* Platonides Platonides@gmail.com [Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:40:40 +0100]:
Dmitriy Sintsov wrote:
Sometimes newer versions of extensions have important fixes, but unfortunately these extensions versions may be incompatible with
older
versions of MediaWiki, at the same time. It probably will be harder
to
backport. Ok, nevermind. Dmitriy
So you also update mediawiki?
Sure, I do. However, the old core was privately patched, so custom patches has to be ported to new core. Also, newer versions of extensions sometimes work with new core, sometimes they don't. Sorry, I've probably asked too much. Dmitriy