Apparently I was pretty grumpy about this e-mail. The last release was made in April with 15+ backports sitting there unreleased. So perhaps we will be getting a 1.28.3 (T179780).

This comment does not mean that people should not migrate to newer and supported versions of MediaWiki, i.e. 1.29.x however there may be some people wanting to wait for 1.30.x which should officially come to live this month.

More backports will definitively not be done to the 1.28 branch and this is fine.

Yeah, your grumpy email made all the difference

There will be a 1.28.3, released later today. However unless we somehow massively screw it up, it will be the last 1.28.x so people are encouraged to move to a newer branch.

Talking about goatification. Being a grumpy old goat obviously helps sometimes.