Boris Epstein wrote:

Hello everyone,

I am a little confused.

The MW site http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki mentions two versions available at once:

1.15.3 – 2010-04-07 1.6.12 – 2009-02-07

Meanwhile, a Beta version of 1.16 is out there, supposedly.

Yet this extension:

http://pluto.htu.tuwien.ac.at/devel_wiki/SecurePages

requires "1.16 or later". So which is? Where do I get the truly current/latest version?

Thanks.

Boris.

Latest version is 1.15.3 You can try the beta of 1.16 if you prefer.

1.16.12 is old, unmaintained, has security issues and is only listed there because it works in PHP 4, which has also reached its end of life.

Hiya,

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 21:26, Boris Epstein borepstein@gmail.com wrote:

Hello everyone,

I am a little confused.

The MW site http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki mentions two versions available at once:

1.15.3 – 2010-04-07 1.6.12 – 2009-02-07

Meanwhile, a Beta version of 1.16 is out there, supposedly.

Yet this extension:

http://pluto.htu.tuwien.ac.at/devel_wiki/SecurePages

requires "1.16 or later". So which is? Where do I get the truly current/latest version?

Thanks.

1.15.3 is the latest general release. 1.6.12 is the latest release that is compatible with PHP 4, but unless you absolutely cannot use PHP 5 at all, you shouldn't use it.

The next release (not counting security fixes etc.) will be 1.16.0, in the 1.16 branch. Right now, the latest version there is 1.16.0beta2.

Finally, there is the version that the Wikimedia projects themselves run on; that one is, for all practical purposes, the current development tree, which is kept in a Subversion repository. You can get this code, too (using Subversion), but unless you plan to resync regularly, it's probably a bad idea.

For a new wiki, you should probably go with 1.15.3, or - if you don't mind using beta software - 1.16.0beta2.

HTH!