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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="clear: both;"
! Version number
! Version note
! Date
! Links
! Notable changes
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
! style="background-color: #d6e9c6;" | [[mw:MediaWiki 1.27|1.27]]
| (LTS)
| 2016-06-28
|  [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_27/RELEASE-NOTES-1.27 Full release notes], [[mw:Localization statistics|Language support]]
|
* Requires PHP version 5.5.9 or higher
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
! style="background-color: #d6e9c6;" | [[mw:MediaWiki 1.26|1.26]]
| (last version to support PHP 5.3.3)
| 2015-11-25
|  [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_26/RELEASE-NOTES-1.26 Full release notes], [[mw:Localization statistics|Language support]]
|
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
! style="background-color: #eed3d7;" | [[mw:MediaWiki 1.25|1.25]]
|
| 2015-05-25
| [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_25/RELEASE-NOTES-1.25 Full release notes], [[mw:Localization statistics|Language support]]
|
* [[mw:MediaWiki 1.25#Hit counters removed|Hit counters removed]].
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
! style="background-color: #eed3d7;" | [[mw:MediaWiki 1.24|1.24]]
|
| 2014-11-27
| [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_24/RELEASE-NOTES-1.24 Full release notes], [[mw:Localization statistics|Language support]]
|
* New localizations
* Performance improvements
* Category pages can now be moved
* Support for [[mediawikiwiki:Register globals|register_globals]] was dropped
* Many other changes
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
! style="background-color: #d6e9c6;" | [[mw:MediaWiki 1.23|1.23]]
| (LTS)
| 2014-06-05
| [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_23/RELEASE-NOTES-1.23 Full release notes], [[mw:Localization statistics|Language support]]
|
* Skin autodiscovery deprecated.
* Notifications
* CSS refresh for Vector

|- style="vertical-align:top;"
! style="background-color: #eed3d7;" | [[mw:MediaWiki 1.22|1.22]]
|
| 2013-12-07
| [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_22/RELEASE-NOTES-1.22 Full release notes], [[mw:Localization statistics|Language support]]
|
* Anti-spam and countervandalism improvements.
* Editing improvements.
* Upgrades to Vector and other skins.
* Support for Composer PHP dependency manager.
* Improvements to Login and signup forms.
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
! style="background-color: #eed3d7;" | [[mw:MediaWiki 1.21|1.21]]
|
| 2013-05-25
| [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_21/RELEASE-NOTES-1.21 Full release notes], [[mw:Localization statistics|Language support]]
| 
* Clearer email notifications.
* New [[mw:ContentHandler|ContentHandler]].
* Support for high DPI displays.
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
! style="background-color: #eed3d7;" | [[mw:MediaWiki 1.20|1.20]]
|
| 2012-11-07
| [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_20/RELEASE-NOTES-1.20 Full release notes], [[translatewiki:Translating:MediaWiki/statistics/1.20|Language support]]
|
* Required PHP version bumped to 5.3.2
* New diff view, greatly improved in clarity especially for whitespace and other small changes and color-blind users.
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
! style="background-color: #eed3d7;" | [[mw:MediaWiki 1.19|1.19]]
| (LTS) <br/> <span style="font-weight:normal;">(last version to support PHP 5.2.3)</span>
| 2012-05-02
| [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_19/RELEASE-NOTES-1.19 Full release notes], [[translatewiki:Translating:MediaWiki/statistics/1.19|Language support]]
|
* Required MySQL version bumped to 5.0.2
* More gender support for example in user lists
* LanguageConverter and some magic words now depend on the [[mw:Page content language|page content language]]
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
! style="background-color: #eed3d7;" | [[mw:MediaWiki 1.18|1.18]]
| <span style="font-weight:normal;">(last version to support MySQL 4)</span>
| 2011-11-28
| [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_18/RELEASE-NOTES-1.18 Full release notes], [[translatewiki:Translating:MediaWiki/statistics/1.18|Language support]]
|
* Better [[Writing direction|directionality]] (LTR, RTL) support
* User links are adapted to reflect the user's gender
* [[URI scheme|Protocol]]-relative [[URL]] support
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
! style="background-color: #eed3d7;" | [[mw:MediaWiki 1.17|1.17]]
|
| 2011-06-22
| [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_17/RELEASE-NOTES Full release notes], [[translatewiki:Translating:MediaWiki/statistics/1.17|Language support]]
|
* New installer
* [[mw:ResourceLoader|ResourceLoader]]
* Category sorting improved
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
! style="background-color: #eed3d7;" | [[mw:MediaWiki 1.16|1.16]]
|
| 2010-07-28
| [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_16/RELEASE-NOTES Full release notes],  [[translatewiki:Translating:MediaWiki/statistics/1.16|Language support]]
|
* The new skin [[Wikipedia:Vector|Vector]] was added
* [[RSS]]/[[Atom (standard)|Atom]] feeds are now included in the watchlist
* Blocking users from sending email via [[Special:Emailuser]] is now possible
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
! style="background-color: #eed3d7;" | 1.15
|
| 2009-06-10
| [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_15/RELEASE-NOTES Full release notes], [[translatewiki:Translating:MediaWiki/statistics/1.15|Language support]]
|
* Supports filename moving
* Added keywords {{GENDER:||}}, {{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}} and {{REVISIONUSER}}
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
! style="background-color: #eed3d7;" | 1.14
|
| 2009-02-22
| [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_14/RELEASE-NOTES Full release notes], [[translatewiki:Translating:MediaWiki/statistics/1.14|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 [[Cascading Style Sheets|CSS]] support for handheld devices
* Page history pages now have a date selector
* File upload history pages now display thumbnails for every file version
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
! style="background-color: #eed3d7;" | 1.13
|
| 2008-08-14
| [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_13/RELEASE-NOTES Full release notes], [[translatewiki:Translating:MediaWiki/statistics/1.13|Language support]]
|
* New special pages: [[Special:FileDuplicateSearch|FileDuplicateSearch]], [[Special:ListGroupRights|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
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
! style="background-color: #eed3d7;" | 1.12
|
| 2008-03-20
| [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_12/RELEASE-NOTES Full release notes], [[translatewiki:Translating:MediaWiki/statistics/1.12|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.
* [[meta:Migration to the new preprocessor|Parser preprocessor rewritten]]
* Userrights interface improved and generalized
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
! style="background-color: #eed3d7;" | 1.11
|
| 2007-09-10
| [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_11/RELEASE-NOTES Full release notes], [[translatewiki:Translating:MediaWiki/statistics/1.11|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
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
! style="background-color: #eed3d7;" | 1.10
|
| 2007-05-09
| [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_10/RELEASE-NOTES Full release notes], [[translatewiki:Translating:MediaWiki/statistics/1.10|Language support]]
|
* "Cascading protection" feature
* Improved tooltips and accesskey feature
* Various improvements to blocking and special page caching
* [[IPv6]] support
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
! style="background-color: #eed3d7;" | 1.9
|
| 2007-01-10
| [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_9/RELEASE-NOTES Full release notes], [[translatewiki:Translating:MediaWiki/statistics/1.9|Language support]]
|
* "Undo revision" feature
* Various improvements to blocking and special page caching
* Tables with [[Help:Sortable tables|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.
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
! style="background-color: #eed3d7;" | 1.8
|
| 2006-10-10
| [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_8/RELEASE-NOTES Full release notes], [[translatewiki:Translating:MediaWiki/statistics/1.8|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
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
! style="background-color: #eed3d7;" | 1.7
|
| 2006-07-07
| [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_7/RELEASE-NOTES Full release notes], [[translatewiki:Translating:MediaWiki/statistics/1.7|Language support]]
|
* MediaWiki 1.7 requires PHP 5 (5.1 recommended). PHP 4 is no longer supported.
* Deleted files can now be restored.
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
! style="background-color: #eed3d7;" | 1.6
| <span style="font-weight:normal;">(last version to support PHP 4)</span>
| 2006-04-05
| [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_6/RELEASE-NOTES Full release notes], [[translatewiki:Translating:MediaWiki/statistics/1.6|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.
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
! style="background-color: #eed3d7;" | 1.5
| <span style="font-weight:normal;">(last version to support MySQL 3)</span>
| 2005-10-05
| [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_5/RELEASE-NOTES Full release notes], [[translatewiki:Translating:MediaWiki/statistics/1.5|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]].
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
! style="background-color: #eed3d7;" | 1.4
|
| 2005-03-20
| [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_4/RELEASE-NOTES Full release notes], [[translatewiki:Translating:MediaWiki/statistics/1.4|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).
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
! style="background-color: #eed3d7;" | 1.3
|
| 2004-08-11
| [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_3/RELEASE-NOTES Full release notes]
|
* New, highly [[Cascading Style Sheets|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.
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
! style="background-color: #eed3d7;" | 1.2
|
| 2004-03-24
| [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_2/RELEASE-NOTES Full release notes]
|
* Experimental web-based installer.
* Image resizing and thumbnail generation.
* Editing toolbar for learning wiki syntax.
* User rights management within the wiki.
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
! style="background-color: #eed3d7;" | 1.1
|
| style="white-space: nowrap;" | 2003-12-08
| [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_1/RELEASE-NOTES 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.
|}