MediaWiki 1.28

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 download>Special:MyLanguage/Download from Git|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.