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Semantic MediaWiki 6.0.0

Released on August 12, 2025.

Summary

This release mainly brings support for recent versions of MediaWiki. Upgrading is recommended for anyone using MediaWiki 1.43 or later.

Compatibility

  • Added support for MediaWiki 1.43.2+ and 1.44
  • Dropped support for MediaWiki older than 1.43

For more detailed information, see the compatibility matrix.

Upgrading

No need to run "update.php" or any other migration scripts.

Get the new version via Composer:

  • Step 1: ensure the SMW version in composer.local.json is ^6.0.0
  • Step 2: run composer in your MediaWiki directory: composer update --no-dev --optimize-autoloader

Get the new version via Git:

This is only for those who have installed SMW via Git.

  • Step 1: do a git pull in the SemanticMediaWiki directory
  • Step 2: run composer update --no-dev --optimize-autoloader in the MediaWiki directory

Changes

  • BREAKING CHANGE: Reverted "Support additional formatting options in ask queries"
  • Use MediaWiki file backend for ingest (by Marijn van Wezel)
  • Added footer icon spacing (by Professional Wiki)
  • Fixed compatability issues with MediaWiki 1.43.2+, 1.44 (by Paladox and Professional Wiki)
  • Fixed DB query issues such as RuntimeException: Identifier must not contain quote, dot or null characters (by huaj1ng)
  • Fixed deprecation message when running update.php (by emwiemaikel)
  • Translation update