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Latest release
- MediaWiki 1.43.1 (download .zip, download .tar.gz) - stable, current long-term support (LTS)
- MediaWiki 1.42.6 (download .zip, download .tar.gz) - legacy
- MediaWiki 1.39.12 (download .zip, download .tar.gz) - legacy long-term support (LTS)
To users of MediaWiki versions 1.40, 1.41 and 1.38 and earlier: These versions are no longer supported. Please update to a newer version of MediaWiki.
MediaWiki is free software licensed under version 2 (or later version) of the GNU General Public License. Because MediaWiki is licensed free of charge, there is no warranty, to the extent permitted by applicable law. Read the full text of the GNU GPL version 2 for details.
System Requirements
MediaWiki requires PHP 8.1.0+, a webserver software, and either MariaDB 10.3.0+, MySQL 5.7.0+, SQLite 3.24.0+ or PostgreSQL 10.0+. Using MariaDB or MySQL is recommended as Wikipedia uses MariaDB. Any other database servers are less tested and you may likely run into some bugs.
For more information, please read the pages on system requirements and compatibility.
Download via command line
To download MediaWiki 1.43.1 in a terminal on a Linux machine using wget, do:
wget https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.43/mediawiki-1.43.1.tar.gz
Alternatively, using cURL:
curl -O https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.43/mediawiki-1.43.1.tar.gz
Signature downloads
- GPG security signatures to verify your download with GNU Privacy Guard:
- MediaWiki 1.43.1 - stable, current long-term support (LTS)
- MediaWiki 1.42.6 - legacy
- MediaWiki 1.39.12 - legacy long-term support (LTS)
- GPG keys
- MediaWiki 1.43.1 changes including i18n (unified diff)
Alternatives to manual installation
Some users may prefer to skip manual installation by using a pre-integrated MediaWiki software appliance or hosting services. Repositories of some Linux distributions also increasingly offer packages for MediaWiki, with different degrees of frequency and extensions coverage e.g. Debian (including derivatives like Ubuntu), Fedora, Gentoo.
What next?
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Legacy releases
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 for the legacy release and up to three years for the legacy long term support release.
Development releases
To contribute to the development of MediaWiki core or extensions, Download from Git to get the latest version. For more information about setting up a development environment, see How to become a MediaWiki hacker.
Old releases
You can find tarballs (with extension *.tar.gz) of old versions of MediaWiki in the MediaWiki download archives.