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Web-Upgrade of Mw 1.31.1 did not work

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Wikinaut (talkcontribs)

Running MW 1.31.1 I wanted to use the web upgrade to upgrade to the latest version and I followed the instructions of Manual:Upgrading#Web browser


I went through all steps and at the end nothing was changed or upgraded. I expected to get 1.31.5 or the latest 1.33.1.


What's wrong? Please can you assisst?

AhmadF.Cheema (talkcontribs)
Wikinaut (talkcontribs)

Uh, no, I did not manually download a newer tarball, because I expected that this is done by the webinstaller (like, for example, Nextcloud upgrade works). So, using the MW Webinstaller has no advantage over using the commandline and then php update.php.

Going from 1.31.3 to 1.31.5 will be fine, I guess (this is my experience since many decades), but can I directly upgrade from 1.31.3 to 1.33.1 ? Formerly this was not recommended.

MarkAHershberger (talkcontribs)

The upgrade from 1.31.3 to 1.33.1 should work.

Wikinaut (talkcontribs)

Hi Mark, where we are talking about this... I would like to ask: Is there any initiative towards a better (semi-automatic) upgrade process for MediaWiki where we can get rid of the "backup the important subdirectories, unpack then restore..." process?

MarkAHershberger (talkcontribs)

We are all aware of the problem, but no one has yet volunteered to take this over.

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