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Issues and maintenance
- Because of the problems with the MediaWiki version two weeks ago the updates from last week are also late. [1][2][3]
Changes later this week
- Live previews didn't show the templates used in the preview if you had just edited a section. This has now been fixed. Also, live previews have been disabled for CSS and JavaScript pages like Special:MyPage/common.js because the changes that were made can't be applied/tested in the preview with live previews. [4][5]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 October. It will be on all wikis from 15 October (calendar).
Future changes
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