[SAC] Fwd: MediaWiki 1.16 is too old and unsupported

[Jeff McKenna]

I received a few of these messages as well (I must have a few mediawiki
installs out there).  I did find a page stating the installed version
number: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Special:Version  But, I'm assuming we
are ok with running an old version so I never reported this.

-jeff



On 13-01-18 2:46 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I'm not exactly clear how I got this message, perhaps via
> info at osgeo.org, but I thought this was the group to see it.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Federico Leva <federico.leva at studenti.unimi.it>
> Date: Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 10:31 AM
> Subject: MediaWiki 1.16 is too old and unsupported
> To: federico.leva at studenti.unimi.it
> 
> 
> 
> Hello,
> we have noted that your wiki still runs MediaWiki 1.16, a definitely
> old release (July 2010) whose support ended more than a year ago, in
> November 2011. Several security patches have been included since then.
> The current stable release is MediaWiki 1.20.2
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.20>(https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.20):
> it's strongly suggested to update to the last stable release or to the
> current long-term support (LTS) release, 1.19.3, which will be
> supported until May 2015.
> Please see the page
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading#Why_upgrade.3F>(https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading#Why_upgrade.3F)
> for more information on why you should upgrade, instructions, links to
> release notes and more resources. Since 1.18, the installation process
> should be much easier, including also the most needed extensions.
> We'd be delighted to hear back from you suggestions on how to make the
> upgrade process better, how you would like release notes to be, what
> other extensions we should bundle in the tarball and in general what
> makes you (not) want to install/upgrade MediaWiki.
> Kind regards, Federico / [[User:Nemo_bis]] P.s.: I took this data from
> wikistats' list of wikis, forgive me if there are mistakes.
> 
>