MediaWiki 1.27

MediaWiki 1.27 is a future release.

Consult the  file for the full list of changes.

It is currently deployed on Wikimedia Foundation wikis through incremental "1.27.0-wmf.NN" branches starting September 29, 2015 (1>Special:PrefixIndex//wmf|see details of each).

The 1.27.0 stable release is expected to come out around May 2016.

Download the or checkout the   branch download>Special:MyLanguage/Download from Git|in Git to follow this release.

InstantCommons made easier and cheaper
InstantCommons will now truly work out of the box, as long as your users can connect to upload.wikimedia.org: thumbnails will be served from that domain instead of requiring local generation (251556).