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Earlier today I branched off 1.7 in our subversion repository, and made a release candidate:
http://svn.wikimedia.org/snapshots/mediawiki-1.7.0rc.tar.gz
It's marked as just 1.7.0 internally. If there's no reports of major breakage by tomorrow morning I'll re-zip it as 1.7.0 final. I'd appreciate if a few people could test installation and upgrading, which don't receive as much testing from Wikipedia as other code.
- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com writes:
It's marked as just 1.7.0 internally. If there's no reports of major breakage by tomorrow morning I'll re-zip it as 1.7.0 final. I'd appreciate if a few people could test installation and upgrading, which don't receive as much testing from Wikipedia as other code.
Installing with the experimental UTF-8 support terminates with this message:
Warning: mysql_query(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /var/www/w17rc/mw17rc1/includes/Database.php on line 620
A database query syntax error has occurred. The last attempted database query was: "(SQL query hidden)" from within function "". MySQL returned error "0: "
Installing with the backwards compatible UTF-8 works OK.
Anders Wegge Jakobsen wrote:
Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com writes:
It's marked as just 1.7.0 internally. If there's no reports of major breakage by tomorrow morning I'll re-zip it as 1.7.0 final. I'd appreciate if a few people could test installation and upgrading, which don't receive as much testing from Wikipedia as other code.
Installing with the experimental UTF-8 support terminates with this message:
Warning: mysql_query(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /var/www/w17rc/mw17rc1/includes/Database.php on line 620
A database query syntax error has occurred. The last attempted database query was: "(SQL query hidden)" from within function "". MySQL returned error "0: "
It works fine for me, with MySQL 5.0.21.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Question... I installed 1.4 just over a year ago and now there have been at least 3 major revs since then. Is there any point of maturity forseeable on the horizon, or do we just have to expect a new must-have revision every few months or so?
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org]On Behalf Of Brion Vibber Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 8:10 PM To: Wikimedia developers; MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki 1.7.0 release candidate
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Earlier today I branched off 1.7 in our subversion repository, and made a release candidate:
http://svn.wikimedia.org/snapshots/mediawiki-1.7.0rc.tar.gz
It's marked as just 1.7.0 internally. If there's no reports of major breakage by tomorrow morning I'll re-zip it as 1.7.0 final. I'd appreciate if a few people could test installation and upgrading, which don't receive as much testing from Wikipedia as other code.
- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Carlton B wrote:
Question... I installed 1.4 just over a year ago and now there have been at least 3 major revs since then. Is there any point of maturity forseeable on the horizon, or do we just have to expect a new must-have revision every few months or so?
MediaWiki is developed to match the ongoing requirements of Wikipedia and her sister sites, and will continue to be so developed for the forseeable future.
Releases are made for the convenience of other people who also use our software. We attempt to strike a balance between stability and timeliness; release too often and we might as well just say "get it from SVN", release too rarely and everybody complains they're missing the cool features they see on Wikipedia.
Currently we're making quarterly snapshot releases, so the next major release will be 1.8 in October.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On 7/7/06, Carlton B thelarch@bellsouth.net wrote:
Question... I installed 1.4 just over a year ago and now there have been at least 3 major revs since then. Is there any point of maturity forseeable on the horizon, or do we just have to expect a new must-have revision every few months or so?
The only must-have releases are the security-related ones, or the ones which have features you consider "must-have".
All releases are pretty well mature. That's why they get released. =)
Upgrading has been remarkably easy.. often under 5 minutes of work. Although from 1.4, I can see some LocalSettings.php settings changing, so it could be a bit annoying to get up to speed that first time.
Carlton B wrote:
Question... I installed 1.4 just over a year ago and now there have been at least 3 major revs since then. Is there any point of maturity forseeable on the horizon, or do we just have to expect a new must-have revision every few months or so?
Hello Carlton,
You can get a simplified release history on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki#Release_history
1.5 is mostly about backend stuff (utf8, database redesign) 1.6 fixes a lot of bugs 1.7 is more OO
Brion switched to a quarterly release cycle, so you can expect 1.8 in october and 1.9 in january :)
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