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.

Flow/Rollout records when Flow was enabled on which pages.

"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.

1.24wmf14, deployed to enwiki on 2014-07-24

 * Topics are now "pages" named Topic: in the new Topic namespace. You can watch these pages. See Flow/Architecture/URLs
 * Flow boards reference 'mediawiki.skinning.content.parsoid' CSS module, so image thumbnails and other wikitext should display better.

1.24wmf12, deployed to enwiki on 2014-07-10

 * Major frontend-rewrite: new templating, new drop-down menu, new iteration of "Agora" buttons styles
 * You can sort Flow board by "Recently active topics" as well as newest topics first.
 * Flow boards use ContentHandler to identify their contentmodel as 'flow-board'.

1.24wmf2, deployed to enwiki on 2014-05-01

 * close and summarize topics

1.23wmf20, deployed to enwiki on 2014-04-03

 * display warning when editing anonymously

1.23wmf19, deployed to enwiki on 2014-03-27

 * "Thanks" feature, ability to thank someone for their post.

March 2014: improvements to logging

 * Special:Contributions improvements
 * Oversight/suppression of posts improved

1.23wmf16, deployed to enwiki on 2014-03-06

 * allow a third level of nesting (Replies to replies to comments on the topic ).

enable more Flow pages and backports, 2014-02-18

 * 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 2014-02-13

 * use underscore instead of square brackets in Flow URLs
 * allow  in the query string of a Flow board URL. This shows a subset of the information that a regular page shows.

DB update, deployed to mediawiki.org and enwiki on 2014-02-11

 * 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 2014-02-06

 * 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 2014-02-03

 * First version enabled on two WikiProject pages
 * Updates:
 * Fix to Echo for broken Special:Notifications deployed on 2014-02-05
 * Fix to Special:CheckUser deployed on 2014-02-04

Upcoming

 * improved styling: reference superscripts( in 1.24wmf3), images, external links

"Epic Front-End rewrite, with many new features

Pre-history

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