MediaWiki version history

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.

## Table

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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; 8 days ago (2024-12-21) | Full release notes, Language support |
Old version, yet still maintained: 1.42  |  | June 27, 2024; 6 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Old version, no longer maintained: 1.40  |  | June 30, 2023; 17 months ago (2023-06-30) | Full release notes, Language support |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Old version, no longer maintained: 1.38  |  | June 2, 2022; 2 years ago (2022-06-02) | Full release notes, Language support |
Old version, no longer maintained: 1.37  |  | November 18, 2021; 3 years ago (2021-11-18) | Full release notes, Language support |
Old version, no longer maintained: 1.36  |  | May 28, 2021; 3 years ago (2021-05-28) | Full release notes, Language support |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Old version, no longer maintained: 1.35  | (LTS)  | September 25, 2020; 4 years ago (2020-09-25) | Full release notes, Language support |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Old version, no longer maintained: 1.34  | PHP 7.2 or 7.3 now required  | December 19, 2019; 5 years ago (2019-12-19) | Full release notes, Language support |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Old version, no longer maintained: 1.33  | (last version to support PHP 7.0 and 7.1)  | July 2, 2019; 5 years ago (2019-07-02) | Full release notes, Language support |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 |

* Magic links are now disabled by default.

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 |

* Hit counters removed.

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 |

* Better directionality (LTR, RTL) support
* User links are adapted to reflect the user's gender
* Protocol-relative URL support

Old version, no longer maintained: 1.17  |  | June 22, 2011; 13 years ago (2011-06-22) | Full release notes, Language support |

* New installer
* ResourceLoader
* Category sorting improved

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 |

* Internationalization and localization has made a huge step forward; a lot more translations, new translations are now also committed to 1.12, Special:Version is localizable, support for Hebrew, Thai and Iranian calendar.
* Parser preprocessor rewritten
* Userrights interface improved and generalized

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.

## External links

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* MediaWiki release notes on mediawiki.org
* MediaWiki version lifecycle on mediawiki.org