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Today's release highlights include:

• The Visual Editor on memory-alpha.fandom.com (Memory Alpha) wiki which was throwing errors has been fixed.

• One of the SOAP team's more critical scripts was fixed.

• Work continued on the new FandomDesktop skin, with several issues identified and resolved

There were no user-facing changes in today's code release, but one back end security fix was applied.

Due to statutory holidays in Poland, where the vast majority of our engineers are located, there will be no code releases next Monday and Tuesday. Regular releases will resume on May 5, 2021.

The highlights of today's technical release include:

• The achievement for posting to Message Walls now works for all wikis (at this point, even I am skeptical!)

• The non-functional "account creation" block option has been removed from Special:Block page

• Subpages of wiki main pages no longer have a right rail

Work continues apace on getting the new desktop skin finalized. As for user-facing bug fixes, we have just the one,

• The achievement for posting to Message Walls now works for supported non-English wikis as well (the fix for English wikis was yesterday)

There were only 2 user-facing changes in today's release:

• An issue with uploading some YouTube videos was resolved.

• The achievement for posting to Message Walls now works

As UCP migrations close, personal global CSS and JS has had its source of truth switched back to Community Central from the UCP placeholder wiki. Your last revision on UCP wiki has been transferred to Community Central.

There were no user-facing releases on Thursday, April 15th. Today's release includes:

• Broken links now display as red (in color) in the Mobile Visual Editor

• The edit summary box on the 2017 editor now has a maximum number of characters limit applied

• Styling, and in particular bullet lists, have been added back to Special:Gadgets

• Old blocks which were not being applied on wikis have now been fixed

• Special:Analytics no longer has information about Discussion feeds

• Fallback language has been added back to Chinese language variants where it was missing

There was only one release of note today and that was that legibility and contrast have been improved for Special:MobileDiff on the FandomMobile skin.

Today's release highlights include:

• A main page gallery on the Warsawa (Polish) wiki which had been throwing a MediaWiki error has been resolved.

• Searching "qq" or "QQ" on the Chinese Minecraft wiki no longer results in an internal error.

• New mobile images galleries are now enabled across Fandom.

• Some missing translations have been added for the CreateNewWiki process for non-English wikis.

Today's release highlights include:

• The process of uploading a duplicate of a file that already exists on a wiki has been improved

• Preview in 2010 editor now shows categories and displays references in a single column

• Register account link inside the Editor Popup has been fixed

• Work is advancing on the new version of Theme Designer

• User Talk namespace now redirects to the Message Wall namespace for non-English wikis

• Reverb on non-English migrated GP wikis now links to the notification page on the correct language path

• Banners informing about new mobile experience on wikis has been removed

• Last Wednesday's release blocker has been resolved. Gallery image thumbnails now load in the Visual Editor on Mobile

• Message wall threads no longer disappear when clicked

Hey everyone!

We moved to daily technical releases on Mondays through Thursdays as of April 7, 2021 and I will be providing high level updates here regarding those releases moving forward. As I'm sure many of you have noticed, it's already the 8th and nothing was said yesterday. For the record, there was a technical blocker which caused the team to cancel yesterday's release. Today, there is only one bug fix of note being released:

• We had a number of wikis which experienced problems during the wiki creation process which caused a corruption of the underlying database. A search was made to identify these wikis and they have since been deleted.