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Extensions not updated in 9 years

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Entrusted Capsule (talkcontribs)

Are extensions which haven't been updated in 9 years safe to use? Common sense tells me no, but I don't know if these extensions, being open source, are regularly checked by anyone on MediaWiki? I can't find any evidence of a comprehensive audit ever been done on the extensions though.

Specifically, Extension:Wiki-httpbl hasn't been updated in 9 years and appears to be unmaintained. Same goes for Extension:GroupPermissions - would it be better to archive these extensions if they haven't been audited?

2003:72:6D1C:EE00:C14:C8AF:141A:321B (talkcontribs)

Extension:GroupPermissions possibly allowed changing $wgGroupPermissions. However, I would say the save way of dong this is using one of the hooks! The code of the extension no longer is available anyway as Google Code is down. So it is impossible to say, if this old colde in theory might still be working with current versions of MediaWiki.