Topic on Extension talk:ConfirmEdit

ConfirmEdit 1.6.0 MW 1.39.6 PHP 7.4.3 MYSQL 8.0.36

When registering a new account, I receive

[bd47ef227f5d4ce05b1a77e2] /wiki/Spezial:Benutzerkonto_anlegen Error: Call to undefined method User::getCanonicalName()

Backtrace:

from /var/www/test/mediawiki/extensions/ConfirmEdit/SimpleCaptcha/SimpleCaptcha.php(475)
#0 /var/www/test/mediawiki/extensions/ConfirmEdit/SimpleCaptcha/SimpleCaptcha.php(334): SimpleCaptcha->badLoginPerUserKey()
#1 /var/www/test/mediawiki/extensions/ConfirmEdit/includes/auth/CaptchaPreAuthenticationProvider.php(148): SimpleCaptcha->resetBadLoginCounter()
#2 /var/www/test/mediawiki/includes/auth/AuthManager.php(2620): CaptchaPreAuthenticationProvider->postAuthentication()
#3 /var/www/test/mediawiki/includes/auth/AuthManager.php(415): MediaWiki\Auth\AuthManager->callMethodOnProviders()
#4 /var/www/test/mediawiki/includes/specialpage/LoginSignupSpecialPage.php(344): MediaWiki\Auth\AuthManager->beginAuthentication()
#5 /var/www/test/mediawiki/includes/specialpage/SpecialPage.php(701): LoginSignupSpecialPage->execute()
#6 /var/www/test/mediawiki/includes/specialpage/SpecialPageFactory.php(1428): SpecialPage->run()
#7 /var/www/test/mediawiki/includes/MediaWiki.php(316): MediaWiki\SpecialPage\SpecialPageFactory->executePath()
#8 /var/www/test/mediawiki/includes/MediaWiki.php(904): MediaWiki->performRequest()
#9 /var/www/test/mediawiki/includes/MediaWiki.php(562): MediaWiki->main()
#10 /var/www/test/mediawiki/index.php(50): MediaWiki->run()
#11 /var/www/test/mediawiki/index.php(46): wfIndexMain()
#12 {main}

I am a little bit confused. The documentation states this extension needs MW >= 1.42.

Only the most recent version of an extension is documented, though exceptions are possible. Anyhow, you must use the version specific to the respective branch/version of MediaWiki. It should work with this version: REL1_39 (download link)

Ok, works with the above linked zip download. Thank you!

However, then it's the documentation that is incorrect. It says "This extension comes with MediaWiki 1.18 and above. Thus you do not have to download it again. However, you still need to follow the other instructions provided."

but obviously this is wrong.

Hmm, the version bundled with the tar of MediaWiki should have included the correct version of MediaWiki. Dunno what went wrong.