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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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Latest development version
If you want to run on the latest development version, you either have to use subversion or download nightly dump.

Latest beta version
The latest beta version is v1.16.0beta3. See the release notes.

PHP 4
MediaWiki requires PHP 5. If you are using PHP 4, upgrade now! It's no longer supported by the PHP group, and has lots of bugs.

Many shared hosting providers offer both PHP 4 and PHP 5, running simultaneously. Ask your provider if they can do this.

If for some reason, you really really need to run MediaWiki on PHP 4, you can use the MediaWiki 1.6.x branch from 2006. Note that this version is no longer supported and does not receive security updates.


 * Download PHP 4 compatible MediaWiki

Archive
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