To users of MediaWiki versions 1.42 and earlier:These versions are no longer supported. Please update to a newer version of MediaWiki.
MediaWiki isfree software licensed under version 2 (or later version) of theGNU General Public License.Because MediaWiki is licensed free of charge, there is no warranty, to the extent permitted by applicable law.Readthe full text of the GNU GPL version 2 for details.
MediaWiki requires PHP 8.2.0+, a webserver software, and eitherMariaDB 10.3.0+,MySQL 5.7.0+,SQLite3.24.0+ orPostgreSQL 10.0+.Using MariaDB or MySQL is recommended as Wikipedia uses MariaDB.Any other database servers are less tested and you may likely run into some bugs.
For more information, please read the pages onsystem requirements andcompatibility.
To download MediaWiki 1.45.1 in a terminal on a Linux machine usingwget, do:
wgethttps://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.45/mediawiki-1.45.1.tar.gz
Alternatively, usingcURL:
curl-Ohttps://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.45/mediawiki-1.45.1.tar.gz
Some users may prefer to skip manual installation by using a pre-integrated MediaWikisoftware appliance orhosting services.Repositories of someLinux distributions also increasingly offer packages for MediaWiki, with different degrees of frequency and extensions coverage e.g.Debian (including derivatives like Ubuntu), Fedora, Gentoo.
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If your MediaWiki installation is heavily modified, it may be difficult to incorporate the latest official changes/updates to MediaWiki. To support such users, we maintain old branches of our code for up to a year for the legacy release and up to three years for the legacy long term support release.
To contribute to the development of MediaWiki core or extensions,Download from Git to get the latest version.For more information about setting up a development environment, seeHow to become a MediaWiki hacker.
You can find tarballs (with extension*.tar.gz) of old versions of MediaWiki in theMediaWiki download archives.
