch in Git to follow this release.

New features

 * The logo of MediaWiki has changed. This means that the "Powered By MediaWiki" button shown in the skin footer will be different.

Action API changes

 * `Access-Control-Max-Age` was added to the default list of headers allowed for cross-origin API requests ($wgAllowedCorsHeaders).
 * Accounts with the 'bot' right no longer have pages automatically added to the watchlist when making API edits, regardless of their preferences. This is to reduce the size of the watchlist data in the database. To add API bot edits to the watchlist, explicitly set the 'watch' option.