Hi!
On 5/15/06, Eugene Zelenko eugene.zelenko@gmail.com wrote:
I think will be great, if updates of MediaWiki software on Wikimedia servers will be announced in this mailing list. Of course, I could look into Special:Version :-), but it'll be more handy.
IIANM, Wikimedia servers are running (almost) directly from the Subversion trunk, which means any change to the software affects Wikipedia (almost) immediately. There are no explicit version releases that could be announced.
If you want to be reminded of any software change, you could subscribe to mediawiki-cvs (see http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-cvs), but be advised the number of commits is not really low...
As far as I know it's not always the case. Servers are updated with some delays. One available indicator - version number. You could compare it with latest changes in SVN to see difference.
Eugene.