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Download MediaWiki 1.46.2 (.zip)
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To users of MediaWiki versions 1.44 and 1.42 and earlier: These versions are no longer supported. Please update to a newer version of MediaWiki.
MediaWiki is free software licensed under version 2 (or later version) of the GNU General Public License. Because MediaWiki is licensed free of charge, there is no warranty, to the extent permitted by applicable law. Read the full text of the GNU GPL version 2 for details.
MediaWiki requires PHP 8.3.0+, a webserver software, and either MariaDB 10.3.0+, MySQL 5.7.0+, SQLite 3.31.0+ or PostgreSQL 10.0+. Using MariaDB or MySQL is recommended as Wikipedia uses MariaDB. Any other database servers are less tested and you may likely run into some bugs.
For more information, please read the pages on system requirements and compatibility.
To download MediaWiki 1.46.2 in a terminal on a Linux machine using wget, do:
Alternatively, using cURL:
Some users may prefer to skip manual installation by using a pre-integrated MediaWiki software appliance or hosting services. Repositories of some Linux distributions also increasingly offer packages for MediaWiki, with different degrees of frequency and extensions coverage e.g. Debian (including derivatives like Ubuntu), Fedora, Gentoo.
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If your MediaWiki installation is heavily modified, it may be difficult to incorporate the latest official changes/updates to MediaWiki. To support such users, we maintain old branches of our code for up to a year for the legacy release and up to three years for the legacy long term support release.
To contribute to the development of MediaWiki core or extensions, Download from Git to get the latest version. For more information about setting up a development environment, see How to become a MediaWiki hacker .
You can find tarballs (with extension *.tar.gz) of old versions of MediaWiki in the MediaWiki download archives.
Some missing releases are available as tags of the Git repository.