24 June 2011

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SimpleSecurity 5.0 released

An issue with our SimpleSecurity extension (bug 29525) cropped up with the newly released MediaWiki version 1.17. The problem is due to changes in the load-balancer that are incompatible with the DatabaseHook used in SimpleSecurity.

To remedy the issue, major changes have been made to SimpleSecurity.php and SimpleSecurity_body.php which makes SimpleSecurity 5.x incompatible with versions of MediaWiki before 1.17. I have moved 4.x into the OD extensions repo so that users of these older versions of MediaWiki can still use it.

For more detailed information about the problem and the new SimpleSecruity 5.0 solution, see our local Extension:SimpleSecurity article.