| Version number
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Version note
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Date
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Links
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Notable changes
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| 1.27
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(LTS)
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2016-06-28
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Full release notes, Language support
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- Requires PHP version 5.5.9 or higher
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| 1.26
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(last version to support PHP 5.3.3)
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2015-11-25
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Full release notes, Language support
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| 1.25
|
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2015-05-25
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Full release notes, Language support
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| 1.24
|
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2014-11-27
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Full release notes, Language support
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- New localizations
- Performance improvements
- Category pages can now be moved
- Support for register_globals was dropped
- Many other changes
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| 1.23
|
(LTS)
|
2014-06-05
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Full release notes, Language support
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- Skin autodiscovery deprecated.
- Notifications
- CSS refresh for Vector
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| 1.22
|
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2013-12-07
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Full release notes, Language support
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- 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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| 1.21
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2013-05-25
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Full release notes, Language support
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- Clearer email notifications.
- New ContentHandler.
- Support for high DPI displays.
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| 1.20
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2012-11-07
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Full release notes, Language support
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- 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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| 1.19
|
(LTS)
(last version to support PHP 5.2.3)
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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
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(last version to support MySQL 4)
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2011-11-28
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Full release notes, Language support
|
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| 1.17
|
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2011-06-22
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Full release notes, Language support
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| 1.16
|
|
2010-07-28
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Full release notes, Language support
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- 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
|
|
2009-06-10
|
Full release notes, Language support
|
- Supports filename moving
- Added keywords {{GENDER:||}}, {{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}} and {{REVISIONUSER}}
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| 1.14
|
|
2009-02-22
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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
|
|
2008-08-14
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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
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| 1.12
|
|
2008-03-20
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Full release notes, Language support
|
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| 1.11
|
|
2007-09-10
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Full release notes, Language support
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- $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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| 1.10
|
|
2007-05-09
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Full release notes, Language support
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- "Cascading protection" feature
- Improved tooltips and accesskey feature
- Various improvements to blocking and special page caching
- IPv6 support
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| 1.9
|
|
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.
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| 1.8
|
|
2006-10-10
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Full release notes, Language support
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- 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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| 1.7
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|
2006-07-07
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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)
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2006-04-05
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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)
|
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.
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| 1.4
|
|
2005-03-20
|
Full release notes, Language support
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- 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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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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