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Download from Git instead
Active MediaWiki developers should instead git>Special:MyLanguage/Download from Git|download from Git to get the latest version of the MediaWiki software. The git repository has earlier versions of the software, so it is possible to switch to ("check out") a particular release.

Note
MySQL 5 support is required since  – if you are using an older version of MySQL and cannot upgrade, you can use MediaWiki 1.18.6 (link>download:mediawiki/1.18/mediawiki-1.18.6.tar.gz|download). Note that this version is no longer supported.

Alternatives to manual installation
Some users may prefer to skip manual installation by using a pre-integrated MediaWiki software appliance or hosting services; repositories of some distros also increasingly offer packages for MediaWiki, with different degrees of frequency and extensions coverage (e.g. Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo).

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Legacy releases
If your MediaWiki installation is heavily modified, it may be difficult to incorporate the latest official changes/updates to MediaWiki. To support such users, we maintain old branches of our code for up to a year for the legacy release and up to three years for the legacy long term support release.

Download legacy release MediaWiki ]] Download legacy LTS release MediaWiki ]]
 * [[download:mediawiki//mediawiki-.tar.gz|
 * [[download:mediawiki//mediawiki-.tar.gz|

Development releases
If you want to run on the latest development (i.e. alpha) version, you either download Nightlies, or git>Special:MyLanguage/Download from Git|download from Git.

From Git you can either download the complete repository (about 528 MB)   or the latest revision only (about 85 MB; this is often called a shallow clone: less time and smaller downloads).

You can also view the in your browser.

Old releases
You can find tar balls (*.tar.gz) of all versions of MediaWiki back to March 2005 (the earliest being MediaWiki 1.3.11) in the download>download:mediawiki/|MediaWiki download archives.

To browse, including even older versions, see the [https://git.wikimedia.org/tags/mediawiki%2Fcore.git tags] of the git>Special:MyLanguage/Gerrit|Git repository.

Installation assistance

 * FAQ: Installation and configuration
 * mediawiki-l (Mailing List) is the high-traffic mailing list to ask for support.