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Fedora 42: FEDORA-2025-01bd4e4d20 critical: mediawiki upgrade

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Calendar Grey June 22, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Update your MediaWiki installation on Fedora 42, implementing essential patches to improve both security and performance. Ensure robust support for high-traffic scenarios.

https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/mediawiki-announce@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/OXIGQIHBL26HFKG6TT5SWSH7K7W6RO4H/ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T382326

Summary

MediaWiki is the software used for Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia

Foundation websites. Compared to other wikis, it has an excellent

range of features and support for high-traffic websites using multiple

servers

This package supports wiki farms. Read the instructions for creating wiki

instances under /usr/share/doc/mediawiki/README.RPM.

Remember to remove the config dir after completing the configuration.

Update Information:

https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/mediawiki-announce@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/OXIGQIHBL26HFKG6TT5SWSH7K7W6RO4H/ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T382326

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora software upgrade mediawiki

Change Log

* Thu Jun 12 2025 Michael Cronenworth <mike@cchtml.com> - 1.43.1-1 - Update to 1.43.1

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2025-01bd4e4d20 2025-06-22 05:57:57.824370+00:00 Name : mediawiki Product : Fedora 42 Version : 1.43.1 Release : 1.fc42 URL : https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki Summary : A wiki engine Description : MediaWiki is the software used for Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia Foundation websites. Compared to other wikis, it has an excellent range of features and support for high-traffic websites using multiple servers This package supports wiki farms. Read the instructions for creating wiki instances under /usr/share/doc/mediawiki/README.RPM. Remember to remove the config dir after completing the configuration.

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-01bd4e4d20' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: mediawiki
Product: Fedora 42
Version: 1.43.1
Release: 1.fc42
URL: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
Summary: A wiki engine

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora software upgrade mediawiki

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