I am happy to announce the availability of the general release of MediaWiki 1.45!
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 1.45 final release. To see what's changed in 1.45, 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 1.45 is due to be supported until the end of December 2026.
It is noted that MediaWiki 1.39 is due to become end-of-life at the end of December 31st 2025. A formal announcement will be made soon, and will co-incide with the next security and maintenance release.
=== Changes since MediaWiki 1.45.0-rc.0 === * (T411580) REST: add explicit cast to sitemapSize calcuation to avoid warning * UserGroupManager: Remove unused $recursionMap * (T351953) findBadBlobs: Fix the --scan-to option * (T411199) initEditCount: Fix count for users with no edits * (T406374) htmlform: Load ooui before infusing field cloner buttons * (T391882) HTMLFormFieldCloner: Fix multiple bugs related to conditional states * (T296188) MessagesZh*.php: Restore missing special page aliases * (T411214) ApiResult: Fix "ord(): Providing a string that is not one byte long is deprecated." * (T358666) Drop PHP 8.1 support * (T410914) Language: Fix PHP 8.5 warnings for NAN/INF string coercion in parseFormattedNumber * (T410914) Language: Fix PHP 8.5 warnings for NAN/INF string coercion in formatNumInternal * (T411018) IndexPager: Set '' as default value for 'order' * (T409718) Remove SpecialUserRightsChangeableGroups hook * (T411075) Api: Initialise reference variable * Api: Avoid re-stashing on publish with warnings via action=upload * RELEASE-NOTES-1.45: Add entry for jqueryMsg self-closing tag support * (T295568) mediawiki.jqueryMsg: Support self-closing HTML tags * (T411016) Upgrading wikimedia/cldr-plural-rule-parser (v2.0.0 => v3.0.0) * (T410963) Upgrade wikimedia/xmp-reader from 0.10.1 to 0.10.2 * tests: Fix @covers of MediaWiki\Languages to MediaWiki\Language * (T410920) Language: Prevent passing '' to ord() in lcfirst() * (T410912) Language: Fix "ord(): Providing a string that is not one byte long is deprecated." * (T410920) Language: Prevent passing '' to ord() in ucfirst() * (T410912) MessageCache: Fix "ord(): Providing a string that is not one byte long is deprecated." * (T405450) session: Use fresh MW services container in CLI mode (take 2) * (T405450) session: Use fresh MW services container in CLI mode * (T410934) Remove noop xml_parser_free() calls * (T401995) SECURITY: Disable xslt option by default * (T410928) resourceloader: Fix null offset in ClientHtml module sorting * (T410913) SpecialVersion: Fix "Cannot use bool as array" warning
Release notes: [0] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/core/+/refs/heads/R...
Bug report form: [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?tags=MW-1.45-R...
Open Bugs: [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.45-release/
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