Version lifecycle/id

MediaWiki beroperasi dalam model pengembangan "integrasi berlanjut", di mana perubahan perangkat lunak didorong langsung ke situs web Wikimedia seperti Wikipedia secara rutin.

Dalam teorinya, rilis utama yang baru diterbitkan setiap setengah tahun, dan rilis cabang terus mendapatkan pembaruan keamanan selama setahun sejak rilis pertamanya. Karena batasan waktu dan refaktorisasi basis kode yang cepat, kami tidak bisa mendukung rilis yang lama selamanya, dan pembaruan keamanan dan pembaruan kritis tidak diterapkan pada rilis yang telah mencapai status ujung hidupnya.

Pengelola rilis sangat merekomendasikan kepada operator wiki untuk berlangganan dengan milis, yang menerima pemberitahuan mengenai semua rilis, dan memastikan wiki mereka menjalankan versi perangkat lunak yang paling terkini. Pengumuman-pengumuman ini juga dipos di  dan.

Versi dan akhir hidupnya
Versipversi yang disebutkan dalam tabel di atas yang ditandai sebagai usang serta versi-versi yang sama sekali tidak disebutkan tidak akan mendapatkan perbaikan keamanan. Mereka mungkin mengandung kelemahan keamanan yang kritis dan kekutu-kekutu besar lainnya, termasuk ancaman kehilangan dan/atau rusaknya data. Pengelola rilis mengeluarkan rekomendasi tegas bahwa hanya versi di atas yang ditandai sebagai "versi saat ini" atau "LTS" saja yang digunakan di lingkungan produksi.

Release policy

 * Every point release will include updated i18n files as well as any bug fixes. No new features will be back-ported to point releases and support does not neccessarily include in general.
 * A major release will be made every six months.
 * A long term support release (LTS) will be made every two years. There will be a one-year overlap in LTS support. For example, 1.23 was supported until May 2017. 1.27 was released the year before, so that, people have it available as an LTS to move to and a year to make the transition.
 * Release notes will continue to be the basis for seeing what has changed. Because of the nature of a volunteer-driven project, it isn't possible to say with any certainty what will happen in the next 6-12 months.

Release schedule
This timeline is a schedule for what needs to happen before the release of a new version. The date of the actual release is given here as T (for "time" of release) and the suffix -# (for “number of weeks prior to release”).

Extension lifecycle management
Most MediaWiki installations include a significant number of extensions (Wikimedia wikis often have around 140). Managing the maintenance bug fixing of extensions and choosing the right version of an extension in cases where the HEAD development version relies on features not yet available in stable or oldstable MediaWiki core, can be challenging.

Extension maintainers are therefore strongly encouraged to maintain a git branches for each extension version corresponding a MediaWiki version. (See for details.) For extensions hosted in Wikimedia's git repos, such branches (with names such as  for MediaWiki 1.30) are created automatically from master when a new MediaWiki version is branched (on the assumption that the extension master is compatible with MediaWiki master at all times). However, it's preferable for the extension maintainer to fix bugs not only in HEAD but also in the oldstable and stable versions (by backporting the fix to the old branches if necessary).

The goal of these rules is that people or organizations installing MediaWiki can rely on installing the newest release of a version and matching extensions by a simple method, e.g. for 1.20.x core by referring to REL1_20 in git.