This is to announce that we are in the final days of preparing the Wikibase Spring Release. We anticipate publishing the new release on or before May 15, 2021. An official release announcement will be made on the day we publish.

The upcoming tarball and Docker releases will be compatible with MediaWiki 1.35 and will contain a two new Wikibase features:

• Federated Properties: a feature that allows a newly created Wikibase instance to use the existing Properties of Wikidata or another Wikibase. Please note that this feature has some limitations, namely that you cannot use local properties once you’ve enabled federation mode.

• WikibaseManifest: the new release is compatible with Wikimedia Deutschland’s extension that exposes automatically discovered configuration information about your local Wikibase for use by external tools. 

We would also like to highlight that the new-and-improved Docker images will now contain even more useful components, such as extensions that were requested for inclusion by the community.

Finally, the release announcement will provide the location of detailed release notes, improved Wikibase installation documentation, instructions for upgrading your Wikibase to the new version, and instructions for enabling/configuring new features.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask.

Cheers,