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 * Release notes

Our downloads are in .tar.gz format. If you are on Windows, you can use 7-zip to decompress them.

MediaWiki requires PHP 5.1+ and either MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQLite. For more information please read the system requirements.

For information on upgrading an existing MediaWiki installation to a newer version, see Manual:Upgrading.



Other downloads:
 * MediaWiki GPG security signature to verify your download with GNU Privacy Guard
 * GPG keys
 * MediaWiki changes not including i18n (unified diff)
 * MediaWiki i18n changes (unified diff)

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Newer releases

 * If you want to run on the latest development (i.e. alpha) version, you either have to use subversion or download nightly dump.
 * The latest beta version is v1.16.0beta3. See the release notes.

Old branches
If your MediaWiki installation is heavily modified, it may be difficult to incorporate the latest official changes/updates to MediaWiki. To support such users, we maintain old branches of our code for up to a year.


 * Download old MediaWiki

Older releases
You can find tar balls (*.tar.gz) of all versions of MediaWiki back to February 2007 in the MediaWiki download archives

To browse, including even older versions, see the tags directory, of the Subversion repository.

Installation assistance

 * FAQ: FAQ
 * mediawiki-l (Mailing List) is the high-traffic mailing list to ask for support.
 * MediaWiki Users (Forum) is a user-to-user MediaWiki support forum