[MediaWiki::Bot] Release announcement v5.6.2

[Mike.lifeguard]

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Hello,

On September 1, version 5.6.0 of MediaWiki::Bot, the high-level
library for interacting with MediaWiki wikis like Wikipedia, was
released. Today, I am releasing v5.6.1 and v5.6.2 (just a repackaged
version).

These releases include a fix for the new CSRF token handling that has
been deployed to Wikimedia Foundation wikis. If you work on WMF wikis
and have encountered problems with requests that mutate the wiki,
please upgrade to resolve this.

I have also added rudimentary support for handling CAPTCHAs. This has
been a longstanding omission from the library, and should make life
easier for developers using non-bot accounts, which are more likely to
encounter CAPTCHAs.

I have also added a new library of constants,
MediaWiki::Bot::Constants, which give symbolic names to the library's
numeric return codes.

In a similar vein, the main documentation has been improved with links
to the relevant API calls on mediawiki.org, to better inform the
developer.

Finally, HTTPS is used by default. You should *never* log in over
HTTP, and attempting to do so will now issue a warning. Because WMF
wikis now support SSL on the main sites, most bots should work without
modification. Using the old deprecated secure server will emit a
deprecation warning.

These releases also make the test suite much more robust, and should
drastically improve CPANtesters statistics, which helps ensure we have
a high signal:noise ratio from CPANtesters, as well as travis-ci.

To upgrade, use your standard cpan client:

shell$ cpan
cpan> upgrade MediaWiki::Bot
...

Or, upgrade manually by downloading[0] and extracting the tarball. Then:

shell$ perl Build.PL
shell$ ./Build && ./Build test && ./Build install

If you encounter problems upgrading, or using the latest versions,
please request help on the mailing list, in IRC (#perlwikibot on
irc.freenode.net) or file a bug in the issue tracker
(https://github.com/MediaWiki-Bot/MediaWiki-Bot/issues)

Enjoy,
- -Mike

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https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/L/LI/LIFEGUARD/MediaWiki-Bot-5.006002.tar.gz
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