MediaWiki: Releases, patches & end-of-life
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Lifecycle guide for MediaWiki from MediaWiki

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2026-03-13

What is MediaWiki?

Automate product release and end-of-life managementMediaWiki is a free and open-source wiki software package written in PHP. It serves as the platform for Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects, used by hundreds of millions of people each month.
 

The entire lifecycle of MediaWiki

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of MediaWiki. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.
MediaWiki (MediaWiki) release, version and end-of-life information
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Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product MediaWiki (MediaWiki)
 

Facts and figures about MediaWiki

Product
MediaWiki
Vendor
MediaWiki
Latest version
1.45.1
Number of releases
45
Number of versions
460
Number of unstable versions
94
Number of versions affected by CVE
351
Licence
GNU General Public License v2
 
 

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