Blog/MediaWiki Upgrade
2020-09-26: MediaWiki 1.35.0 upgrade[edit | edit source]
MediaWiki is the software that runs Wikipedia and thousands of other wiki sites. Yesterday they released the brand new 1.35.0 version.
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2020-September/000263.html
It is a bundled with a new VisualEditor extension as well as lots of security fixed.
Head over to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download to fetch the latest release.
Don't forget to read the release notes https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.35
A note on upgrading[edit | edit source]
I've done the upgrade myself, and though fairly straight-forward I suggest you start fresh and move back images/*, LocalSettings.php and then re-install any plugins you want to use. Some are not compatible with the new MediaWiki version, and others will need updates to work.
Running on Apache[edit | edit source]
In order for the VisualEditor to work properly on Subpages you need to add AllowEncodedSlashes NoDecode to your vhost config.[1]
