This is a summary of recent technology and site configuration changes that affect the English Wikipedia. Note that not all changes described here are live as of press time; the English Wikipedia is currently running version 1.43.0-wmf.7 (b6ef248), and changes to the software with a version number higher than that will not yet be active.

Fixed bugs

• Headings are now numbered correctly in Special:Statistics if the option to 'Auto-number headings' in a user's preferences is turned on. ( r25040, bug 9026)
• The category tree of subcategories that appears on category pages now works correctly in situations where the category's name is of the form Category:languagecode:name. ( r25130, bug 10883)
• Also, the category tree links now produce a more informative error message when they can't load the information they need for some reason. ( r25135, bug 11015)
• The MediaWiki messages used to display EXIF information for images again can be formatted as wikitext rather than being raw text (this feature existed before, but was removed by mistake). ( r25148, bug 11065)
• A link to the deletion confirmation page for an image (which would only be usable by administrators) now accepts &wpReason=reason in the URL to give a default deletion reason when the confirmation page is opened. ( r25191, bug 11079)

New features

• 'My preferences' now has a keyboard shortcut, consisting of some combination of modifier keys (depending on the browser used) and the 9 key. Likewise, a keyboard shortcut for the 'upload' button when uploading an image or other file has been added (modifier keys and s). ( r25080, bug 5206)

Ongoing news

• Internationalisation has been continuing as normal; help is always appreciated! See m:Localization statistics for how complete the translations of languages you know are, and post any updates to bugzilla or use Betawiki.