Dear Wikibase Community,

We’re happy to announce Wikibase Suite Deploy 6.0.0 as well as Wikibase Image 6.0.0 today!

The biggest highlight of this release is the switch to the latest version of MediaWiki: 1.45. Read about MediaWiki 1.45 in their changelog https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.45.

This release also includes a Wikibase Suite version reporting feature in Special:Version and via the Action API. More details are mentioned in the changelogs for Wikibase Suite Deploy https://github.com/wmde/wikibase-release-pipeline/blob/main/deploy/CHANGELOG.md and Wikibase https://github.com/wmde/wikibase-release-pipeline/blob/main/build/wikibase/CHANGELOG.md . InstallationNew installation

To install Wikibase Suite Deploy, follow the instructions in our documentation https://github.com/wmde/wikibase-release-pipeline/tree/main/deploy#initial-setup .

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 https://github.com/wmde/wikibase-release-pipeline/blob/main/deploy/1-updating-and-versioning.md . Got feedback or questions?

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Best,

Deepesha, on behalf of the WMDE Wikibase Suite team -- Developer Advocate

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