[MediaWiki-announce] MediaWiki 1.27 now available!

[Chad Horohoe]

Hello everyone,

I am happy to announce the availability the general release of MediaWiki
1.27!

MediaWiki 1.27 includes all changes released in the smaller 1.27.0-wmf.*
software deployments
to Wikimedia sites over six months, totaling approximately 2800+ commits by
around 165
authors. This is a large release that contains many new features and bug
fixes.

This will be a LTS release, supported until 2019 with security fixes.

This is a summary of the major changes of interest to users and
administrators:
* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27
Of special note is AuthManager, which I explained in detail with second
release candidate:
*
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2016-June/000190.html

You can always consult the RELEASE-NOTES-1.27 file for the full list of
changes in this version.

Full release notes:
*
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_27/RELEASE-NOTES-1.27
* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.27

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Download:
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.27/mediawiki-1.27.0.tar.gz
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.27/mediawiki-core-1.27.0.tar.gz

GPG signatures:
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.27/mediawiki-1.27.0.tar.gz.sig
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.27/mediawiki-core-1.27.0.tar.gz.sig

Public keys:
https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html

-Chad