MediaWiki 1.26

MediaWiki 1.26 is currently being developed.

Consult the  file for the full list of changes.

It is currently deployed on Wikimedia Foundation wikis through incremental "1.26/wmfNN" branches starting April 08, 2015 (1>Special:PrefixIndex//wmf |see details of each).

The 1.26.0 stable release is expected to come out sometime in November 2015.

Download the or checkout the   branch download>Special:MyLanguage/Download from Git|in Git to follow this release.

Information of actual watchers of a page
It's now possible to use the info action (accessible from the sidebar) to get a count of "actual watchers" of a page, in addition to the already-available count of all the users having it in their watchlist ([ example]).

This information will make collaboration easier on your wiki, for instance by giving feedback to editors on how much their recent edits to a page were noticed by active users, or by setting reasonable expectations on how much a message on a certain talk page may be seen.

Details on how to configure the feature are available in the full release notes.

Upgrade notices for MediaWiki administrators

 * Users installing the Vector skin through composer will need to add  to their LocalSettings.php, it will no longer happen automatically.

Release schedule
The anticipated dates for point releases for 1.26 are as follows: