MediaWiki version history

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MediaWiki is an open-source wiki engine whose first version, 1.1, was released in 2003. The following table contains the MediaWiki version history, showing all of its release versions.

Colour	Meaning
Red	Release no longer supported
Green	Release still supported
Blue	Future release

Version number	Date	Links	Notable changes
1.1	December 8, 2003	Full release notes	New wiki table syntax. User-editable interface messages through "MediaWiki namespace". XML-wrapped page source export with optional history. "Magic words" – special variables and parser instructions.
1.2	March 24, 2004	Full release notes	Experimental web-based installer. Image resizing and thumbnail generation. Editing toolbar for learning wiki syntax. User rights management within the wiki.
1.3	August 11, 2004	Full release notes	New, highly CSS-based default look and feel ("MonoBook" skin) and better web standards compliance. Parametrized templates. Category feature. Automatic merging of edit conflicts when possible. Improved installation.
1.4	March 20, 2005	Full release notes, Language support	User interface language can be changed by the user. Significant performance improvements. Support for compressing old revisions of articles to reduce storage needs. Image gallery generation, list of recently uploaded images. SVG rasterization support (requires external support tools).
1.5 (last version to support MySQL 3)	October 5, 2005	Full release notes, Language support	Major database redesign decoupling text storage from revision tracking, resulting in: Significant performance boosts for some operations. Permalink functionality for all revisions. Support for storing bulk data outside the main database. Support for e-mail notification upon changes. Page content must be encoded in UTF-8.
1.6 (last version to support PHP 4)	April 5, 2006	Full release notes, Language support	Page protection/unprotection uses a new, expanded form. "Job queue" for background updates. Improved tracking of template usage. Template parameters can have default values.
1.7	July 7, 2006	Full release notes, Language support	MediaWiki 1.7 requires PHP 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported. Deleted files can now be restored.
1.8	October 10, 2006	Full release notes, Language support	Full support for PostgreSQL (8.1 or better) database backend Support for DjVu thumbnailing and multipage navigation Various improvements to user blocking; blocks can be made to affect only unregistered users using a particular IP address Uploading files from publicly accessible URLs is possible if enabled
1.9	January 10, 2007	Full release notes, Language support	"Undo revision" feature Various improvements to blocking and special page caching Tables with sortable columns Addition of an edit counter field to the user database Revision size displayed on watchlists and recent changes The names of Special: pages can now be localized, so links and URLs to them are more legible in languages that aren't English.
1.10	May 9, 2007	Full release notes, Language support	"Cascading protection" feature Improved tooltips and accesskey feature Various improvements to blocking and special page caching IPv6 support
1.11	September 10, 2007	Full release notes, Language support	$wgAddGroups and $wgRemoveGroups are added to allow finer control over usergroup assignment AJAX-based page watching has been cleaned up and enabled by default
1.12	March 20, 2008	Full release notes, Language support	Internationalization and localization has made a huge step forward; a lot more translations, new translations are now also committed to 1.12, Special:Version is localizable, support for Hebrew, Thai and Iranian calendar. Parser preprocessor rewritten Userrights interface improved and generalized
1.13	August 14, 2008	Full release notes, Language support	New special pages: FileDuplicateSearch, ListGroupRights Special:UserRights and Special:SpecialPages have been redesigned Hidden category feature: __HIDDENCAT__ on a category page hides the category on the article page. Friendlier behaviour for users who click a red link but can't edit Double redirects created by a page move can be fixed automatically
1.14	February 22, 2009	Full release notes, Language support	Supports a plaintext copyright notice (other than Creative Commons or GFDL) Images can link to an arbitrary title or URL Search engine indexing can be controlled on a per-page basis Better CSS support for handheld devices Page history pages now have a date selector File upload history pages now display thumbnails for every file version
1.15	June 10, 2009	Full release notes, Language support	Supports filename moving Added keywords {{GENDER:||}}, {{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}} and {{REVISIONUSER}}
1.16	July 28, 2010, supported until November 2011	Full release notes, Language support	The new skin Vector was added RSS/Atom feeds are now included in the watchlist Blocking users from sending email via Special:Emailuser is now possible
1.17	June 22, 2011	Full release notes, Language support	New Installer Resource Loader Category sorting improved
1.18	1.18 started as of December 2010, being stabilized as of May–July 2011	Full release notes, Language support	Better directionality (LTR, RTL) support User links are adapted to reflect the user's gender Nicer URLs
1.19 (trunk)	1.19 started as of July 2011	Full release notes, Language support

External links

• MediaWiki release notes on mediawiki.org