I am happy to announce the availability of the general release of MediaWiki 1.44!

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 1.44 final release. To see what's changed in 1.44, 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]

MediaWiki 1.44 is the first release of MediaWiki to formally drop PHP 7.4 and PHP 8.0 support; you should use PHP 8.1, 8.2, or 8.3. We also now have dropped support for Composer 1.x, and require Composer 2.x for those systems using it.

MediaWiki 1.44 is due to be supported until the end of June 2026.

It is noted that MediaWiki 1.42 is end-of-life as of June 30th 2025. A formal announcement was made this week, and will co-incide with the next security and maintenance release which was also scheduled for June 2025.

=== Changes since MediaWiki 1.44.0-rc.0 === * Localisation updates. * (T379445) debug: Migrate E_USER_ERROR to throw Error in DeprecationHelper. * (T379445) Setup: Switch vendor error from echo+E_USER_ERROR to echo+exit. * Setup: Update error message for composer dependencies check. * (T381341, T379445) widget: Remove outdated try/catch wrapper from SpinnerWidget. * (T379445) phpunit: Remove unused trigger_error from TestLogger. * (T396766) ApiQueryRevisionsBase: Cast ctype_digit() param to string. * (T356451) logger: Add void as return type on setLogger. * (T328921, T359868) Drop PHP 7.4/8.0 support from master (forward-port from MW 1.42). * Drop a few phan PhanImpossibleTypeComparison suppressions now we've dropped PHP 7.4. * Clean up resource type and phan suppression in postgres code. * structure tests: allow PHP 8.1 syntax and autoload enums. * (T379508, T381291) composer.json: Updated nikic/php-parser from ^5.3.1 to ^5.5.0. * (T351055) SpecialBrokenRedirects: Batch and preload destination title info. * Pass fname to LinkBatch->setCaller in more places. * SpecialBrokenRedirects: Dedupe logic via private getRedirectTarget helper. * (T351055) SpecialBrokenRedirects: Load redirect data in batch from database * (T388406) RefreshLinksJob: Check hasText before comparing HTML. * (T397521) Api: Fix permission checks in action=compare. * (T397472) [REST Sandbox] Remove SwaggerUI from MediaWiki Releases. * (T397883, T397643) htmlform: fix min/max validations on empty input in int/float fields * specials: SpecialTalkPage: Use config from request context. * (T387408) exception: Skip use of HookRunner when not autoloaded. * (T391343, CVE-2025-6589) SECURITY: BlockList: Hide rows containing suppressed users. * (T392746, CVE-2025-6590) SECURITY: Escape usernames in HTMLUserTextField validation errors. * (T392276, CVE-2025-6591) SECURITY: API: Escape i18n messages in action=feedcontributions. * (T396230, CVE-2025-6593) SECURITY: fix IP leak to unverified email. * (T389009, CVE-2025-6597) SECURITY: Do not treat autocreation as login for reauthentication. * (T389010, CVE-2025-6926) SECURITY: Allow extensions to supress the reauth flag on login. * (T397595, CVE-2025-6927) SECURITY: Fix autoblocks visibility when bl_deleted=1. * (T397595, CVE-2025-6927) SECURITY: Fix leak of hidden usernames via autoblocks of those users. * (T395063, CVE-2025-6594) SECURITY: apisandbox: Fix reflected XSS when invalid 'format' is provided. * (T398269) Replace away symfony php polyfills for PHP8/8.1. * Rest: Move ModuleConfigurationException into correct folder. * Cache: Move MessageCache hook interfaces into correct folder. * (T394556) uppercaseTitlesForUnicodeTransition: Add missing return. * installer: Always check return of IDatabase::fieldInfo in postgres. * autoload: Expand Autoloader::CORE_NAMESPACES.

Release notes: [0] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/core/+/refs/heads/R...

Bug report form: [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?tags=MW-1.44-R...

Open Bugs: [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.44-release/

********************************************************************** Download: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.44/mediawiki-1.44.0.tar.gz https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.44/mediawiki-1.44.0.zip

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Patch to previous version (1.44.0-rc.0): https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.44/mediawiki-1.44.0.patch.gz https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.44/mediawiki-1.44.0.patch.zip

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