[Mediawiki-l] which is the latest version of MediaWiki available?

[Chad]

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Boris Epstein <borepstein at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am a little confused.
>
> The MW site http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki mentions two
> versions available at once:
>
> 1.15.3 – 2010-04-07
> 1.6.12 – 2009-02-07
>
> Meanwhile, a Beta version of 1.16 is out there, supposedly.
>
> Yet this extension:
>
> http://pluto.htu.tuwien.ac.at/devel_wiki/SecurePages
>
> requires "1.16 or later". So which is? Where do I get the truly
> current/latest version?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Boris.
>
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1.15.3 is the latest stable release. The 1.6.x branch is ancient
and only designed for people using PHP4.

You can always get the latest stable release from <mediawiki.org/wiki/Download>

If you really want to use the beta 1.16 release, you can get it from
http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.16/mediawiki-1.16.0beta2.tar.gz

-Chad