Re: Correction: MediaWiki 1.46-alpha will be branched as a beta on 21st April 2026

Hi,

There is no 1.46.0-wmf.25 branch listed at
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/core/+refs and the
train this week was cancelled.

Which branch will REL1_46 be based on?

Thanks,

Dreamy Jazz


On Tue, 14 Apr 2026 at 14:07, Mateus Santos via Wikitech-l <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey all, apologies for the previous email with incorrect dates and title.
>
> This is a quick note to highlight that in the week of 21st of April 2026,
> the REL1_46
> branch will be created for MediaWiki core and each of the extensions and
> skins in Wikimedia git, with some (the 'tarball') included as sub-modules
> of MediaWiki itself[0]. This is the first step in the release process for
> MediaWiki 1.46, which should be out in June 2026, approximately six months
> after MediaWiki 1.45.
>
> The branches will reflect the code as of the last 'alpha' branch for the
> release, 1.46.0-wmf.25, which will be deployed to Wikimedia wikis in the
> week beginning 21 April 2026 for MediaWiki itself and those extensions
> and skins available there.
>
> After that point, patches that land in the main development branch of
> MediaWiki and its bundled extensions and skins will be instead be slated
> for the MediaWiki 1.47 release unless specifically backported[1].
>
> If you are working on a new feature that you wish to land for the release,
> you now have a few days to finish your work and land it in the development
> branch; feature changes should not be backported except in an urgent case.
> If your work might not be complete in time, and yet should block release
> for everyone else, please file a task against the `mw-1.46-release` project
> on Phabricator.[2]
>
> If you have tickets that are already tagged for `mw-1.46-release`, please
> finish them, untag them, or reach out to get them resolved in the next few
> weeks.
>
> We hope to issue the first release candidate, 1.46.0-rc.0, two weeks after
> the branch point, and if all goes well, to release MediaWiki 1.46.0 a few
> weeks after that in the beginning of June.
>
> [0]: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bundled_extensions_and_skins>
> [1]: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Backporting_fixes>
> [2]: <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.46-release/>
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