MediaWiki 1.18/Installation reports

Please record your experience of upgrading or installing 1.18RC1 below:

• AlexanderMen.com — ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 03:49, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
  • upgrading from 1.15.x
  • update.php from cli went smoothly.
  • Custom GuMax skin upgraded from 3.3 (October 31, 2007) to 4.0.1 (January 17, 2011)
    • s/.this->skin->tooltipAndAccesskey/Linker::tooltipAndAccesskeyAttribs/
    • other misc Resource Loaderfication

• http://www.omegawiki.org/Special:Version
  • upgraded from 1.18alpha (r100589) I know it is a small upgrade, but I was told to report it nevertheless...
  • As always, no problem.
  • --Kipmaster 13:33, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

• private wiki --Olivier Beaton 20:07, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
  • upgrading from 1.17.0 w/ ~20ish extensions from the 1.17 trunk or on-wiki code
  • upgrading to 1.18.0 release tarball
  • PHP 5.3.3
  • update.php completed smoothly
  • Extensions needing upgrades:
    • Extension:BreadCrumbs2 Fatal Error in 1.18, needed manual updating.
    • Extension:InputBox undefined MediaWiki::getVal(), upgraded to latest.

• http://www.wikiqueer.org --Varnent 21:09, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
  • upgrading from 1.17.0 with 40ish extensions mostly in trunk - 4-5 in release branch
  • upgraded to 1.18.0 final svn
  • PHP 5.2.17 (cgi-fcgi)
  • MySQL 5.1.39-log
  • initial testing done on test site (http://lambda.wikiqueer.org) with RC1 - extension compatibility determined then
  • update.php completed smoothly
  • 4-5 extensions in release branch needed switching to 1.18 release branch
    • Extension:Cite
    • Extension:InputBox
    • Extension:FlaggedRevs
  • 1-2 extensions needed to be replaced with similar extensions - mostly extensions related to outputting to sidebar
    • Extension:Dynamic Article List replaced with Extension:DynamicPageList (Wikimedia)
    • Extension:SocialSideBar replaced with Extension:AddThis
  • 1 extensions not working - no replacement or solution found yet
    • Extension:TweetANew - fatal error when called (saving a new article)
  • all instances of collapse related css classes needed to be updated with mw- prefix