Topic on Talk:Release notes/1.26

We are having a heck of a time getting MediaWiki to run as expected with (1) mod_security enabled, and (2) mod_rewrite changing HTTP requests to HTTPS requests.

When grepping .htaccess files supplied with MediaWiki 1.26.4, we noticed a couple old workarounds present:

# find /var/www -name '.htaccess' -printf '%p\n' -exec cat {} \;
/var/www/html/w/cache/.htaccess
Deny from all
/var/www/html/w/languages/.htaccess
Deny from all
/var/www/html/w/extensions/MobileFrontend/dev-scripts/.htaccess
Deny from all
/var/www/html/w/maintenance/archives/.htaccess
Deny from all
/var/www/html/w/maintenance/.htaccess
Deny from all
/var/www/html/w/serialized/.htaccess
Deny from all
/var/www/html/w/images/temp/.htaccess
# Protect against bug 28235
<IfModule rewrite_module>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} \.[^\\/:*?\x22<>|%]+(#|\?|$) [nocase]
    RewriteRule . - [forbidden]
</IfModule>
/var/www/html/w/images/.htaccess
# Protect against bug 28235
<IfModule rewrite_module>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} \.[^\\/:*?\x22<>|%]+(#|\?|$) [nocase]
    RewriteRule . - [forbidden]
    # Fix for bug T64289
    Options +FollowSymLinks
</IfModule>
/var/www/html/w/images/deleted/.htaccess
Deny from all
/var/www/html/w/includes/.htaccess
Deny from all

Are the .htaccess work around still required for Bug 28235 and Bug T64289 under MediaWiki 1.26.4?