Download MediaWiki 1.5.7

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. Version 1.5.7 has recently been released and includes the following release notes:

Version 1.5.7:

MediaWiki 1.5.7 is a bug fix maintenance release. Most importantly, a security issue in the installer has been fixed. The bug affects new installations of 1.5.6 only. If the user specified the MySQL root password, to allow the installer to create an unprivileged account, the installer would not only create the new account but also change the root password to be equal to the password of the new account. Anyone affected by this bug will need to change the root password back manually. For information about how to change passwords in MySQL please see: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/passwords.html

This version includes fixes for compatibility with Internet Explorer 7 beta 2, and various other bugs.

• Default main page content improved per bug 4690
• Fix dependence on hardcoded UNIQ_PREFIX in LanguageConverter.php
• Fixed Special:Unlockdb
• Maintenance script to delete unused text records
• Maintenance script to delete non-current revisions
• Maintenance script to wipe a page and all revisions from the database
• (bug 4768) Wrong Russian translation (typo)
• Performance bug fix: propagate equality manually for Revision fetches
• (bug 4773) PHP fatal error when invalid title passed to Special:Export
• Added missing table defs. for transcache to installer schemas
• (bug 4824) IE7 beta 2 broke compatibility with PNG logo workarounds, and seems to work ok with other bits. No longer including the IE workarounds JavaScript for IE 7 and above.
• (bug 2532) Image directory structure migration bug
• (bug 4881) Correction to the fix for 1487; Ipblocklist showed ‘no blocks’ message at the end of the list even if there were blocks.
• (bug 4805) Removed more wikipedia references from LanguageUk.php
• Introduce $wgWantedPagesThreshold per bug 5011; Special:Wantedpages will not list pages with less than this number of links. Defaults to 1.
• Allow customization of paging limits for items in categories using the $wgCategoryPagingLimit global, per bug 4970.
• Improve “nogomatch” text to make it more obvious that a page can be created.
• (bug 5113) Spelling error in French language file
• Don’t change the password of the MySQL root user.