* the documentation at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Contents
* the mediawiki-l mailing list archive at
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/
+ https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/
* the bug tracker at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/
for information and workarounds to common issues.
Download the files for the new version of the software. These are available
as a compressed "tar" archive from the Wikimedia Download Service
-(http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki).
+(https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/).
You can also obtain the new files directly from our Git source code
repository.
In the "maintenance" directory, run the updateDoubleWidthSearch.php
script. This will update the searchindex table for those pages that
-contain double-byte latin characters.
+contain double-byte Latin characters.
+
+== Upgrading from 1.10 or earlier ==
+
+If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons
+repository, make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise
+due to database schema changes.
== Upgrading from 1.8 or earlier ==
$wgLocalTZoffset was in hours, it is now using minutes.
+If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure
+new database fields are filled with data.
+
== Upgrading from 1.5 or earlier ==
Major changes have been made to the schema from 1.4.x. The updater
'upgrade1_5.php', can do this -- run it prior to 'update.php' or
the web upgrader.
-NOTE that upgrade1_5.php does not work properly with recent version
+NOTE that upgrade1_5.php does not work properly with recent versions
of MediaWiki. If upgrading a 1.4.x wiki, you should upgrade to 1.5
first. upgrade1_5.php has been removed from MediaWiki 1.21.