I am happy to announce the availability of the general release of MediaWiki 1.43!

Tarballs have already been uploaded, and the git tag has been pushed.

Thanks to everyone who helped out with this release, especially thanks to those who tested out the release candidate and provided feedback, as well as the developers who worked on fixes for the 1.43 final release. To see what's changed in 1.43, see the release notes file.[0] If you encounter any issues, please file a task.[1] You can see open tasks for the branch on Phabricator.[2]

It’s important to highlight that this release marks the first led by the MediaWiki Engineering Group. We sincerely thank everyone who supported us as we continue to learn and enhance our processes to uphold our commitment to releasing MediaWiki as Open Source.

MediaWiki 1.43 is due to be supported until the end of December 2027.

=== Changes since MediaWiki 1.43.0-rc.0 ===
* (T381728) Use PHP 8.3 in MediaWiki-Docker
* (T382375) Misaligned label margins on Special:MathStatus
* (T382196) \overbrace rendered below (not above) in MathML and client-side
  Mathjax
* (T381310) Math Popup not working in newer version of Popup-Extension
* (T380079) This page is using the deprecated ResourceLoader module
  "mediawiki.Uri" on page load
* (T381311) Preview has wrong location in MathML mode
* (T381046) Preview not working with MathML rendering
* (T381102) <math>\left(a\right)'</math> in MathML and MathJax renders
  with one prime symbol too much
* (T380184) <math>\operatorname{vec}</math> crashes with native MathML
* (T380654) vertical space between multline equations is ignored
* (T375274) mediawiki_function_names math functions eat the following paren in
  native MML mode
* (T373732) Audit SUL3 shared-domain i18n messages for XSS
* (T381068) PHP Deprecated: Creation of dynamic property
  MediaWiki\\Auth\\ButtonAuthenticationRequest::$skipReset is deprecated
  at AuthenticationRequest.php:182
* (T20110) Define AbuseFilter consequence to display a CAPTCHA
* (T332743) On private wikis the ellipsis should not appear above 720px
  (wikitech, office, translate wiki)

Release notes:
[0] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/core/+/refs/heads/REL1_43/RELEASE-NOTES-1.43

Bug report form:
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?tags=MW-1.43-Release

Open Bugs:
[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.43-release/

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Download:
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.43/mediawiki-1.43.0.tar.gz
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.43/mediawiki-1.43.0.zip

Download without bundled extensions:
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.43/mediawiki-core-1.43.0.tar.gz
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.43/mediawiki-core-1.43.0.zip

Patch to previous version (1.43.0-rc.0):
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.43/mediawiki-1.43.0.patch.gz
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.43/mediawiki-1.43.0.patch.zip

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https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.43/mediawiki-core-1.43.0.zip.sig
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.43/mediawiki-1.43.0.tar.gz.sig
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.43/mediawiki-1.43.0.zip.sig
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.43/mediawiki-1.43.0.patch.gz.sig
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.43/mediawiki-1.43.0.patch.zip.sig

Public keys:
https://www.mediawiki.org/keys/keys.html