Topic on Extension talk:Lockdown/Archive 2

When using the Advanced tab in Special:Search the "Search in namespaces:" section only shows the namespaces which had been protected through Extension:Lockdown (i.e.namespaces included in $wgNamespacePermissionLockdown variable).

The bug was observable for users with permissions granted for these lockdown namespaces as well as anonymous users.

• Tested on: MediaWiki v1.28.2 (438c3d6) - 00:03, 1 May 2017
• On extension branches: master, REL1_29, REL1_28

Fortunately, the problem does not exist for REL1_27.

Update

On further investigation with individual commits for finding out which commit caused the breaking changes used the Rel1_28 commit history.

Special:Search works fine up-to-the commit, Merge "The parameter to the SearchableNamespaces hook handler needs to be a…

git checkout b19a0a60a476ddbf5344395b339e928729c11f54

For whatever reason, the Special:Search bug appears in the very next commit, Consolidate hook handler code

git checkout 6ef74a58be6ee453452470f274a76b5fc5fa211b

Got this error in our wikis.

Is there any temporary fix for this bug?

In case you are using the REL1_28 branch, run the following command, through SSH in the extensions/Lockdown directory:

git checkout b19a0a60a476ddbf5344395b339e928729c11f54

Cool, work immediately. Thank you!