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Recent software changes

• The Technical Operations team is now using Phabricator to track their tasks. The Operations team manages the Wikimedia servers. In the future you will be able to see the tasks that are not private. [1]

Software changes this week

• There will be no software changes this week and next week. This is because of the end-of-year holidays . The next update of MediaWiki will be on January 6. [2]

Future changes

• The system that displays citations will change in the future. The new system will not change the style of citations. [3]
• A new design for VisualEditor will come in January. You can try it now on test wikis. [4]

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