Dear Wikibase Community,

Today we’re releasing the first version of Wikibase Suite Deploy 4. With this new major version, we’re shipping the following improvements:

Highlights: 

- MediaWiki 1.43 + Wikibase
Wikibase Suite Deploy 4 ships Wikibase Image 4, which is based on MediaWiki 1.43, the latest stable release. All extensions have been updated to their 1.43 branches. This of course includes the Wikibase extension which now ships the new REST API. That means that on Wikbase Suite Deploy 4 you can now read and write your data using the REST API!

- User Defined Extensions
In Wikibase Suite Deploy 4, you can add additional MediaWiki extensions to your stack. We provide a simple interface for you to load your custom extensions. For more information, check out the documentation on User Defined Extensions.

- Streamlined URLs and HTTP traffic routing
For Wikibase Suite Deploy 4, we refactored and simplified the HTTP proxy infrastructure as well as updated the default URLs. Wikibase Suite Deploy 4 will now serve on the following URLs:

MediaWiki with the Wikibase extension: https://wikibase.example

MediaWiki REST API including Wikibase REST API: https://wikibase.example/w/rest.php

Front end for WDQS (Query GUI): https://query.wikibase.example

SPARQL API endpoint for WDQS: https://query.wikibase.example/sparql

QuickStatements tool: https://wikibase.example/tools/quickstatements

Of course, the base domain (here wikibase.example) needs to be customized to match your domain name. Checkout deploy/template.env and update your deploy/.env file.

- Simplified WDQS front end configuration
Wikibase Suite Deploy 4 now exposes the configuration file for wdqs-frontend in the deploy/config directory in order to simplify customization of settings such as title, logo and query examples. After the first launch, the config will appear in the directory.

How to get it:

- New installation
To install Wikibase Suite Deploy, follow the instructions in our documentation.

- Updating from earlier versions of Wikibase Suite Deploy
For information on how to upgrade from earlier versions of Wikibase Suite Deploy, check out our upgrading documentation.

Got feedback or questions?
We also have a new Wikibase Suite Telegram channel to specifically discuss self-hosted Wikibase instances! You can join the new channel here: https://t.me/wikibasesuite/1

Join our Wikibase channel on Telegram https://t.me/+WBsf9-C9KPuMZCDT or check out our Phabricator board https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/5755/.

We can’t wait to hear what you think of the new version!

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Best,
Deepesha, on behalf of the WMDE Wikibase Suite team