On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Schneelocke <[email protected]> wrote: > Hiya, > > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 21:26, Boris Epstein <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> >> I am a little confused. >> >> The MW site http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki mentions two >> versions available at once: >> >> 1.15.3 – 2010-04-07 >> 1.6.12 – 2009-02-07 >> >> Meanwhile, a Beta version of 1.16 is out there, supposedly. >> >> Yet this extension: >> >> http://pluto.htu.tuwien.ac.at/devel_wiki/SecurePages >> >> requires "1.16 or later". So which is? Where do I get the truly >> current/latest version? >> >> Thanks. > > 1.15.3 is the latest general release. 1.6.12 is the latest release > that is compatible with PHP 4, but unless you absolutely cannot use > PHP 5 at all, you shouldn't use it. > > The next release (not counting security fixes etc.) will be 1.16.0, in > the 1.16 branch. Right now, the latest version there is 1.16.0beta2. > > Finally, there is the version that the Wikimedia projects themselves > run on; that one is, for all practical purposes, the current > development tree, which is kept in a Subversion repository. You can > get this code, too (using Subversion), but unless you plan to resync > regularly, it's probably a bad idea. > > For a new wiki, you should probably go with 1.15.3, or - if you don't > mind using beta software - 1.16.0beta2. > > HTH! > > -- > schnee > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >
Thanks Schnee! How stable is 1.16 Beta, do you know? Boris. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
