Mwbot-rs/News

Recent

 * February 24: Measuring the length of Wikipedia articles blog post published
 * February 23: parsoid 0.7.6 and 0.8.0-alpha.5 released, with a fix for handling "templatearg" parts of multi-part templates (T330371).
 * February 20: mwapi 0.5.0-alpha.3, parsoid 0.8.0-alpha.4, mwbot 0.5.0-alpha.4, wikipedia_prosesize 0.1.0-alpha.3 released. Among other changes, this obsoletes mwapi_errors as each crate now has its own distinct Error type.
 * February 20: mwtitle 0.2.2 released, simplifying creation of titles from the database.
 * February 14: wikipedia_prosesize 0.1.0-alpha.2 released with bugfixes for a more accurate count.
 * February 13: wikipedia_prosesize 0.1.0-alpha.1 gets its initial release, see Mastodon thread.
 * February 7: parsoid 0.8.0-alpha.3 released with more template mutators, and mwbot 0.5.0-alpha.3 released, allowing edits to be marked as minor.
 * February 1: mwapi_errors 0.3.0-alpha.2, mwapi 0.5.0-alpha.2, parsoid 0.8.0-alpha.2, mwbot 0.5.0-alpha.2 released with documentation improvements.

January 2023

 * January 31: mwapi_errors 0.3.0-alpha.1, mwapi 0.5.0-alpha.1, parsoid 0.8.0-alpha.1, mwbot 0.5.0-alpha.1 released, adding support for file uploads.
 * January 30: mwbot 0.4.5 released with a minor bugfix for the tracing-subscriber wrapper.
 * January 22: mwbot 0.4.4 released with a basic tracing-subscriber wrapper and a generator for list=allpages.
 * January 19: toolforge 5.5.0 released with improvements to the  utility, documentation and new   features.
 * January 19: mwseaql 0.3.0 released, with an upgrade to SeaQuery 0.28 and the addition of more Toolforge table variants. It is now maintained in a separate Git repository.

December 2022

 * December 26: toolforge 5.4.0 released, with new toolforge-tunnel CLI and unstable WikiPool database connection handler, see "MySQL connection pooling in Rust for Toolforge" blog post.
 * December 23: toolforge 5.3.0 released, adds options for policy-compliant connection pooling.
 * December 4: parsoid 0.7.4 released, fixes detection of link targets for redlinks following a Parsoid change.
 * December 1: parsoid 0.7.3 released, fixes detection of link targets for redlinks following a Parsoid change. 0.7.3 was yanked for causing a regression in Unicode handling.
 * December 1: mwapi 0.4.3 released

November 2022

 * November 7: mwapi 0.4.2, parsoid 0.7.2 released with WASM support.
 * November 3: mwseaql 0.2.0 released, with a schema update for the  table and an upgrade to SeaQuery 0.27.

October 2022

 * October 9: Introducing mwseaql, a crate for MediaWiki SQL query building blog post published
 * October 5: mwseaql 0.1.2 released.
 * October 1: mwtitle 0.2.1, mwapi_errors 0.2.2, mwapi_responses 0.3.1, mwapi 0.4.1, parsoid 0.7.1, mwbot 0.4.1, mwseaql 0.1.1 released.

September 2022

 * September 30: mwbot-rs issue tracking moved to Wikimedia Phabricator.
 * September 26: mwbot-rs Git repositories moved to Wikimedia GitLab.
 * September 19: New mwseaql crate released (0.1.0), for using MediaWiki SQL table definitions with SeaQuery.
 * September 19: mwapi_errors 0.2.1, mwapi_responses 0.3.0, mwtitle 0.2.0, mwapi 0.4.0, parsoid 0.7.0, mwbot 0.4.0 released
 * September 18: parsoid 0.6.5 released, fixes detection of external links following a Parsoid change
 * September 11: mwapi_responses 0.3.0-alpha.4, parsoid 0.7.0-alpha.5 released

May 2022

 * May 1: mwbot 0.4.0-alpha.3, mwtitle 0.2.0-alpha.2, mwapi_responses 0.3.0-alpha.3, parsoid 0.7.0-alpha.4 released

April 2022

 * April 26: What it takes to parse MediaWiki page titles...in Rust blog post reposted on the Wikimedia Tech Blog

January 2022

 * January 21: Building fast Wikipedia bots in Rust blog post published
 * January 6: mwtitle 0.2.0-alpha.1, mwapi_errors 0.2.0-alpha.2, mwbot 0.4.0-alpha.2 released
 * January 4: mwapi_errors 0.2.0-alpha.1, mwapi_responses 0.3.0-alpha.2, mwapi 0.4.0-alpha.2, parsoid 0.7.0-alpha.3 released

December 2021

 * December 25: parsoid 0.7.0-alpha.2, mwbot 0.4.0-alpha.1 released
 * December 24: mwapi_responses 0.3.0-alpha.1, mwapi 0.4.0-alpha.1, parsoid 0.7.0-alpha.1 released
 * December 24: mwapi_errors 0.1.7 released
 * December 23: What it takes to parse MediaWiki page titles...in Rust blog post published
 * December 19: Initial 0.1.0 release of mwtitle published