== Tech News: 2014-44 ==

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 There was an issue with files from Commons on October 21. You could only see those with names between 140 and 159 characters by visiting Commons itself. 
  There was a problem with cut and paste in VisualEditor in Firefox. It was fixed quickly. 
 There was a problem with editing math in VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly. 

Software changes this week
 The new version of MediaWiki will now come to Wikipedia sites every Wednesday, instead of every Thursday. 
 The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf5) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 23. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28, and on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar).
 VisualEditor now uses autovalues for templates if they are in TemplateData.   
 VisualEditor's menu items now show their shortcuts beside them. 
 VisualEditor now opens faster when you click "edit". 
 The rules for plurals in translations changed in some languages. Interface translations are currently not being updated from translatewiki.net; this process will start again on November 6.  

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