Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Local Dev/Updates

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Update 2021-08-3: [Mediawiki-Docker, Mediawiki CLI]

• New PHP and Apache images for buster were published from dev-images
• New PHP images were published from dev-images to repair Xdebug functionality
• Mediawiki CLI, which contains the newest version of Mediawiki-docker-dev, was published to https://releases.wikimedia.org/mwcli/!
• Documentation wiki page was created for Mediawiki CLI: Cli

Update 2021-01-26: [MediaWiki-Docker] Split PHP-FPM and Apache containers

• New PHP and Apache images were published from dev-images
• docker-compose.yml and DEVELOPERS.md were updated accordingly in core
• Upgraded to Xdebug 3.x

Update 2020-12-03: [MediaWiki-Docker] mw docker cli additions

• Docker-compose exec feature was added to the mw docker cli (phab:T262370)
• Error handling for the mw docker cli was updated so that errors will always be displayed. Verbosity levels were reduced to 2.

Update 2020-10-02: [MediaWiki-Docker] Support for rest.php and VisualEditor

• The MediaWiki-Docker working directory was changed to support using rest.php (phab:T261051)
• The apache config for the MediaWiki base image was updated to support loading pages with slashes in the title in visual editor (phab:T262392)

Update 2020-09-28: Verbosity levels added to mw docker cli commands

• 3 levels of verbosity were added to the mw docker cli commands so that users can choose how much information they would like to be provided by the cli