Re: [Wikitech-l] Upgrading to 1.23

2014-06-18 Thread krinklem...@gmail.com
On 13 Jun 2014, at 01:28, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: [..] companies put wikis on an intranet is that sysadmins don't trust large PHP applications (with good reason). Plus, when you're running a particularly old version of MediaWiki, many of the newer security vulnerabilities are

[Wikitech-l] Upgrading to 1.23

2014-06-12 Thread Beebe, Mary J
We have several internal wikis that we maintain. We write extensions to these wikis. We are trying to convince management to upgrade our mediaWiki version to 1.23.x. At the same time we will upgrade our PHP version from 5.2.8 to 5.4.x. We have kept our PHP version to 5.2 because of the old

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upgrading to 1.23

2014-06-12 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Thanks for the question. I tried to summarise in one line the single most compelling reason to upgrade to each recent MediaWiki release at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading#Why_upgrade.3F. More detailed selling points are in the wiki pages about each release and in bugzilla.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upgrading to 1.23

2014-06-12 Thread Chris Steipp
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Beebe, Mary J bee...@battelle.org wrote: 4. General security vulnerabilities. - I would love to have any specifics here. You can start with

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upgrading to 1.23

2014-06-12 Thread MZMcBride
Chris Steipp wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Beebe, Mary J bee...@battelle.org wrote: 4. General security vulnerabilities. - I would love to have any specifics here. You can start with https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?f1=productf2=productf3=creati