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Recent news

2016-11-28

• MediaWiki 1.28.0 release is now available

2016-08-22

• MediaWiki 1.27.1, 1.26.4, 1.23.15 security releases are now available.

2016-08-02

• The Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016 videos have been published to Commons.

2016-06-28

• MediaWiki 1.27.0 release (LTS) is now available
•  Note: MediaWiki 1.25.x versions are now end of life.

2016-05-20

• MediaWiki 1.26.3, 1.25.6, and 1.23.14 security releases are now available.

Older news

2015-12-21

• MediaWiki 1.26.2, 1.25.5, 1.24.6, and 1.23.13 maintenance releases are now available.

2015-12-17

• MediaWiki 1.26.1, 1.25.4, 1.24.5, and 1.23.12 security releases are now available.

2015-11-25

• MediaWiki 1.26.0 is now available

2015-10-16

• MediaWiki 1.25.3, 1.24.4, and 1.23.11 security releases are now available.

2015-08-10

• MediaWiki 1.25.2, 1.24.3, and 1.23.10 security releases are now available.

2015-06-30

• From MediaWiki 1.26wmf12 onwards, the old continuation mode of the API for action=query doesn't work (details).

2015-06-12

• Wikimedia sites begin requiring HTTPS (including API requests)

2015-05-25

• MediaWiki 1.25.1 maintenance release is now available.
• MediaWiki 1.25.0 is now available, and 1.19 is officially EOL.

2015-03-31

• MediaWiki 1.24.2, 1.23.9, and 1.19.24 security releases are now available.

2015-02-11

• The VisualEditor project invites the community to participate in weekly triage meetings.

2014-12-17

• MediaWiki 1.24.1, 1.23.8, 1.22.15 and 1.19.23 security releases are now available.

2014-11-26

• MediaWiki 1.24.0 is now available.
• MediaWiki 1.23.7, 1.22.14 and 1.19.22 security releases are now available.

2014-10-29

• MediaWiki 1.23.6, 1.22.13 and 1.19.21 releases are now available.

2014-10-01

• MediaWiki 1.23.5, 1.22.12 and 1.19.20 security releases are now available.

2014-09-24

• MediaWiki 1.23.4, 1.22.11 and 1.19.19 security and maintenance releases are now available.

2014-08-27

• MediaWiki 1.23.3 and 1.22.10 maintenance releases are now available.

2014-07-30

• MediaWiki 1.23.2, 1.22.9 and 1.19.18 security and maintenance releases are now available.

2014-06-25

• MediaWiki 1.23.1, 1.22.8, 1.21.11 and 1.19.17 security and maintenance releases are now available.

2014-06-05

• MediaWiki 1.23.0 is now available.

2014-05-29

• MediaWiki 1.22.7, 1.21.10 and 1.19.16 security and maintenance releases are now available.

2014-04-24

• MediaWiki 1.22.6 and 1.21.9 security releases are now available.
• MediaWiki 1.23.0 release candidate is now available.

2014-04-02

• MediaWiki 1.19.15 maintenance release is now available.

2014-03-27

• MediaWiki 1.22.5, 1.21.8 and 1.19.14 security releases are now available.

2014-03-11

• MediaWiki 1.19.13 security release is now available.
• MediaWiki 1.22.4 and 1.21.7 are now available.

2014-02-27

• MediaWiki 1.22.3, 1.21.6, and 1.19.12 security releases are now available.

2014-01-28

• MediaWiki 1.22.2, 1.21.5, and 1.19.11 security releases are now available.

2014-01-13

• MediaWiki 1.22.1, 1.21.4, and 1.19.10 security releases are now available.

2013-12-06

• MediaWiki 1.22.0 is now available.

2013-12-03

• MediaWiki 1.22.0rc3 is now available.

2013-11-17

• MediaWiki 1.22.0rc2 is now available.

2013-11-14

• MediaWiki 1.21.3, 1.20.8 and 1.19.9 security releases are now available.

2013-09-12

• VipsScaler implementation by volunteer developer improves image handling on Wikimedia sites

2013-09-03

• MediaWiki 1.21.2, 1.20.7 and 1.19.8 security releases are now available.

2013-05-29

• MediaWiki 1.21.1 bug fix release is now available.

2013-05-25

• MediaWiki 1.21.0 is now available.

2013-05-21

• MediaWiki 1.20.6 and 1.19.7 security releases are now available.

2013-05-09

• Watch & test the upcoming user discussion pages in Wikipedia / MediaWiki (more)

2013-04-30

• MediaWiki 1.20.5 and 1.19.6 security releases are now available.

2013-04-17

• Mobile testers: visit 3 pages. All mobile devices welcome!

2013-04-15

• MediaWiki 1.20.4 and 1.19.5 security releases are now available.

2013-04-09

• Kiwix for Android released

2013-04-08

• Wikimedia has been accepted into Google Summer of Code.

2013-04-04

• Join us this Saturday with Weekend Testing Americas and the upcoming Account creation UX

2013-03-13

• Lua meets Wikipedia meetup in SF + video stream

2013-03-11

• QA weekly goal: browser automation testing for Wikipedia search

2013-03-08

• Wikimedia Hackathon in Amsterdam, May 24-26. Registration open.

2013-03-06

• Join our Bug Day tomorrow and help triaging MediaWiki - General reports.

2013-03-04

• MediaWiki 1.20.3 and 1.19.4 security releases are now available.

2013-02-22

• Wikipedia starts supporting the Lua scripting language for writing templates
• Video: Wikimedia & wikiHow mobile updates

2013-02-21

• Smartphone photographers: join the Wikimedia Commons mobile uploads testing week, starting on Feb 25.
• The Signpost Technology report: Better templates and 3D buildings.

2013-02-20

• MediaWiki extensions, gadgets, and modules at SCALE 11x - this weekend in Los Angeles.

2013-02-11

• The MediaWiki community will apply to be part of the 2013 edition of Google Summer of Code (announcement).

2013-02-08

• PageImages extension aims to return the single most appropriate thumbnail associated with an article.
• Echo: A new notification system for Wikipedia
• Mediawiki is on Packagist
• How to hack on Wikipedia presentation at FOSDEM - video & slides

2013-02-05

• The Signpost Technology report: Wikidata team targets English Wikipedia deployment
• Commons app project starts releasing nightly builds of Android version for testing.

2013-02-04

• From duct tape to puppets: How a new data center became an opportunity to do things right
• Wikipedia Mobile Hits 3 Billion Monthly Page Views
• Kiwix project leader interview.
• Wikimedia IdeaLab is an experiment in user-friendly grantmaking - applies to software projects as well.

2013-01-31

• Our sessions at FOSDEM:

  How MediaWiki is tested

  Research / Data Analyst

  How to hack on Wikipedia

• GeoData: a new age of geotagging on Wikipedia - based on the GeoData extension
• The Signpost technology report: Developers get ready for FOSDEM amid caching problems

2013-01-30

• XOWA - A free, open-source, offline Wikipedia application (developer intro)

2013-01-29

• QA weekly goals:

  Review 250 open bugs unchanged for more than one year

  VisualEditor: Testing Non-Latin Characters Input and Behavior

2013-01-26

• New Wikivoyage app for Android (Google Play link)

2013-01-25

• MediaWiki SVN repository marked as read-only
• Check the roadmap of Parsoid, the wikitext / HTML / RDF translator required by the VisualEditor extension.
• Wikimedia Foundation is looking for: Technical Writer

2013-01-23

• The Signpost technology report: Data centre migration successful
• Wikimedians attending Wikimania 2013 in Hong Kong this August can apply for a scholarship (deadline: Feb 22)

2013-01-19

• Wikimedia sites to move to primary data center in Ashburn, Virginia
• Next Bug Day: Jan 29, 17:00-23:00 UTC

2013-01-18

• New grants available from the Wikimedia Foundation for individual Wikimedians
• New manual for using Pywikibot for Wikidata
• Beautiful demo video showcasing Seizam's collaborative features
• Strapping, a friendly starter theme for MediaWiki - in use at oVirt.org
• Mailing list for Editor Engagement tech now open - see welcome message

2013-01-17

• Video: Solr use in MediaWiki Translate extension, by Niklas Laxström
• BlueSpice 1.20.1 patch release (notes)
• How To Install MediaWiki on Rackspace Cloud Sites Video Guide

2013-01-16

• Intermittent outages planned, first Wikidata client deployment - The Signpost Technology report

2013-01-14

• Promotion, marketing & outreach at the new MediaWiki Group Promotion
• MediaWiki Group San Francisco becomes our first local group
• Putting together a list of MediaWiki vendors

2013-01-11

• Wikimedia Foundation is looking for: Tools Lab Operations Engineer (Contractor)
• Wikipedia Mobile Beta: a sandbox for new experimental features
• A more efficient translation interface (includes demo video)

2013-01-10

• Wikimedia engineering December 2012 report

2013-01-09

• MediaWiki 1.21 is under development. Watch its wiki page and follow the thread at wikitech-l.
• Looking ahead to 2013 - The Signpost Technology report

2013-01-08

• Diff 0.4 released

2013-01-07

• MediaWiki community metrics December report
• BlueSpice MediaWiki 1.20 stable release now available

2013-01-05

• Wikimedia Foundation is looking for: Site Reliability Engineer

2013-01-03

• Natural Language Processing for MediaWiki: First major release of the Semantic Assistants Wiki-NLP Integration
• Meet the Echo development team on Jan 8 and learn about the upcoming notifications framework for MediaWiki
• MediaWiki Workshop in Kolkata this Saturday at MozTI@BESU

2013-01-01

• Wikimedia’s Bug Management

2012-12-04: 1.20.2 released

• MediaWiki 1.20.2 is now available.

2012-11-30: 1.20.1, 1.19.3, 1.18.6 released

• MediaWiki 1.20.1, 1.19.3 and 1.18.6 security releases are now available.

2012-11-07: 1.20.0 released

• MediaWiki 1.20.0 is now available.

2012-08-31: 1.19.2, 1.18.5 released

• MediaWiki 1.19.2 and 1.18.5 security releases are now available.

2012-06-13: 1.19.1, 1.18.4, 1.17.5 released

• MediaWiki 1.19.1, MediaWiki 1.18.4 and MediaWiki 1.17.5 security releases now available.

2012-05-02: 1.19.0 released

• MediaWiki 1.19.0 is now available.

2012-04-26: 1.19.0 rc1 released

• MediaWiki 1.19.0 rc 1 is now available.

2012-04-26: 1.18.3 released

• MediaWiki 1.18.3 is now available.

2012-04-26: 1.17.4 released

• MediaWiki 1.17.4 is now available.

2012-03-27: Switch to Git: Complete for core & WMF extensions

• MediaWiki core + extensions WMF deploys have switched to Git (details).

2012-03-22: 1.19.0 beta2 released

• MediaWiki 1.19.0 beta 2 is now available.

2012-03-22: 1.18.2 released

• MediaWiki 1.18.2 security release is now available.

2012-03-22: 1.17.3 released

• MediaWiki 1.17.3 security release is now available.

2012-03-07: 1.19.0 beta1 released

• MediaWiki 1.19.0 beta 1 is now available.

2012-02-29: Switch to Git: March 21

• Postponing Git migration until March 21

2012-02-26: Switch to Git in one week

• MediaWiki core + extensions WMF deploys will switch from Subversion to Git on 3 March 2012.

2012-01-11: 1.18.1 released

• MediaWiki 1.18.1 security & maintenance release is now available.

2012-01-11: 1.17.2 released

• MediaWiki 1.17.2 security release is now available.

2011-11-28: 1.18.0 released

• MediaWiki 1.18.0 has been released.

2011-11-28: 1.17.1 released

• MediaWiki 1.17.1 security release is now available.

2011-11-18: 1.18.0rc1 released

• MediaWiki 1.18.0rc1 is now available.

2011-11-04: 1.18 beta1 released

• MediaWiki 1.18 beta 1 is now available.

2011-06-22: 1.17.0 released

• MediaWiki 1.17.0 has been released.

2011-06-14: 1.17.0rc1 released

• MediaWiki 1.17.0rc1 is now available.

2011-05-05: 1.17 beta 1 released

• MediaWiki 1.17 beta 1 is now available.

2011-05-05: 1.16.5 released

• MediaWiki 1.16.5 security release available.

2011-04-14: 1.16.4 released

• MediaWiki 1.16.4 security release available.

2011-04-12: 1.16.3 released

• MediaWiki 1.16.3 security release available.

2011-02-01: 1.16.2 released

• MediaWiki 1.16.2 security release available.

2011-01-04: 1.16.1 released

• MediaWiki 1.16.1 security release available.

2010-07-28: 1.16.0 and 1.15.5 released

• MediaWiki 1.16.0 and 1.15.5 security release available

2010-05-28: 1.15.4, 1.16.0beta3 released

• MediaWiki 1.15.4 and 1.16.0beta3 security release available

2010-04-07: 1.15.3, 1.16.0beta2 released

• MediaWiki 1.15.3 and 1.16.0beta2 security release available

2010-03-12: 1.16.0beta1 released

• MediaWiki 1.16.0beta1 release available

2010-03-08: 1.15.2 released

• MediaWiki 1.15.2 bugfix release available

2009-07-13: 1.15.1, 1.14.1 released

• MediaWiki 1.15.1 bugfix release available
• MediaWiki 1.14.1 bugfix release available

2009-06-10: 1.15.0 released

• MediaWiki 1.15.0 quarterly release available

2009-05-16: 1.15.0rc1 released

• MediaWiki 1.15.0rc1 release candidate available

2009-02-22: 1.14.0, 1.13.5 released

• MediaWiki 1.14.0 quarterly release available
• MediaWiki 1.13.5 bugfix release available

2009-02-07: 1.13.4, 1.12.4, 1.6.12, and 1.14.0rc1 released

• Security updates available
• MediaWiki 1.14.0rc1 release candidate available

2008-12-15: 1.13.3, 1.12.2, 1.6.11 released

• Security updates available

2008-10-02: 1.13.2, 1.12.1 released

• Security updates MediaWiki 1.13.2 and 1.12.1 available

2008-09-06: 1.13.1 released

• MediaWiki 1.13.1 bugfix release available

2008-08-14: 1.13.0 quarterly release

• MediaWiki 1.13.0 final release available, see Manual:Upgrading.

2008-08-11: 1.13.0rc2 release candidate

• MediaWiki 1.13.0rc2 release candidate available

2008-07-25: 1.13.0rc1 release candidate

• MediaWiki 1.13.0rc1 release candidate available.

2008-03-20: 1.12.0 quarterly release

• MediaWiki 1.12.0 final release available, see Manual:Upgrading.

2008-03-11: 1.12.0rc1 release candidate

• MediaWiki 1.12.0rc1 release candidate available.

2008-03-02: 1.11.2 security update, 1.10.4, 1.9.6 bugfix updates

• Security updates available.
• Bug fixes for regressions in previous security fix

2008-01-23: 1.11.1, 1.10.3, 1.9.5 security updates

• Security updates available.

2007-09-10: 1.11.0 new stable branch

• Quarterly branch available, see Manual:Upgrading to 1.11.

2007-09-10: 1.10.2, 1.9.4, 1.8.5 security updates

• Security updates available.

2007-09-05: 1.11.0 branch release candidate

• MediaWiki 1.11.0rc1 release candidate available.

2007-07-23

• MediaWiki 1.11.0 release will be held back until mid-August, after the Wikimania 2007 conference, to allow for better testing of new features.

2007-07-13: 1.10.1 bugfix release

• MediaWiki 1.10.1 update

2007-05-09: 1.10.0 new stable branch

• MediaWiki 1.10.0 final release available, see Manual:Upgrading to 1.10.

2007-05-04: 1.10.0 branch release candidate

• MediaWiki 1.10.0rc2 release candidate available.

2007-04-30: 1.10.0 branch release candidate

• MediaWiki 1.10.0rc1 release candidate available.

2007-04-12

• MediaWiki 1.10.0 release will be held back until the latter half of April to allow for better testing, performance tuning

2007-02-20: 1.9.3, 1.8.4, 1.7.3, 1.6.10 security fix releases

• Patched Internet Explorer-specific XSS vulnerability in non-default configuration (with experimental AJAX features enabled).

2007-02-04: 1.9.2 fix release

• Patched XSS vulnerability in sortable tables; all 1.9 users should upgrade.
• Fixes to Creative Commons license configuration, optional storage compression.

2007-01-24: 1.9.1 bug fix release

• Fixes to installation/upgrade, IIS, Opera/Mac and Firefox/X11 tooltip labels, security fix for optional DjVu support, and other fixes.

2007-01-10: 1.9.0 new stable branch

• Quarterly release updates, see also Upgrading to 1.9.

2007-01-09: 1.9.0rc2 testing release; 1.8.3, 1.7.2, 1.6.9 security fix releases

• Patched XSS vulnerability in non-default configuration (with experimental AJAX features enabled).

2006-10-13: 1.8.2 bug fix release

• Fix for non-ASCII namespaces on Windows servers.

2006-10-11: 1.8.1 bug fix release

• Installer PHP 5 check, register_globals paranoia, disabled potentially information-leaky backtraces.

2006-10-10: 1.8.0 new stable branch

• Quarterly release updates, see also Upgrading to 1.8.

2006-07-08: 1.7.1, 1.6.8 bug fix releases

• Fixed some installer issues in 1.7.
• Potential XSS with vulnerable PHP versions patched.

2006-07-07: 1.7.0 new stable branch

• Quarterly release updates, see also Upgrading to 1.7.

2006-06-06: Fix for XSS in 1.6 branch

• All 1.6 installations should upgrade to 1.6.7. 1.5.x and earlier may be affected by some problems with extensions.

2006-05-23: Fix for XSS in 1.6 branch

• All 1.6 installations should upgrade to 1.6.6. 1.5.x and earlier not affected.

2006-05-02: 1.6.5 more fixes

• Various fixes for other corner cases. 1.6.4 was slightly buggy.

2006-04-10: 1.6.3 installer fixes

• Installation on MySQL 4.0 older than 4.0.18 should work again.

2006-04-08: 1.6.2 extension fixes

• Extension tags with "/" in parameters work again. Some more installer fixlets.

2006-04-05: 1.6.1 installer fixes

• A few bugs affecting some installs on 1.6.0 fixed.

2006-04-05: 1.6.0 new stable branch

• Quarterly release brings fun new features, see also Upgrading to 1.6.

2006-03-26: 1.5.8 and 1.4.15 fix XSS injection bug

• HTML injection in encoded page links.

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