Update the CrawlerProtection extension - #690
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Moves the Recommended Revisions pin from 344e7b3 to 1cddaaa, which carries CrawlerProtection 1.7.0 in place of 1.5.0. The change that reaches a wiki configuring nothing is that protection is now skipped in CLI and maintenance context: a maintenance script re-parsing a page that transcludes a protected special page used to trip the anonymous-user check and deny itself. The rest is opt-in — api.php and rest.php entry points can be protected via CrawlerProtectedApiModules and CrawlerProtectedRestPaths, both empty by default; the IP allowlist gains CrawlerProtectionTrustXForwardedFor and CrawlerProtectionTreatTempUsersAsAnon; and a CrawlerProtectionShouldDeny hook allows a bespoke access policy.
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Moves the Recommended Revisions pin from
344e7b3to1cddaaa.1cddaaaCrawlerProtection 1.7.0 over the pinned 1.5.0:
api.phpandrest.phpentry points can now be protected, via$wgCrawlerProtectedApiModulesand$wgCrawlerProtectedRestPaths. Both default to empty, so they are inert until configured.$wgCrawlerProtectionTrustXForwardedForfor wikis whose proxy is not in$wgCdnServersNoPurge, and$wgCrawlerProtectionTreatTempUsersAsAnonfor temporary accounts.CrawlerProtectionShouldDenyhook for a bespoke access policy; denials are markednoindex,nofollow; the raw denial text moved to a message key, so it is translatable.Every new setting defaults to off or empty, and
requiresstays MediaWiki>= 1.39.4.Goes in ahead of the 3.5.20 release PR, which will then carry only the base image pin,
VERSIONand the release note.Fixes #689