Talk:IPv6 support roadmap

Actual IPv6 status
...I've been using IPv6 for years and it works out-of-the-box with MW 1.6.x, 1.7.x, 1.8.x - it's totally broken in 1.9.x. So IPv6 was supported (and is in previous) until version v1.9.x.

As pointed out on the main page, MW versions up to 1.9.x do work with IPv6. As for the "coming very slowly", part in the introduction, realize that there already is at least 5 MW sites that I know of who are using IPv6. These sites can't upgrade beyond MW 1.8.x - because IPv6 support broke when 1.9.x was released.

Also, the IPv6 "coming very slowly" is a bit like someone suddenly becoming aware that "oh there is this new thing called the wheel being used, we should probably support that", sites who do support IPv6 do have the history pages full of IPv6 IPs. So it seems that a whole lot of users already have IPv6, while there isn't that many sites on the Official 6bone Webserver List list yet (But there are like 5 MediaWiki's on that list as of now). --Xiando 20:19, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I was refering to the rate IPv6 was overhauling IPv4 worldwide, not "software support". Also, while history pages/contribs may have IPv6, the current issues around ranges and consistency have not been addressed since now. 1.10 should have full IPv6 support for blocks/checkuser. Voice of All 22:01, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

I am using also ipv6. I run in the same problem with version 1.9.3.

Please do not longer ignore ipv6. It is slowly, because of the most popular sites like wikipedia are running only on ipv4.

Thomas Schäfer
 * The indexes can be dropped and redone, all the rest is now in 1.10 already, full support. Voice of All 20:01, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Mediawiki 1.16.0 and IPv6
Dear colleagues, so may I set up MediaWiki 1.16.0 to IPv6 or not? I am planning to upgrade from version 1.13.3 and would like to do that together.
 * 1.16 has more v6 bugs than I'd have hoped. There has actually been a lot of work on fixing v6 bugs in 1.17 lately. Aaron 22:59, 20 November 2010 (UTC)