Guild Wars Wiki:Changelog

This page lists the most important updates applied to the wiki software.

Maintenance 19 May 2021

• Upgraded MediaWiki from version 1.35.1 to 1.35.2.

Maintenance 30 March 2021

• Upgraded MediaWiki from version 1.34.4 to 1.35.1.
• Changed the DPL extension from Hydrawiki Gitlab DPL extension to the Universal-Omega Gitlab DPL3.
• Disabled the RecentChangesLogFilter extension.

Maintenance 6 October 2020

• Upgraded MediaWiki from version 1.34.2 to 1.34.4.

Maintenance 14 July 2020

• Upgraded MediaWiki from version 1.34.1 to 1.34.2.

Maintenance 22 April 2020

• Upgraded MediaWiki from version 1.34.0 to 1.34.1.

Maintenance 20 April 2020

• Added the wikiEditor extension.

Maintenance 31 March 2020

• The localSettings.php variable $wgResourceLoaderMaxQueryLength has been removed to enable multiple resource loader modules to be loaded at once.
• The DynamicPageList3 extension has been updated to version 3.3.3. A patch has also been applied based on this commit.

Maintenance 25 March 2020

• Upgraded MediaWiki from version 1.30.0 to 1.34.0.
• Upgraded Semantic MediaWiki from version 2.5.6 to version 3.1.5.
• Enabled the NewUserMessage, Popups, TextExtracts and PageImages extensions.
• Added the MobileFrontend extension.
• Multiple localSettings.php variables ($wgEnableUploads, $wgAutoConfirmAge, $wgMaxAnimatedGifArea, $maxLoops, $wgFooterIcons) were changed to be uniform across all wikis.
• Updated the footer logo.
• Removed the AlternativeUserTalk extension.
• Enabled the InputBox extension.

Maintenance 06 November 2019

• Restricted editors of the Guild and Guild talk namespaces to sysop and above.

Maintenance 24 May 2018

• Added a Cookie Notification window.
• Removed the Maps extension.

Maintenance 23 May 2018

• Recreating all of the current AWS Aurora MySQL database instances with encrypted instances.

Maintenance 18 May 2018

• Enabled IP address anonymization for the Google Analytics extension.

Maintenance 17 May 2018

• Applied AWS Aurora MySQL minor version upgrades.

Maintenance 15 May 2018

• Applied PHP security update.

Maintenance 20 march 2018

• Upgraded MediaWiki from version 1.27.2 to version 1.30.0.
• Updated DPL to DynamicPageList3.

Maintenance 23 June 2017

• Enabled the Widgets extension.

Maintenance 12 June 2017

• Changed a parameter of the MediaWiki software for the "Email this user" feature. Emails using this feature now put the sender's address in the Reply-To header instead of the From header to prevent accidental exposure of the recipient's address if email delivery fails.

Maintenance 30 November 2016

• Upgraded MediaWiki from version 1.26.4 to version 1.27.1.

Maintenance 7 April 2016

• Changed the captcha software from ReCaptcha to NoCaptcha.

Maintenance 16 March 2016

• Upgraded MediaWiki from version 1.24.2 to version 1.26.2.
• Upgraded extensions to recent compatible versions.
• Removed Semantic MediaWiki extensions intended for the GW2W.

Maintenance 17 December 2013

• Patched MediaWiki software from 1.20.7 to 1.20.8
• Installed the extension RecentChangesLogFilter

Maintenance 7 November 2013

• Installed the extension RecentChangesLogFilter

Maintenance 24 October 2013

• Patched MediaWiki software from 1.20.6 to 1.20.7
• Upgraded AbuseFilter extension to latest snapshot
• Updated user group permissions to make them consistent across all 5 GW and GW2 wikis
  • Removed the ArenaNetIT usergroup.
• Updated a few wiki settings to make them consistent across all 5 GW and GW2 wikis

Maintenance 27 June 2013

• Added the deletelogentry permission to the Sysops user group.

Maintenance 21 June 2013

• Upgraded the MediaWiki software from version 1.20.5 to 1.20.6.

Maintenance 14 June 2013

• Changed the Captcha system from FancyCaptcha to ReCaptcha.

Maintenance 8 May 2013

• Upgraded the MediaWiki software from version 1.16 to 1.20.5.

• Upgraded all the MediaWiki extensions for 1.20.x compatibility.
  • Applied a DPL patch to fix a bug causing incompatibility with the Cite extension.
  • Applied a DismissableSiteNoticePlus patch to fix a display issue.

• Added group permissions to fix an issue that prevented new editors from being able to watch pages.