Dear Community,

We’re thrilled to announce the release of Wikibase Suite 1.39!

We recommend that everyone running older versions of Wikibase Suite update as soon as possible. 

In short:

We’re proud to announce that as of this release, Wikibase is now in sync with MediaWiki.  Our developers have worked very hard to reach this goal. Hooray!

In addition, the Wikibase version 1.39 release includes some changes in external libraries and in the output from the ActionAPI “wbsearchentities” call. For more information, including breaking changes and deprecations, see the detailed release notes.

Upgrading your Wikibase

Please note that starting with this release, the Wikibase extension must be enabled in MediaWiki using the Extension Registration mechanism. If you have been providing your own MediaWiki configuration file (LocalSettings.php) for your Wikibase container, make sure to check these upgrade instructions.

Are you looking for (more) documentation?

Our Wikibase documentation is the way to go for our installation instructions and FAQ. For Wikibase 1.39 developer documentation, have a look at https://doc.wikimedia.org/Wikibase/REL1_39/. 

Want to know what’s new?

Sign up for our mailing list to follow and participate in discussions regarding the development of Wikibase: 

https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikibaseug.lists.wikimedia.org/

Got feedback or questions?

Join our channels on Telegram https://t.me/+WBsf9-C9KPuMZCDT or  https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/5755/.

We can’t wait to hear what you think of the new version!

Best,

Valerie, on behalf of the WMDE Suite team