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The main entrypoint is the get function.

First parameter is the release type, which can be one of the following:

stable
legacy
lts
beta
alpha

Second parameter is the format, which can be one of the following:

version
branch
git
date

Note that alpha and beta only work with branch, the behavior of other output formats is undefined.

Examples

{{#invoke:Version|get|alpha|branch}}: 1.43
{{#invoke:Version|get|beta|branch}}: 1.42
{{#invoke:Version|get|stable|version}}: 1.41.1
{{#invoke:Version|get|stable|branch}}: 1.41
{{#invoke:Version|get|stable|git}}: REL1_41
{{#invoke:Version|get|stable|date}}: 2024-03-28
{{#invoke:Version|get|lts|version}}: 1.39.7
{{#invoke:Version|get|legacy|version}}: 1.40.3
{{#invoke:Version|get|legacylts|version}}: 1.39.7

That said, you probably want to use one of the wrapper templates in Category:MediaWiki version information templates instead of calling this module directly.^{[[[<translate nowrap> w:Wikipedia:Please clarify</translate>|<span title="<translate nowrap> The reason for this is unclear.</translate>"><translate> why?</translate>]]]}