Topic on Extension talk:NativeSvgHandler

I am using mediawiki on my local NAS. This NAS is a Synology NAS. Synology provides additional software packages similar to the extensions here. One of this packages is a Mediawiki installation. This works fine, so far. Unfortunately the provided Mediawiki version is still 1.30.0. I do not want to fiddle around with updating this installation because I do not know what will happen, if there comes a regular update by Synology.

But I want to use SVG images. I did not manage to get a SVG rendering software up and running. And since this wiki is only presented locally, my browser can do this job. This software seems to be the extension to make this work. I used an old version of this extension in a first mediawiki attempt on my NAS. That version works. But now this version is not available anymore here. I can only download the lastest version. And that version is fully incompatible with Mediawiki 1.30.0.

Is there a way to get hands on a version that is compatible to 1.30.0? Many thanks for an answer in advance!

First of all, you should urge Synology to update MediaWiki, as MW 1.30 reached end of life nine months ago, and it wasn’t even an LTS version (see Version lifecycle). If it’s impossible, https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-NativeSvgHandler/tree/df0a5b903f seems to be a pre-1.31 version (a way pre-1.31 one: its last commit was before the release of MW 1.27). You can download it using the “Clone or download” button.

@Wgkderdicke Hi there! I created a new branch called legacy for version before 1.31, you can find it both on Gerrit and Github.

Note that the installation for the old version is a bit different, instead of using wfLoadExtension( 'NativeSvgHandler' );, you will need to use require_once "$IP/extensions/NativeSvgHandler/NativeSvgHandler.php"; instead.

Just like @Tacsipacsi mentioned, you should urge Synology to update Mediawiki at least to the latest LTS version (1.31.6) as the 1.30.0 is not in support and it is never a LTS nor the latest version in 1.30 either.

Thanks for your answers. I managed to get that old version running. The update issue seems already to be a topic.