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This is the quarterly release snapshot for Summer 2006. While the code has been running on Wikipedia for some time, installation and upgrade bits may be less well tested. Bug fix releases may follow in the coming days or weeks.

MediaWiki is now using a "continuous integration" development model with quarterly snapshot releases. The latest development code is always kept "ready to run", and in fact runs our own sites on Wikipedia.

Release branches will continue to receive security updates for about a year from first release, but nonessential bugfixes and feature development happen on the development trunk and appear in the next quarterly release.

Those wishing to use the latest code instead of a branch release can obtain it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN

This is the first version of MediaWiki to require PHP 5. 5.1.x is recommended; 5.0 may work but is not well tested. (PHP 5.0 is no longer maintained; all PHP 5.0 users should upgrade to a current 5.1 release to ensure they have all security fixes.) PHP 4.x is no longer supported by MediaWiki. If you are unable to upgrade PHP, sorry, but you will have to stick with old versions of MediaWiki for now.

Full release notes: http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/tags/REL1_7_0/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/tags/REL1_7_0/phase3/HISTORY

Download: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wikipedia/mediawiki-1.7.0.tar.gz

MD5 checksum: d3b0ed529ae5ac9dfe713fbdbeae8025 mediawiki-1.7.0.tar.gz

SHA-1 checksum: 90c484ad4c2c20023ee1dcbd0eb2904e1a6a1727 mediawiki-1.7.0.tar.gz

Before asking for help, try the FAQ: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:FAQ

Low-traffic release announcements mailing list: (Please subscribe to receive announcements of security updates.) http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce

Wiki admin help mailing list: http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Bug report system: http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/

Play "stump the developers" live on IRC: #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net

- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)