Dear Wikibase Community,

We’re happy to announce Wikibase Suite Deploy 5.0.0 as well as Wikibase Image 5.0.0 today!

The biggest highlight of this release is the switch to the latest version of MediaWiki: 1.44. Read about MediaWiki 1.44 in their changelog https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.44.

Also, the Wikibase Suite Call Back https://github.com/wmde/wikibase-release-pipeline/blob/main/deploy/README.md#call-back feature announced earlier this month got some updates: It moved to the Wikibase Image https://github.com/wmde/wikibase-release-pipeline/blob/main/build/wikibase/README.md#call-back in order to allow instances not relying on our Deploy package to also participate. Also, we made the setting of METADATA_CALLBACK mandatory now. You can of course still opt out of the feature by setting METADATA_CALLBACK=false In your environment variables (e.g. your .env file when using Deploy).

Furthermore, we improved the out-of-the-box configuration of the WikibaseManifest extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikibaseManifest which now reports URLs of adjacent services such as WDQS, WDQS frontend, and QuickStatements automatically. This is part of our initiative to align with other products such as Wikibase Cloud as well as working towards our vision of the Linked Open Data Web. 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/tree/main/deploy#minor-and-patch-updates-for-wbs-deploy .

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