Topic on Extension talk:VisualEditor

Because

• I am particularly interested in the fix for the direct file links (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151277);
• I noticed WikiPedia does not exhibit this issue and it runs MW 1.33 and VisualEditor 0.1.1;
• there are no corresponding entries in the Parsoid/MediaWiki compatibility table,

Would it be possible to update the table to include these versions?

Subsidiary question: is it possible to run newer versions of VE and Parsoid with an older version of MW?

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/services/parsoid/+/325341 was merged in May 2017 and released in Parsoid v0.8.0.

Note that VisualEditor is not versioned independently of MediaWiki. "0.1.1" is a prototype artefact, not a real version number, and has been this way for most of the decade.

Finally, in general, no, running old versions of MediaWiki is impossible with new Parsoid and VisualEditor, as we have to add new core functionality for them to work.

Hello, Thank you for your help. Note that, with respect to this thread and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Uvk268dxeel41txe, the reason why I am using MW 1.31 is because it is the Long Term Support version, hence my question above. Since 1.31 is supposed to be maintained up to June 2021, is there any chance/possibility the fix can be backported?

No. "LTS" refers to security updates for the core of MediaWiki and bundled extensions, not other extensions, sorry. Note that any security issues with VisualEditor would not be back-ported (though, in the eight years to date, the project has not had to release any).