Flow/Releases

This is a fairly high-level overview of changes to Flow. To see in detail what's changed, browse in git or gerrit.

"Where's the fix?!"
Visit Special:Version to see what version of MediaWiki software a wiki is running, look for "1.NN/wmfXX".
 * 1) The latest Flow code appears on the team's development server (test page) and on the beta cluster (test page).
 * 2) Each week the Flow code goes out with the new MediaWiki release to mediawiki.org (test page).
 * 3) A week later that MediaWiki release is deployed on English Wikipedia (test page).

So on the current deployment cadence (see Deployments/One_week) if some bug is marked fixed or some patch is merged, you can expect to see the fix two Thursdays later on English Wikipedia. We sometimes make special deployments to fix egregious bugs outside of this cadence.

Released
Most recent first.

enable more Flow pages and backports, 2013-02-18

 * enable Flow on meta: test page and some mw.org design pages Trello
 * Watchlist improvements, show only most recent relevant changes

1.23wmf13, deployed to enwiki on 2013-02-13

 * use underscore instead of square brackets in Flow URLs

DB update, deployed to mediawiki.org and enwiki on 2013-02-11

 * shorter Flow UUIDs. A post or topic UUID such as  becomes  . Old URLs with longer UUIDs should continue to work.

1.23wmf12, deployed to enwiki on 2013-02-06

 * Separate and static "Reply • Edit" links for posts
 * Other post actions are in a [...] action menu
 * Timestamps no longer link to topic/post history
 * Terms of use text for edits and replies.

1.23wmf11, enabled on enwiki 2013-02-03

 * First version enabled on two WikiProject pages
 * Updates:
 * Fix to Echo for broken Special:Notifications deployed on 2013-02-05
 * Fix to Special:CheckUser deployed on 2013-02-04

1.23wmf13

 * change "[]" in Flow URLs to underscore . The old URLs should continue to work.
 * allow  in the query string of a Flow board URL. This shows a subset of the information that a regular page shows.

Pre-history

 * initial prototype on http://unicorn.wmflabs.org/flow/