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| (LTS) PHP 7.4+ now required | | Full release notes, Language support | - Required PHP version bumped to 7.4.3; PHP 8.0 and 8.1 supported officially
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| | | 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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| (LTS) | | 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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| PHP 7.2 or 7.3 now required | | Full release notes, Language support | - HHVM no longer supported
- Uses PHP 7.2.9 or newer
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| (last version to support PHP 7.0 and 7.1) | | Full release notes, Language support | |
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| (LTS) PHP 7.0+ now required | | Full release notes, Language support | - The new skin Timeless was added
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| (last version to support PHP 5.6) | | Full release notes, Language support | |
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| | | Full release notes, Language support | - Magic links are now disabled by default.
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| (LTS) | | Full release notes, Language support | - Requires PHP version 5.5.9 or higher
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| (last version to support PHP 5.3.3) | | Full release notes, Language support | |
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| | | 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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| (LTS) | | Full release notes, Language support | - Skin autodiscovery deprecated.
- Notifications
- CSS refresh for Vector
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| | | 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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| | | Full release notes, Language support | - Clearer email notifications.
- New ContentHandler.
- Support for high DPI displays.
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| | | 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.
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(last version to support PHP 5.2.3) | | 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
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| (last version to support MySQL 4) | | Full release notes, Language support | - Better directionality (LTR, RTL) support
- User links are adapted to reflect the user's gender
- Protocol-relative URL support
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| | | Full release notes, Language support | - New installer
- ResourceLoader
- Category sorting improved
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| | | 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 is now possible
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| | | Full release notes, Language support | - Supports filename moving
- Added keywords {{GENDER:||}}, {{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}} and {{REVISIONUSER}}
|- valign="top"! || | 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
|- valign="top"! || | 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
|- valign="top"! || | 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, is localizable, support for Hebrew, Thai and Iranian calendar.
- Parser preprocessor rewritten
- Userrights interface improved and generalized
|- valign="top"! || | 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
|- valign="top"! || | Full release notes, Language support|
- "Cascading protection" feature
- Improved tooltips and accesskey feature
- Various improvements to blocking and special page caching
- IPv6 support
|- valign="top"! || | 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.
|- valign="top"! || | 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
|- valign="top"! || | 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.
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(last version to support PHP 4)| | 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.
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(last version to support MySQL 3)| | 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.
|- valign="top"! || | 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).
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- 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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- 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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- 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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See also
Special:Version, special MediaWiki page that shows the current installed software, which is version on this wiki. It is available on all MediaWiki sites.
External links
- MediaWiki release notes on mediawiki.org
- MediaWiki version lifecycle on mediawiki.org
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