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.
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.
| Version number | Version note | Date | Links | Notable changes | |
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Legend: Old version, not maintained Old version, still maintained Latest version Future release | |||||
| 1.44 | |||||
| 1.43 | (LTS) PHP 8.1+ now required | December 21, 2024 | Full release notes, Language support | ||
| 1.42 | June 27, 2024 | Full release notes, Language support | |||
| 1.41 | December 21, 2023 | Full release notes, Language support | |||
| 1.40 | June 30, 2023 | Full release notes, Language support | |||
| 1.39 | (LTS) PHP 7.4+ now required | November 30, 2022 | Full release notes, Language support |
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| 1.38 | June 2, 2022 | Full release notes, Language support | |||
| 1.37 | November 18, 2021 | Full release notes, Language support | |||
| 1.36 | May 28, 2021 | Full release notes, Language support |
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| 1.35 | (LTS) | September 25, 2020 | Full release notes, Language support |
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| 1.34 | PHP 7.2 or 7.3 now required | December 19, 2019 | Full release notes, Language support |
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| 1.33 | (last version to support PHP 7.0 and 7.1) | July 2, 2019 | Full release notes, Language support | ||
| 1.32 | January 11, 2019 | Full release notes, Language support | |||
| 1.31 | (LTS) PHP 7.0+ now required | June 13, 2018 | Full release notes, Language support |
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| 1.30 | (last version to support PHP 5.6) | December 12, 2017 | Full release notes, Language support | ||
| 1.29 | July 13, 2017 | Full release notes, Language support | |||
| 1.28 | November 28, 2016 | Full release notes, Language support |
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| 1.27 | (LTS) | June 28, 2016 | Full release notes, Language support |
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| 1.26 | (last version to support PHP 5.3.3) | November 25, 2015 | Full release notes, Language support | ||
| 1.25 | May 25, 2015 | Full release notes, Language support | |||
| 1.24 | November 27, 2014 | Full release notes, Language support |
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| 1.23 | (LTS) | June 5, 2014 | Full release notes, Language support |
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| 1.22 | December 7, 2013 | Full release notes, Language support |
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| 1.21 | May 25, 2013 | Full release notes, Language support |
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| 1.20 | November 7, 2012 | Full release notes, Language support |
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| 1.19 | (LTS) (last version to support PHP 5.2.3) | May 2, 2012 | Full release notes, Language support |
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| 1.18 | (last version to support MySQL 4) | November 28, 2011 | Full release notes, Language support |
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| 1.17 | June 22, 2011 | Full release notes, Language support |
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| 1.16 | July 28, 2010 | Full release notes, Language support |
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| 1.15 | June 10, 2009 | Full release notes, Language support |
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| 1.14 | February 22, 2009 | Full release notes, Language support |
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| 1.13 | August 14, 2008 | Full release notes, Language support |
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| 1.12 | March 20, 2008 | Full release notes, Language support |
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| 1.11 | September 10, 2007 | Full release notes, Language support |
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| 1.10 | May 9, 2007 | Full release notes, Language support |
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| 1.9 | January 10, 2007 | Full release notes, Language support |
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| 1.8 | October 10, 2006 | Full release notes, Language support |
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| 1.7 | July 7, 2006 | Full release notes, Language support |
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| 1.6 | (last version to support PHP 4) | April 5, 2006 | Full release notes, Language support |
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| 1.5 | (last version to support MySQL 3) | October 5, 2005 | Full release notes, Language support |
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| 1.4 | March 20, 2005 | Full release notes, Language support |
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| 1.3 | August 11, 2004 | Full release notes |
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| 1.2 | March 24, 2004 | Full release notes |
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| 1.1 | December 8, 2003 | Full release notes |
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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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