Download MediaWiki 1.5.6/1.4.14

MediaWiki is a Wiki engine released under the GPL license that can be used to create and manage content. It is used, among others, for the websites of the Wikimedia Foundation, such as Wikipedia, Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wikibooks and Wikiquote. The appearance can be completely adjusted to your own wishes with the help of skins this page are some examples of different skins. The developers patched a number of security vulnerabilities and did some additional maintenance that enabled versions 1.5.6 and 1.4.14 to be released. The included announcements look like this:

Version 1.5.6:

MediaWiki 1.5.6 is a security and bug fix maintenance release. A bug in edit comment formatting could send PHP into an infinite loop if certain malformed links were included. In most installations, this would cause the script to fail after PHP’s 30-second failsafe timeout. Some improvements have been made to the installer which should make installation possible on a system with a broken MySQL “root” account.

• (bug 4258) When installing under IIS, $wgArticlePath = “$wgScript?title=$1” should be set
• (bug 4510) Correct Barnes & Noble bookstore URLs
• (bug 4504) Use site language for namespace name resolution
• Installer fixes from HEAD backported; now uses a more sensible method of establishing which mySQL user to use, which clears up bug 921 et al. Minor changes to installer.
• Fix problem reported on mailing list where re-initialising stats didn’t work (can’t insert duplicate rows with the same id field)
• (bug 1122) gray out ‘older revision’ when viewing first article revision.
• Respect database prefix in dumpHTML.inc
• Minor improvements to removeUnusedAccounts.php maintenance script
• Fix for single-digit week numbers from {{CURRENTWEEK}}, broken by PHP 4.4.1
• Removed read-only check from Database::query()
• Added –conf option to command line scripts, allowing the user to specify a different LocalSettings.php.

Version 1.5.5:

MediaWiki 1.5.5 is a security and bug fix maintenance release. Detection for uploads of Windows Metafile (.wmf) images has been added to help protect against a client-side vulnerability in unpatched Microsoft Windows operating systems. Sites which have enabled uploads and added non-standard file types (such as .ogg, .doc, or .pdf) should upgrade to this release to ensure that malicious .wmf files can’t be uploaded with a fake extension; such files could put visitors to the site at risk. Additionally, a maintenance script removeUnusedAccounts.php has been added; this replaces an older Perl script which had not been updated for the new schema in 1.5.

Version 1.4.14:

MediaWiki 1.4.14 is a security and bug fix maintenance release. A bug in edit comment formatting could send PHP into an infinite loop if certain malformed links were included. In most installations, this would cause the script to fail after PHP’s 30-second failsafe timeout.

Version 1.4.13:

MediaWiki 1.4.13 is a security maintenance release. Detection for uploads of Windows Metafile (.wmf) images has been added to help protect against a client-side vulnerability in unpatched Microsoft Windows operating systems. Sites which have enabled uploads and added non-standard file types (such as .ogg, .doc, or .pdf) should upgrade to this release to ensure that malicious .wmf files can’t be uploaded with a fake extension; such files could put visitors to the site at risk.