Topic on Talk:MediaWiki 1.21

MediaWiki 1.20 doesn't have mentions to the point releases. They can be only found at Release notes/1.20. Maybe in 1.21 we can do better?

Having a little section for each point release would allow us to keep linking to the (hopefully localized) MediaWiki 1.21 announcement. The release notes could stay as they are, in English only and all the details of bugs fixed.

This discussion started in the context of Template_talk:Current_versions#New proposal.

This post was posted by Qgil-WMF, but signed as Qgil.

1.x.y releases don't contain big new features etc. and in your example there's nothing about them on Release notes/1.20 that should go on MediaWiki 1.20. I'm adding {{MWReleases}} on the wiki release notes and we probably need {{MW quick download}} (or similar) on the 1.x pages.

You are right... But on the other hand is kind of weird to have point releases out there not mentioned at all in the main page of the release they relate to. A simple mention linking to the release notes would do e.g.

• YYYY/MM/DD - 1.x.y security release is out.

This post was posted by Qgil-WMF, but signed as Qgil.

Release checklist lists all the templates which are updated when a new release is produced; there's plenty of templates, those should be used for this.

How would you keep entries for 1.20.1 and 1.20.2 at MediaWiki 1.20 using those templates? They are updated every time a new release is available, isn't it. But thank you for the link to Release checklist. Should we move this thread there?

This post was posted by Qgil-WMF, but signed as Qgil.

I don't know. I've added more links to the two templates above.