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Supported releases

Download MediaWiki 1.45.1 (.zip)

Download .tar.gz instead

Supported versions

• MediaWiki 1.45.1 (stable)
  • download .zip - download .tar.gz
• MediaWiki 1.44.3 (legacy)
  • download .zip - download .tar.gz
• MediaWiki 1.43.6 (long-term support (LTS))
  • download .zip - download .tar.gz

To users of MediaWiki versions 1.42 and earlier: These versions are no longer supported. Please update to a newer version of MediaWiki.

License

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.

More information

• Release notes
• Manual:Installation guide
• Manual:Upgrading
• Version lifecycle

System requirements

MediaWiki requires PHP 8.2.0+, 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 1.45.1 in a terminal on a Linux machine using wget, do:

wget https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.45/mediawiki-1.45.1.tar.gz

Alternatively, using cURL:

curl -O https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.45/mediawiki-1.45.1.tar.gz

Signature dounlaids

• GPG security signature tae verify yer dounlaid wi the GNU Preevacie Guard:
  • MediaWiki 1.45.1 – stable
  • MediaWiki 1.44.3 – legacie
  • MediaWiki 1.43.6 – lang term support (LTS)

• GPG keys
• MediaWiki 1.45.1 chynges that dinna incluid i18n (unified diff)

Alternateeves tae the manual instawation

Some uisers micht prefer tae skip manual instawation bi uisin ae pre-integratit MediaWiki saffware appliance or hoastin servaces; mairower, repositries o some distros increasinglie affer packages fer MediaWiki, wi differnt degrees o frequancie n extensions coverage (e.g. Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo). 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.

Security and update announcements

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Legacie releases

Gif yer MediaWiki instawation is modified heivilie, it micht be diffeecult tae incorporate the latest offeecial chynges/updates tae MediaWiki. Tae support sic uisers, we maintain auld brainches o oor code fer up tae ae year fer the legacie release n up tae three years fer the legacie lang term support release.

Deveelopment releases

To contribute to the development of MediaWiki core or extensions, Doonlaid fae Git to get the latest version. For more information about setting up a development environment, see How to become a MediaWiki hacker .

Keep in mind that you are downloading the latest alpha version of MediaWiki, which is not recommended for production use! Although this can be used in production, it is more likely to contain bugs.

Auld releases

Ye can fynd tarbaws (wi extention *.tar.gz) o aw versions o MediaWiki back tae Mairch o 2005 (the earliest is MediaWiki 1.3.11) in the MediaWiki dounlaid airchives.

Tae brouse, incluidin een the aulder versions, see the tags o the Git repositrie.