MediaWiki 1.28/sd

MediaWiki 1.28 is the latest release of MediaWiki. Consult the file for the full list of changes. It was deployed on Wikimedia Foundation wikis through incremental "wmf"-branches starting May 10, 2016. The 1.28.0 stable release was released on November 23rd 2016. Download the or checkout the   branch in Git to follow this release.

Improved HTML file caching
The HTML file caching feature (controlled by ) now supports caching ?action=history views (310697). In addition, the emergency fallback of showing cached pages if the database is down was fixed and now works properly.

Breaking changes

 * Magic links are now disabled by default. They can be enabled by changing the value of . It has been proposed to remove magic link functionality from MediaWiki in a future release, if you depend upon or use them it is requested that you comment at Requests for comment/Future of magic links.