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.

More anti-vandalism improvements
After MediaWiki 1.21 new core features and bundled anti-spam extensions, 1.22 will continue the job:
 * The patrolling system has been changed so that the link to mark a page or revision as patrolled is always shown when the revision or page is patrollable. This also removed the usage of the rcid URI parameters.
 * SimpleAntiSpam will be bundled (it's a little but harmless help against the simplest forms of spambots).
 * Global blocking API added.

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 More information at Turning off outdated skins.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 "1.22wmfX" software deployments to Wikimedia sites.