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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0705.00011.] Trivial extensions \(\mathbb{A}\ltimes F\) of abelian categories \(\mathbb{A}\) by endofunctors \(F: \mathbb{A}\to\mathbb{A}\) satisfying certain conditions are studied by \textit{R. M. Fossum}, \textit{P. A. Griffith} and \textit{I. Reiten} [Trivial extensions of Abelian categories (Lect. Notes Math. 456) (1975; Zbl 0303.18006)]. In the reviewed paper the notion of a trivial extension is extended by defining a nontrivial extension \(\mathbb{A}\ltimes_ R F\) of an abelian category \(\mathbb{A}\) with limits by a right exact additive functor \(F:\mathbb{A}\to\mathbb{A}_ 0\) with respect to a certain map \(R:\text{ ob}(\mathbb{A}\ltimes F)\to\text{ob}\mathbb{A}\), where \(\mathbb{A}_ 0\) is a fixed full subcategory of \(\mathbb{A}\) which is closed under the formation of limits and subobjects. Some of the well-known results for trivial extensions the author extends to the more general case studied in the paper. In particular, under suitable assumptions, results on the global dimension and the finitistic dimension of the category \(\mathbb{A}\ltimes_ R F\) are presented.