Software:MediaWiki version history

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MediaWiki is an open-source wiki engine whose first version, 1.1, was released in 2003. The following table contains the MediaWiki version history, showing all of its release versions.

Table

Version number Version note Date Links Notable changes
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1.42
1.41 December 21, 2023; 6 months ago (2023-12-21) Full release notes, Language support
1.40 June 30, 2023; 12 months ago (2023-06-30) Full release notes, Language support
1.39 (LTS) PHP 7.4+ now required November 30, 2022; 19 months ago (2022-11-30) Full release notes, Language support
  • Required PHP version bumped to 7.4.3; PHP 8.0 and 8.1 supported officially
1.38 June 2, 2022; 2 years ago (2022-06-02) Full release notes, Language support
1.37 November 18, 2021; 2 years ago (2021-11-18) Full release notes, Language support
1.36 May 28, 2021; 3 years ago (2021-05-28) Full release notes, Language support
  • Requires the PHP internationalization extension (commonly referred to as Intl, ext-intl, or php-intl).
  • Includes the new MediaWiki logo.
1.35 (LTS) September 25, 2020; 3 years ago (2020-09-25) Full release notes, Language support
  • Uses PHP 7.3.19 or newer (with exception of PHP 7.4.0 to 7.4.2 due to an upstream bug).
  • Bundles Parsoid and VisualEditor
1.34 PHP 7.2 or 7.3 now required December 19, 2019; 4 years ago (2019-12-19) Full release notes, Language support
  • HHVM no longer supported
  • Uses PHP 7.2.9 or newer
1.33 (last version to support PHP 7.0 and 7.1) July 2, 2019; 5 years ago (2019-07-02) Full release notes, Language support
1.32 January 11, 2019; 5 years ago (2019-01-11) Full release notes, Language support
1.31 (LTS) PHP 7.0+ now required June 13, 2018; 6 years ago (2018-06-13) Full release notes, Language support
  • The new skin Timeless was added
1.30 (last version to support PHP 5.6) December 12, 2017; 6 years ago (2017-12-12) Full release notes, Language support
1.29 July 13, 2017; 7 years ago (2017-07-13) Full release notes, Language support
1.28 November 28, 2016; 7 years ago (2016-11-28) Full release notes, Language support
  • Magic links are now disabled by default.
1.27 (LTS) June 28, 2016; 8 years ago (2016-06-28) Full release notes, Language support
  • Requires PHP version 5.5.9 or higher
1.26 (last version to support PHP 5.3.3) November 25, 2015; 8 years ago (2015-11-25) Full release notes, Language support
1.25 May 25, 2015; 9 years ago (2015-05-25) Full release notes, Language support
  • Hit counters removed.
1.24 November 27, 2014; 9 years ago (2014-11-27) Full release notes, Language support
  • New localizations
  • Performance improvements
  • Category pages can now be moved
  • Support for register globals was dropped
  • Many other changes
1.23 (LTS) June 5, 2014; 10 years ago (2014-06-05) Full release notes, Language support
  • Skin autodiscovery deprecated.
  • Notifications
  • CSS refresh for Vector
1.22 December 7, 2013; 10 years ago (2013-12-07) Full release notes, Language support
  • Anti-spam and countervandalism improvements.
  • Editing improvements.
  • Upgrades to Vector and other skins.
  • Support for Composer PHP dependency manager.
  • Improvements to Login and signup forms.
1.21 May 25, 2013; 11 years ago (2013-05-25) Full release notes, Language support
  • Clearer email notifications.
  • New ContentHandler.
  • Support for high DPI displays.
1.20 November 7, 2012; 11 years ago (2012-11-07) Full release notes, Language support
  • Required PHP version bumped to 5.3.2
  • New diff view, greatly improved in clarity especially for whitespace and other small changes and color-blind users.
1.19 (LTS)
(last version to support PHP 5.2.3)
May 2, 2012; 12 years ago (2012-05-02) Full release notes, Language support
  • Required MySQL version bumped to 5.0.2
  • More gender support for example in user lists
  • LanguageConverter and some magic words now depend on the page content language
1.18 (last version to support MySQL 4) November 28, 2011; 12 years ago (2011-11-28) Full release notes, Language support
  • Better directionality (LTR, RTL) support
  • User links are adapted to reflect the user's gender
  • Protocol-relative URL support
1.17 June 22, 2011; 13 years ago (2011-06-22) Full release notes, Language support
  • New installer
  • ResourceLoader
  • Category sorting improved
1.16 July 28, 2010; 13 years ago (2010-07-28) Full release notes, Language support
  • The new skin Vector was added
  • RSS/Atom feeds are now included in the watchlist
  • Blocking users from sending email via Special:Emailuser is now possible
1.15 June 10, 2009; 15 years ago (2009-06-10) Full release notes, Language support
  • Supports filename moving
  • Added keywords {{GENDER:||}}, {{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}} and {{REVISIONUSER}}
1.14 February 22, 2009; 15 years ago (2009-02-22) Full release notes, Language support
  • Supports a plaintext copyright notice (other than Creative Commons or GFDL)
  • Images can link to an arbitrary title or URL
  • Search engine indexing can be controlled on a per-page basis
  • Better CSS support for handheld devices
  • Page history pages now have a date selector
  • File upload history pages now display thumbnails for every file version
1.13 August 14, 2008; 15 years ago (2008-08-14) Full release notes, Language support
  • New special pages: FileDuplicateSearch, ListGroupRights
  • Special:UserRights and Special:SpecialPages have been redesigned
  • Hidden category feature: __HIDDENCAT__ on a category page hides the category on the article page.
  • Friendlier behaviour for users who click a red link but can't edit
  • Double redirects created by a page move can be fixed automatically
1.12 March 20, 2008; 16 years ago (2008-03-20) Full release notes, Language support
  • Internationalization and localization has made a huge step forward; a lot more translations, new translations are now also committed to 1.12, Special:Version is localizable, support for Hebrew, Thai and Iranian calendar.
  • Parser preprocessor rewritten
  • Userrights interface improved and generalized
1.11 September 10, 2007; 16 years ago (2007-09-10) Full release notes, Language support
  • $wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups are added to allow finer control over usergroup assignment
  • AJAX-based page watching has been cleaned up and enabled by default
1.10 May 9, 2007; 17 years ago (2007-05-09) Full release notes, Language support
  • "Cascading protection" feature
  • Improved tooltips and accesskey feature
  • Various improvements to blocking and special page caching
  • IPv6 support
1.9 January 10, 2007; 17 years ago (2007-01-10) Full release notes, Language support
  • "Undo revision" feature
  • Various improvements to blocking and special page caching
  • Tables with sortable columns
  • Addition of an edit counter field to the user database
  • Revision size displayed on watchlists and recent changes
  • The names of Special: pages can now be localized, so links and URLs to them are more legible in languages that aren't English.
1.8 October 10, 2006; 17 years ago (2006-10-10) Full release notes, Language support
  • Full support for PostgreSQL (8.1 or better) database backend
  • Support for DjVu thumbnailing and multipage navigation
  • Various improvements to user blocking; blocks can be made to affect only unregistered users using a particular IP address
  • Uploading files from publicly accessible URLs is possible if enabled
1.7 July 7, 2006; 18 years ago (2006-07-07) Full release notes, Language support
  • MediaWiki 1.7 requires PHP 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
  • Deleted files can now be restored.
1.6 (last version to support PHP 4) April 5, 2006; 18 years ago (2006-04-05) Full release notes, Language support
  • Page protection/unprotection uses a new, expanded form.
  • "Job queue" for background updates.
  • Improved tracking of template usage.
  • Template parameters can have default values.
1.5 (last version to support MySQL 3) October 5, 2005; 18 years ago (2005-10-05) Full release notes, Language support
  • Major database redesign decoupling text storage from revision tracking, resulting in:
    • Significant performance boosts for some operations.
    • Permalink functionality for all revisions.
    • Support for storing bulk data outside the main database.
  • Support for e-mail notification upon changes.
  • Page content must be encoded in UTF-8.
1.4 March 20, 2005; 19 years ago (2005-03-20) Full release notes, Language support
  • User interface language can be changed by the user.
  • Significant performance improvements.
  • Support for compressing old revisions of articles to reduce storage needs.
  • Image gallery generation, list of recently uploaded images.
  • SVG rasterization support (requires external support tools).
1.3 August 11, 2004; 19 years ago (2004-08-11) Full release notes
  • New, highly CSS-based default look and feel ("MonoBook" skin) and better web standards compliance.
  • Parametrized templates.
  • Category feature.
  • Automatic merging of edit conflicts when possible.
  • Improved installation.
1.2 March 24, 2004; 20 years ago (2004-03-24) Full release notes
  • Experimental web-based installer.
  • Image resizing and thumbnail generation.
  • Editing toolbar for learning wiki syntax.
  • User rights management within the wiki.
1.1 December 8, 2003; 20 years ago (2003-12-08) Full release notes
  • New wiki table syntax.
  • User-editable interface messages through "MediaWiki namespace".
  • XML-wrapped page source export with optional history.
  • "Magic words" – special variables and parser instructions.

Timeline

See also

  • Special:Version, special MediaWiki page that shows the current installed software. It is available on all MediaWiki sites.

External links

  • MediaWiki release notes on mediawiki.org
  • MediaWiki version lifecycle on mediawiki.org