Topic on Talk:MediaWiki 1.31

Dear All,

We are currently running on the MediaWiki version 1.28 and the business want to know the need of upgrading it to the version 1.31.

Could you please help me with the strong reason for the upgrade.

Would there be any impact if we continue using 1.28?

Thanks in advance.

MediaWiki 1.28 is no longer supported, which means, in case there's a new security bug found, there will be no fix for that, and your wiki will remain vulnerable. The actual impact may vary depending on how this bug could be exploited and the severity of it. In business it's better to be safe than sorry.

Some motivation:

• Added new magic word {{PAGELANGUAGE}} which returns the language code of the page being parsed.
• Users can now be assigned to user groups for a limited period of time.
• Added the ability to search for contributions within an IP range at Special:Contributions.
• MediaWiki 1.31#What's new, PHP 7 compatibility...