News

This page contains news about the MediaWiki software. Currently this is mostly release news, but any news that is relevant to the wider MediaWiki community may be added here.

Recent news

• 2012-01-11: 1.18.1 released

  MediaWiki 1.18.1 security & maintenance release is now available.

• 2012-01-11: 1.17.2 released

  MediaWiki 1.17.2 security release is now available.

• 2011-11-28: 1.18.0 released

  MediaWiki 1.18.0 has been released.

• 2011-11-28: 1.17.1 released

  MediaWiki 1.17.1 security release is now available.

• 2011-11-18: 1.18.0rc1 released

  MediaWiki 1.18.0rc1 is now available.

• 2011-11-04: 1.18 beta1 released

  MediaWiki 1.18 beta 1 is now available.

• 2011-06-22: 1.17.0 released

  MediaWiki 1.17.0 has been released.

Older news

• 2011-06-14: 1.17.0rc1 released

  MediaWiki 1.17.0rc1 is now available.

• 2011-05-05: 1.17 beta 1 released

  MediaWiki 1.17 beta 1 is now available.

• 2011-05-05: 1.16.5 released

  MediaWiki 1.16.5 security release available.

• 2011-04-14: 1.16.4 released

  MediaWiki 1.16.4 security release available.

• 2011-04-12: 1.16.3 released

  MediaWiki 1.16.3 security release available.

• 2011-02-01: 1.16.2 released

  MediaWiki 1.16.2 security release available.

• 2011-01-04: 1.16.1 released

  MediaWiki 1.16.1 security release available.

• 2010-07-28: 1.16.0 and 1.15.5 released

  MediaWiki 1.16.0 and 1.15.5 security release available

• 2010-05-28: 1.15.4, 1.16.0beta3 released

  MediaWiki 1.15.4 and 1.16.0beta3 security release available

• 2010-04-07: 1.15.3, 1.16.0beta2 released

  MediaWiki 1.15.3 and 1.16.0beta2 security release available

• 2010-03-12: 1.16.0beta1 released

  MediaWiki 1.16.0beta1 release available

• 2010-03-08: 1.15.2 released

  MediaWiki 1.15.2 bugfix release available

• 2009-07-13: 1.15.1, 1.14.1 released

  MediaWiki 1.15.1 bugfix release available

  MediaWiki 1.14.1 bugfix release available

• 2009-06-10: 1.15.0 released

  MediaWiki 1.15.0 quarterly release available

• 2009-05-16: 1.15.0rc1 released

  MediaWiki 1.15.0rc1 release candidate available

• 2009-02-22: 1.14.0, 1.13.5 released

  MediaWiki 1.14.0 quarterly release available

  MediaWiki 1.13.5 bugfix release available

• 2009-02-07: 1.13.4, 1.12.4, 1.6.12, and 1.14.0rc1 released

  Security updates available

  MediaWiki 1.14.0rc1 release candidate available

• 2008-12-15: 1.13.3, 1.12.2, 1.6.11 released

  Security updates available

• 2008-10-02: 1.13.2, 1.12.1 released

  Security updates MediaWiki 1.13.2 and 1.12.1 available

• 2008-09-06: 1.13.1 released

  MediaWiki 1.13.1 bugfix release available

• 2008-08-14: 1.13.0 quarterly release

  MediaWiki 1.13.0 final release available, see Manual:Upgrading.

• 2008-08-11: 1.13.0rc2 release candidate

  MediaWiki 1.13.0rc2 release candidate available

• 2008-07-25: 1.13.0rc1 release candidate

  MediaWiki 1.13.0rc1 release candidate available.

• 2008-03-20: 1.12.0 quarterly release

  MediaWiki 1.12.0 final release available, see Manual:Upgrading.

• 2008-03-11: 1.12.0rc1 release candidate

  MediaWiki 1.12.0rc1 release candidate available.

• 2008-03-02: 1.11.2 security update, 1.10.4, 1.9.6 bugfix updates

  Security updates available.

  Bug fixes for regressions in previous security fix

• 2008-01-23: 1.11.1, 1.10.3, 1.9.5 security updates

  Security updates available.

• 2007-09-10: 1.11.0 new stable branch

  Quarterly branch available, see Manual:Upgrading to 1.11.

• 2007-09-10: 1.10.2, 1.9.4, 1.8.5 security updates

  Security updates available.

• 2007-09-05: 1.11.0 branch release candidate

  MediaWiki 1.11.0rc1 release candidate available.

• 2007-07-23: MediaWiki 1.11.0 release will be held back until mid-August, after the Wikimania 2007 conference, to allow for better testing of new features.
• 2007-07-13: 1.10.1 bugfix release

  MediaWiki 1.10.1 update

• 2007-05-09: 1.10.0 new stable branch

  MediaWiki 1.10.0 final release available, see Manual:Upgrading to 1.10.

• 2007-05-04: 1.10.0 branch release candidate

  MediaWiki 1.10.0rc2 release candidate available.

• 2007-04-30: 1.10.0 branch release candidate

  MediaWiki 1.10.0rc1 release candidate available.

• 2007-04-12: MediaWiki 1.10.0 release will be held back until the latter half of April to allow for better testing, performance tuning
• 2007-02-20: 1.9.3, 1.8.4, 1.7.3, 1.6.10 security fix releases

  Patched Internet Explorer-specific XSS vulnerability in non-default configuration (with experimental AJAX features enabled).

• 2007-02-04: 1.9.2 fix release

  Patched XSS vulnerability in sortable tables; all 1.9 users should upgrade.

  Fixes to Creative Commons license configuration, optional storage compression.

• 2007-01-24: 1.9.1 bug fix release

  Fixes to installation/upgrade, IIS, Opera/Mac and Firefox/X11 tooltip labels, security fix for optional DjVu support, and other fixes.

• 2007-01-10: 1.9.0 new stable branch

  Quarterly release updates, see also Upgrading to 1.9.

• 2007-01-09: 1.9.0rc2 testing release; 1.8.3, 1.7.2, 1.6.9 security fix releases

  Patched XSS vulnerability in non-default configuration (with experimental AJAX features enabled).

• 2006-10-13: 1.8.2 bug fix release

  Fix for non-ASCII namespaces on Windows servers.

• 2006-10-11: 1.8.1 bug fix release

  Installer PHP 5 check, register_globals paranoia, disabled potentially information-leaky backtraces.

• 2006-10-10: 1.8.0 new stable branch

  Quarterly release updates, see also Upgrading to 1.8.

• 2006-07-08: 1.7.1, 1.6.8 bug fix releases

  Fixed some installer issues in 1.7.

  Potential XSS with vulnerable PHP versions patched.

• 2006-07-07: 1.7.0 new stable branch

  Quarterly release updates, see also Upgrading to 1.7.

• 2006-06-06: Fix for XSS in 1.6 branch

  All 1.6 installations should upgrade to 1.6.7. 1.5.x and earlier may be affected by some problems with extensions.

• 2006-05-23: Fix for XSS in 1.6 branch

  All 1.6 installations should upgrade to 1.6.6. 1.5.x and earlier not affected.

• 2006-05-02: 1.6.5 more fixes

  Various fixes for other corner cases. 1.6.4 was slightly buggy.

• 2006-04-10: 1.6.3 installer fixes

  Installation on MySQL 4.0 older than 4.0.18 should work again.

• 2006-04-08: 1.6.2 extension fixes

  Extension tags with "/" in parameters work again. Some more installer fixlets.

• 2006-04-05: 1.6.1 installer fixes

  A few bugs affecting some installs on 1.6.0 fixed.

• 2006-04-05: 1.6.0 new stable branch

  Quarterly release brings fun new features, see also Upgrading to 1.6.

• 2006-03-26: 1.5.8 and 1.4.15 fix XSS injection bug

  HTML injection in encoded page links.