MediaWiki 1.23

MediaWiki 1.23 is currently being developed. Consult the file for the full list of changes. It is currently deployed on Wikimedia Foundation wikis through incremental "wmf"-branches starting October 2013. The 1.23.0 stable release is expected to come out somewhere in 2014. Download the or checkout the   branch in Git to follow this release. This will be a Long Term Support release (LTS) which will be supported until May 2017.

Notifications
With 1.23, MediaWiki starts to behave more like a modern website as regards notifications, to keep the editors of your wiki engaged and always up to date about what interests them. This used to require several custom settings.
 * Make preferences "Add pages I create and files I upload to my watchlist" and "pages and files I edit" true by default

Merged extensions
Merged into 1.23:
 * ExpandTemplates /