MediaWiki 1.44.1
3 October 2025
MediaWiki version 1.44.1 is now available (security release).
Upgrading to MediaWiki 1.44.1
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What's New in MediaWiki 1.44.1
- Localisation updates.
- (T385890, T398448) ApiQueryCategoryMembers: Use correct index for categorylinks.
- (T398860) Straight join collation table to make sure it is last.
- updateCollation: Drop 'order by cl_from' from query.
- (T399672) mime: Add mime types for *.less.
- (T388729) Parser: Handle regex failure in extractBody method.
- (T399064) Parser::extractBody: Use possessive matcher and once-only subpattern.
- (T399450) file: Init LocalFile::$upgraded with false.
- (T399793) PermissionManager: Fix missingPermissionError() not returning early when $short is true.
- rdbms: Fix GTID style detection for MySQL servers.
- ParserCacheSerializationTestCases: back port ParserOutput changes from 1.45.
- ParserCacheSerializationTestCases: distinguish empty ToC from missing ToC.
- diff: Avoid Phan warning with some Wikidiff2 versions.
- (T327439) ParserOutput: Prepare to allow JsonCodec serialization of TOCData.
- (T386208) Exif: Handle malformed gps tags.
- i18n: Add Special:MyLanguage to mediawiki.org links.
- (T381699) Do not use Special:MyLanguage for category links.
- maintenance: Fix sql for touched-only option of refreshLinks script.
- (T393028) ImagePage: Remove PNG previews line for native SVG rendering.
- (T394796) installer: Use input type from params if provided.
- (T374042) PostgresUpdater: Fix typo in sites_group index renaming instruction.
- (T401088) maintenance: Fix paging in findMissingFiles.php.
- (T401570) rdbms: Fix read-only detection for MariaDB 12.
- (T400881) filerepo: Improve identification of ForeignAPIRepo requests.
- (T386761) docs: Mention deprecated Skin::appendSpecialPagesLinkIfAbsent in release notes.
- (T397900) Don't use RequestContext in CommentParserFactory construction.
- (T402037) config: Change Reauthenticate Time Default.
- WebPHandler: Read all of the VP8L canvas height.
- Forward-compatibility serialization data for SelserContext.
- (T264389, T161647) Make Content JsonCodecable.
- maintenance: Fix SQL range for moveToExternal.
- (T403922) Installer: SQLite searchindex step depends on tableinstall .
- Use JsonCodec to serialize SelserContext.
- Forward-compat data for SelserContext w/ JSON-encoded Content.
- (T402066) Skin: Table width should not exceed content width.
- (T372444, T404230) DeletedContribsPager: Use the UserIdentity object instead of the raw target string.
- (T403922) Installer: Merge applySourceFile status into Task status.
- Upgrading wikimedia/parsoid (v0.21.0 => v0.21.1).
- (T394968) Metadata: ignore LocationCreated, similar to LocationShown.