News

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This page contains news about the MediaWiki software. Currently this is mostly release news, but any news that is relevant to the wider MediaWiki community may be added here.

Recent news

2008-08-14: 1.13.0 quarterly release

MediaWiki 1.13.0 final release available, see Manual:Upgrading.
2008-08-11: 1.13.0rc2 release candidate

MediaWiki 1.13.0rc2 release candidate available
2008-07-25: 1.13.0rc1 release candidate

MediaWiki 1.13.0rc1 release candidate available.

Older news

2008-03-20: 1.12.0 quarterly release

MediaWiki 1.12.0 final release available, see Manual:Upgrading.
2008-03-11: 1.12.0rc1 release candidate

MediaWiki 1.12.0rc1 release candidate available.
2008-03-02: 1.11.2 security update, 1.10.4, 1.9.6 bugfix updates

Security updates available.

Bug fixes for regressions in previous security fix
2008-01-23: 1.11.1, 1.10.3, 1.9.5 security updates

Security updates available.
2007-09-10: 1.11.0 new stable branch

Quarterly branch available, see Manual:Upgrading to 1.11.
2007-09-10: 1.10.2, 1.9.4, 1.8.5 security updates

Security updates available.
2007-09-05: 1.11.0 branch release candidate

MediaWiki 1.11.0rc1 release candidate available.
2007-07-23: MediaWiki 1.11.0 release will be held back until mid-August, after the Wikimania 2007 conference, to allow for better testing of new features.
2007-07-13: 1.10.1 bugfix release

MediaWiki 1.10.1 update
2007-05-09: 1.10.0 new stable branch

MediaWiki 1.10.0 final release available, see Manual:Upgrading to 1.10.
2007-05-04: 1.10.0 branch release candidate

MediaWiki 1.10.0rc2 release candidate available.
2007-04-30: 1.10.0 branch release candidate

MediaWiki 1.10.0rc1 release candidate available.
2007-04-12: MediaWiki 1.10.0 release will be held back until the latter half of April to allow for better testing, performance tuning
2007-02-20: 1.9.3, 1.8.4, 1.7.3, 1.6.10 security fix releases

Patched Internet Explorer-specific XSS vulnerability in non-default configuration (with experimental AJAX features enabled).
2007-02-04: 1.9.2 fix release

Patched XSS vulnerability in sortable tables; all 1.9 users should upgrade.

Fixes to Creative Commons license configuration, optional storage compression.
2007-01-24: 1.9.1 bug fix release

Fixes to installation/upgrade, IIS, Opera/Mac and Firefox/X11 tooltip labels, security fix for optional DjVu support, and other fixes.
2007-01-10: 1.9.0 new stable branch

Quarterly release updates, see also Upgrading to 1.9.
2007-01-09: 1.9.0rc2 testing release; 1.8.3, 1.7.2, 1.6.9 security fix releases

Patched XSS vulnerability in non-default configuration (with experimental AJAX features enabled).
2006-10-13: 1.8.2 bug fix release

Fix for non-ASCII namespaces on Windows servers.
2006-10-11: 1.8.1 bug fix release

Installer PHP 5 check, register_globals paranoia, disabled potentially information-leaky backtraces.
2006-10-10: 1.8.0 new stable branch

Quarterly release updates, see also Upgrading to 1.8.
2006-07-08: 1.7.1, 1.6.8 bug fix releases

Fixed some installer issues in 1.7.

Potential XSS with vulnerable PHP versions patched.
2006-07-07: 1.7.0 new stable branch

Quarterly release updates, see also Upgrading to 1.7.
2006-06-06: Fix for XSS in 1.6 branch

All 1.6 installations should upgrade to 1.6.7. 1.5.x and earlier may be affected by some problems with extensions.
2006-05-23: Fix for XSS in 1.6 branch

All 1.6 installations should upgrade to 1.6.6. 1.5.x and earlier not affected.
2006-05-02: 1.6.5 more fixes

Various fixes for other corner cases. 1.6.4 was slightly buggy.
2006-04-10: 1.6.3 installer fixes

Installation on MySQL 4.0 older than 4.0.18 should work again.
2006-04-08: 1.6.2 extension fixes

Extension tags with "/" in parameters work again. Some more installer fixlets.
2006-04-05: 1.6.1 installer fixes

A few bugs affecting some installs on 1.6.0 fixed.
2006-04-05: 1.6.0 new stable branch

Quarterly release brings fun new features, see also Upgrading to 1.6.
2006-03-26: 1.5.8 and 1.4.15 fix XSS injection bug

HTML injection in encoded page links.