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 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