New MediaWiki version 1.41.0 (new functionality AND security release)

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ANNC:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/mediawiki-announce@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/OMDFHJ2SKKJH775RW4UTC754OY4TP7UU/

Related:

• PR MediaWiki 1.40.0 (new release) #3605
• PR mediawiki/defaults/main.yml: Security release 1.40.1 ETA 2023-09-28 #3649

[holta]

Tested successfully (quick MediaWiki login w/ default password changeme2020) with fresh install...

multipass launch 24.04 -n u24-pr3688-mediawiki -c 2 -m 2G -d 20G --cloud-init pr3688-mediawiki.yml --bridged

Using pr3688-mediawiki.yml containing...

runcmd:
  - mkdir /etc/iiab
  - curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/iiab/iiab/master/vars/local_vars_unittest.yml > /etc/iiab/local_vars.yml
  - "sed -i 's/^mediawiki_install:.*/mediawiki_install: True/' /etc/iiab/local_vars.yml"
  - "sed -i 's/^mediawiki_enabled:.*/mediawiki_enabled: True/' /etc/iiab/local_vars.yml"
  - curl iiab.io/risky.txt | bash -s 3688 &

Monitored at the VM CLI with...

tail -f /var/log/cloud-init-output.log

iiab-diagnostics: http://sprunge.us/lIkZJw