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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.

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Version number Version note Date Links Notable changes
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Old version, not maintained
Old version, still maintained
Latest version
Latest preview version
Future release
Future release: 1.44
Current stable version: 1.43 (LTS) PHP 8.1+ now required December 21, 2024; 1 day ago (2024-12-21) Full release notes, Language support
Old version, yet still maintained: 1.42 June 27, 2024; 5 months ago (2024-06-27) Full release notes, Language support
Old version, yet still maintained: 1.41 December 21, 2023; 12 months ago (2023-12-21) Full release notes, Language support
Old version, no longer maintained: 1.40 June 30, 2023; 17 months ago (2023-06-30) Full release notes, Language support
Old version, yet still maintained: 1.39 (LTS) PHP 7.4+ now required November 30, 2022; 2 years 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
Old version, no longer maintained: 1.38 June 2, 2022; 2 years ago (2022-06-02) Full release notes, Language support
Old version, no longer maintained: 1.37 November 18, 2021; 3 years ago (2021-11-18) Full release notes, Language support
Old version, no longer maintained: 1.36 May 28, 2021; 3 years ago (2021-05-28) Full release notes, Language support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.
Old version, no longer maintained: 1.35 (LTS) September 25, 2020; 4 years ago (2020-09-25) Full release notes, Language support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
Old version, no longer maintained: 1.34 PHP 7.2 or 7.3 now required December 19, 2019; 5 years ago (2019-12-19) Full release notes, Language support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
Old version, no longer maintained: 1.33 (last version to support PHP 7.0 and 7.1) July 2, 2019; 5 years ago (2019-07-02) Full release notes, Language support
Old version, no longer maintained: 1.32 January 11, 2019; 5 years ago (2019-01-11) Full release notes, Language support
Old version, no longer maintained: 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
Old version, no longer maintained: 1.30 (last version to support PHP 5.6) December 12, 2017; 7 years ago (2017-12-12) Full release notes, Language support
Old version, no longer maintained: 1.29 July 13, 2017; 7 years ago (2017-07-13) Full release notes, Language support
Old version, no longer maintained: 1.28 November 28, 2016; 8 years ago (2016-11-28) Full release notes, Language support
Old version, no longer maintained: 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
Old version, no longer maintained: 1.26 (last version to support PHP 5.3.3) November 25, 2015; 9 years ago (2015-11-25) Full release notes, Language support
Old version, no longer maintained: 1.25 May 25, 2015; 9 years ago (2015-05-25) Full release notes, Language support
Old version, no longer maintained: 1.24 November 27, 2014; 10 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
Old version, no longer maintained: 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
Old version, no longer maintained: 1.22 December 7, 2013; 11 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.
Old version, no longer maintained: 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.
Old version, no longer maintained: 1.20 November 7, 2012; 12 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.
Old version, no longer maintained: 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
  • First long-term support version, supported for 4 versions released after this version
Old version, no longer maintained: 1.18 (last version to support MySQL 4) November 28, 2011; 13 years ago (2011-11-28) Full release notes, Language support
Old version, no longer maintained: 1.17 June 22, 2011; 13 years ago (2011-06-22) Full release notes, Language support
Old version, no longer maintained: 1.16 July 28, 2010; 14 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
Old version, no longer maintained: 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}}
Old version, no longer maintained: 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
Old version, no longer maintained: 1.13 August 14, 2008; 16 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
Old version, no longer maintained: 1.12 March 20, 2008; 16 years ago (2008-03-20) Full release notes, Language support
Old version, no longer maintained: 1.11 September 10, 2007; 17 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
Old version, no longer maintained: 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
Old version, no longer maintained: 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.
Old version, no longer maintained: 1.8 October 10, 2006; 18 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
Old version, no longer maintained: 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.
Old version, no longer maintained: 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.
Old version, no longer maintained: 1.5 (last version to support MySQL 3) October 5, 2005; 19 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.
Old version, no longer maintained: 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).
Old version, no longer maintained: 1.3 August 11, 2004; 20 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.
Old version, no longer maintained: 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.
Old version, no longer maintained: 1.1 December 8, 2003; 21 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

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See also

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  • Special:Version, special MediaWiki page that shows the current installed software, which is version 1.44.0-wmf.8 (f08e6b3) on this wiki. It is available on all MediaWiki sites.
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