I am happy to announce the availability of the general release of MediaWiki
1.44!
Tarballs have already been uploaded, and the git tag has been pushed.
Thanks to everyone who helped out with this release, especially thanks to
those who tested out the release candidate and provided feedback, as well
as the developers who worked on fixes for the 1.44 final release. To see
what's changed in 1.44, see the release notes file.[0] If you encounter any
issues, please file a task.[1] You can see open tasks for the branch on
Phabricator.[2]
MediaWiki 1.44 is the first release of MediaWiki to formally drop PHP 7.4
and PHP 8.0 support; you should use PHP 8.1, 8.2, or 8.3. We also now have
dropped support for Composer 1.x, and require Composer 2.x for those
systems using it.
MediaWiki 1.44 is due to be supported until the end of June 2026.
It is noted that MediaWiki 1.42 is end-of-life as of June 30th 2025. A
formal announcement was made this week, and will co-incide with the next
security and maintenance release which was also scheduled for June 2025.
=== Changes since MediaWiki 1.44.0-rc.0 ===
* Localisation updates.
* (T379445) debug: Migrate E_USER_ERROR to throw Error in DeprecationHelper.
* (T379445) Setup: Switch vendor error from echo+E_USER_ERROR to echo+exit.
* Setup: Update error message for composer dependencies check.
* (T381341, T379445) widget: Remove outdated try/catch wrapper from
SpinnerWidget.
* (T379445) phpunit: Remove unused trigger_error from TestLogger.
* (T396766) ApiQueryRevisionsBase: Cast ctype_digit() param to string.
* (T356451) logger: Add void as return type on setLogger.
* (T328921, T359868) Drop PHP 7.4/8.0 support from master
(forward-port from MW 1.42).
* Drop a few phan PhanImpossibleTypeComparison suppressions now we've
dropped
PHP 7.4.
* Clean up resource type and phan suppression in postgres code.
* structure tests: allow PHP 8.1 syntax and autoload enums.
* (T379508, T381291) composer.json: Updated nikic/php-parser from
^5.3.1 to ^5.5.0.
* (T351055) SpecialBrokenRedirects: Batch and preload destination title
info.
* Pass fname to LinkBatch->setCaller in more places.
* SpecialBrokenRedirects: Dedupe logic via private getRedirectTarget helper.
* (T351055) SpecialBrokenRedirects: Load redirect data in batch from
database
* (T388406) RefreshLinksJob: Check hasText before comparing HTML.
* (T397521) Api: Fix permission checks in action=compare.
* (T397472) [REST Sandbox] Remove SwaggerUI from MediaWiki Releases.
* (T397883, T397643) htmlform: fix min/max validations on empty input in
int/float fields
* specials: SpecialTalkPage: Use config from request context.
* (T387408) exception: Skip use of HookRunner when not autoloaded.
* (T391343, CVE-2025-6589) SECURITY: BlockList: Hide rows containing
suppressed
users.
* (T392746, CVE-2025-6590) SECURITY: Escape usernames in HTMLUserTextField
validation errors.
* (T392276, CVE-2025-6591) SECURITY: API: Escape i18n messages in
action=feedcontributions.
* (T396230, CVE-2025-6593) SECURITY: fix IP leak to unverified email.
* (T389009, CVE-2025-6597) SECURITY: Do not treat autocreation as login
for reauthentication.
* (T389010, CVE-2025-6926) SECURITY: Allow extensions to supress the reauth
flag on login.
* (T397595, CVE-2025-6927) SECURITY: Fix autoblocks visibility when
bl_deleted=1.
* (T397595, CVE-2025-6927) SECURITY: Fix leak of hidden usernames via
autoblocks of those users.
* (T395063, CVE-2025-6594) SECURITY: apisandbox: Fix reflected XSS when
invalid 'format' is provided.
* (T398269) Replace away symfony php polyfills for PHP8/8.1.
* Rest: Move ModuleConfigurationException into correct folder.
* Cache: Move MessageCache hook interfaces into correct folder.
* (T394556) uppercaseTitlesForUnicodeTransition: Add missing return.
* installer: Always check return of IDatabase::fieldInfo in postgres.
* autoload: Expand Autoloader::CORE_NAMESPACES.
Release notes:
[0]
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/core/+/refs/heads/…
Bug report form:
[1]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?tags=MW-1.44-…
Open Bugs:
[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.44-release/
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Download:
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.44/mediawiki-1.44.0.tar.gzhttps://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.44/mediawiki-1.44.0.zip
Download without bundled extensions:
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.44/mediawiki-core-1.44.0.tar.gzhttps://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.44/mediawiki-core-1.44.0.zip
Patch to previous version (1.44.0-rc.0):
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.44/mediawiki-1.44.0.patch.gzhttps://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.44/mediawiki-1.44.0.patch.zip
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