MediaWiki 1.22

MediaWiki 1.22 is currently being developed. Consult the RELEASE-NOTES file for the full list of changes. It is currently deployed on Wikimedia Foundation wikis through incremental "wmf"-branches starting April 2013. The 1.22.0 stable release is expected to come out late in 2013. Download the or checkout the   branch in Git to follow this release.

Several ancient skins removed


On 2013-04-01, several ancient skins were removed from core (not an April's fool joke): Chick, Classic, MySkin, Nostalgia and Simple. More information at Turning off outdated skins.

Nostalgia was the phase I/UseModWiki-like skin, and Classic was the main skin before the introduction of the default MonoBook in MediaWiki 1.3 (2004-05-22). Dating back to February 2002, both skins existed over a year before MediaWiki got its name.

What's new?
MediaWiki 1.22 will include all changes released in the smaller, bi-weekly "1.22wmfX" software deployments to Wikimedia sites.