MediaWiki version 1.16 is already looking to be a massive release. Since the 1.15 branch, we’ve seen Michael Dale’s upload branch merged, my maintenance overhaul branch merged, a new skin, dozens of bugs fixed and enhancements added, thousands of translations updated…have I missed anything? I probably have. MediaWiki was branched in from r48811 (plus a bunch of backported fixes). We’re currently on r55194 as I write this. I don’t think you have to be a developer to realize that 6383 commits (in less than 5 months!) between versions leads to a lot of changes.
Need I mention we haven’t even branched 1.16 yet? Who knows what else might make it into the 1.16 release? Any particular bugs you’d like to see fixed soon?
PS: I plan to whip up some screenshots from the new-installer branch soon :)
[Edit: Werdna reminded me about his Preferences rewrite. So a total of 3 branches merged]