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Date |
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Notable changes |
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| Future release: 1.38 |
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| Current stable version: 1.37 |
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November 18, 2021; 4 years ago (2021-11-18) |
Full release notes, Language support |
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| Older version, yet still maintained: 1.36 |
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May 28, 2021; 4 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.
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| Older version, yet still maintained: 1.35 |
(LTS) |
September 25, 2020; 5 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
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| Old version, no longer maintained: 1.34 |
PHP 7.2 or 7.3 now required |
December 19, 2019; 5 years ago (2019-12-19) |
Full release notes, Language support |
- HHVM no longer supported
- Uses PHP 7.2.9 or newer
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| Old version, no longer maintained: 1.33 |
(last version to support PHP 7.0 and 7.1) |
July 2, 2019; 6 years ago (2019-07-02) |
Full release notes, Language support |
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| Old version, no longer maintained: 1.32 |
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January 11, 2019; 6 years ago (2019-01-11) |
Full release notes, Language support |
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| Old version, no longer maintained: 1.31 |
(LTS) PHP 7.0+ now required |
June 13, 2018; 7 years ago (2018-06-13) |
Full release notes, Language support |
- The new skin Timeless was added
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| Old version, no longer maintained: 1.30 |
(last version to support PHP 5.6) |
December 12, 2017; 8 years ago (2017-12-12) |
Full release notes, Language support |
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| Old version, no longer maintained: 1.29 |
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July 13, 2017; 8 years ago (2017-07-13) |
Full release notes, Language support |
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| Old version, no longer maintained: 1.28 |
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November 28, 2016; 9 years ago (2016-11-28) |
Full release notes, Language support |
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| Old version, no longer maintained: 1.27 |
(LTS) |
June 28, 2016; 9 years ago (2016-06-28) |
Full release notesTemplate:Fix/category[dead link], Language support |
- Requires PHP version 5.5.9 or higher
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| Old version, no longer maintained: 1.26 |
(last version to support PHP 5.3.3) |
November 25, 2015; 10 years ago (2015-11-25) |
Full release notesTemplate:Fix/category[dead link], Language support |
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| Old version, no longer maintained: 1.25 |
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May 25, 2015; 10 years ago (2015-05-25) |
Full release notesTemplate:Fix/category[dead link], Language support |
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| Old version, no longer maintained: 1.24 |
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November 27, 2014; 11 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
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| Old version, no longer maintained: 1.23 |
(LTS) |
June 5, 2014; 11 years ago (2014-06-05) |
Full release notesTemplate:Fix/category[dead link], Language support |
- Skin autodiscovery deprecated.
- Notifications
- CSS refresh for Vector
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| Old version, no longer maintained: 1.22 |
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December 7, 2013; 12 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.
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| Old version, no longer maintained: 1.21 |
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May 25, 2013; 12 years ago (2013-05-25) |
Full release notes, Language support |
- Clearer email notifications.
- New ContentHandler.
- Support for high DPI displays.
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| Old version, no longer maintained: 1.20 |
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November 7, 2012; 13 years ago (2012-11-07) |
Full release notesTemplate:Fix/category[dead link], 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.
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| Old version, no longer maintained: 1.19 |
(LTS) (last version to support PHP 5.2.3) |
May 2, 2012; 13 years ago (2012-05-02) |
Full release notesTemplate:Fix/category[dead link], 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
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| Old version, no longer maintained: 1.18 |
(last version to support MySQL 4) |
November 28, 2011; 14 years ago (2011-11-28) |
Full release notesTemplate:Fix/category[dead link], Language support |
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| Old version, no longer maintained: 1.17 |
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June 22, 2011; 14 years ago (2011-06-22) |
Full release notesTemplate:Fix/category[dead link], Language support |
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| Old version, no longer maintained: 1.16 |
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July 28, 2010; 15 years ago (2010-07-28) |
Full release notesTemplate:Fix/category[dead link], 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
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| Old version, no longer maintained: 1.15 |
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June 10, 2009; 16 years ago (2009-06-10) |
Full release notesTemplate:Fix/category[dead link], Language support |
- Supports filename moving
- Added keywords {{GENDER:||}}, {{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}} and {{REVISIONUSER}}
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| Old version, no longer maintained: 1.14 |
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February 22, 2009; 16 years ago (2009-02-22) |
Full release notesTemplate:Fix/category[dead link], 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
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| Old version, no longer maintained: 1.13 |
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August 14, 2008; 17 years ago (2008-08-14) |
Full release notesTemplate:Fix/category[dead link], 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
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| Old version, no longer maintained: 1.12 |
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March 20, 2008; 17 years ago (2008-03-20) |
Full release notesTemplate:Fix/category[dead link], Language support |
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| Old version, no longer maintained: 1.11 |
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September 10, 2007; 18 years ago (2007-09-10) |
Full release notesTemplate:Fix/category[dead link], 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
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| Old version, no longer maintained: 1.10 |
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May 9, 2007; 18 years ago (2007-05-09) |
Full release notesTemplate:Fix/category[dead link], Language support |
- "Cascading protection" feature
- Improved tooltips and accesskey feature
- Various improvements to blocking and special page caching
- IPv6 support
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| Old version, no longer maintained: 1.9 |
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January 10, 2007; 18 years ago (2007-01-10) |
Full release notesTemplate:Fix/category[dead link], 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.
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| Old version, no longer maintained: 1.8 |
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October 10, 2006; 19 years ago (2006-10-10) |
Full release notesTemplate:Fix/category[dead link], 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
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| Old version, no longer maintained: 1.7 |
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July 7, 2006; 19 years ago (2006-07-07) |
Full release notesTemplate:Fix/category[dead link], Language support |
- MediaWiki 1.7 requires PHP 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
- Deleted files can now be restored.
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| Old version, no longer maintained: 1.6 |
(last version to support PHP 4) |
April 5, 2006; 19 years ago (2006-04-05) |
Full release notesTemplate:Fix/category[dead link], 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.
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| Old version, no longer maintained: 1.5 |
(last version to support MySQL 3) |
October 5, 2005; 20 years ago (2005-10-05) |
Full release notesTemplate:Fix/category[dead link], 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.
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| Old version, no longer maintained: 1.4 |
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March 20, 2005; 20 years ago (2005-03-20) |
Full release notesTemplate:Fix/category[dead link], 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).
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| Old version, no longer maintained: 1.3 |
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August 11, 2004; 21 years ago (2004-08-11) |
Full release notesTemplate:Fix/category[dead link] |
- 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.
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| Old version, no longer maintained: 1.2 |
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March 24, 2004; 21 years ago (2004-03-24) |
Full release notesTemplate:Fix/category[dead link] |
- Experimental web-based installer.
- Image resizing and thumbnail generation.
- Editing toolbar for learning wiki syntax.
- User rights management within the wiki.
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| Old version, no longer maintained: 1.1 |
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December 8, 2003; 22 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.
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