Deployments

Deployments
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This page tracks upcoming deployments of software to the Wikimedia Foundation servers.

Cadence:

MediaWiki core follows a one-week deploy cadence (except for urgent fixes). For other services, teams decide their own schedule.

Schedule:

Most changes do not need new deploy windows. Instead, use the Backport windows which happen several times per day most days.

• Performing a long running task (over 1 hour) must have its own window. See also Inclusion criteria

• When creating windows, schedule more time than you think you need, to account for issues that might slow you down. Generally, one hour is best for most things.
• Times are pinned to San Francisco, and thus the UTC time changes in March and November due to the DST.

To schedule a new recurring deploy window, or if you need help, contact Release Engineering on IRC at #wikimedia-releng ^connect; and ping Greg (greg-g) or Tyler (thcipriani).

Communicating:

Deployments of new or major features should first be announced on the Wikimedia blog, Tech News, and/or global MassMessage to relevant communities.

Changes that are likely to affect cache behaviour, add new cookies, or utilize new database tables, should be announced on the ops mailing list first.

Something went wrong? See Incident response. Is there a user-impacting problem? Communicate in the #wikimedia-operations ^connect IRC channel. If there is a Phabricator task, ensure #Wikimedia-Incident is tagged, and consider setting the Unbreak Now priority.

Week of August 17

Time	Component	Deployer	Changes
Sunday, August 16
07:00–07:00 UTC # 00:00–00:00 PDT	No deploys all day! See Deployments/Emergencies if things are broken.		No Deploys
Monday, August 17
10:30–11:00 UTC # 03:30–04:00 PDT	Wikimedia Portals Update	Jan Drewniak (jan_drewniak)	Weekly window for the portals page: https://www.wikipedia.org/
11:00–12:00 UTC # 04:00–05:00 PDT	European mid-day backport window (Max 6 patches)	Amir (Amir1), Lucas (Lucas_WMDE), Adam (awight), Martin (Urbanecm)	cormacparle [config] 616530 (deploy commands) Prepare MediaSearch A/B test on commons Evrifaessa [config] 620507 (deploy commands) Add Turkish powered by MW and Wikimedia project icons [config] 620509 (deploy commands) Add Turkish powered by MW and Wikimedia project icons for Turkish Wikiquote, Turkish Wiktionary, Turkish Wikisource and Turkish Wikibooks [config] 620510 (deploy commands) Change the logo of Izh Wikipedia [config] 620513 (deploy commands) Add Wiktionary wordmark for eswiktionary [config] 620643 (deploy commands) Set Portal and Portal_talk namespaces in bjnwiki as an extra namespace. Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
13:00–14:00 UTC # 06:00–07:00 PDT	Create new wikis	Martin (Urbanecm), Amir (Amir1)	task T259432, task T259002
17:00–17:30 UTC # 10:00–10:30 PDT	Wikidata Query Service weekly deploy	Guillaume (gehel), Mathew (onimisionipe)	...
18:00–19:00 UTC # 11:00–12:00 PDT	Morning backport window (Max 6 patches)	Roan (RoanKattouw), Niharika (Niharika), Martin (Urbanecm)	kaldari [config] 619880 (deploy commands) Removing obsolete license definition Martin (Urbanecm) [config] 620743 (deploy commands) Add logo files for lldwiki [config] 620744 (deploy commands) Change logo for lldwiki to match the requested one Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
20:00–21:00 UTC # 13:00–14:00 PDT	Services – Graphoid / ORES	Aaron (halfak), Andy (accraze)	See Graphoid
21:00–23:00 UTC # 14:00–16:00 PDT	Weekly Security deployment window	Sam (Reedy), Scott (sbassett)	Held deployment window for Security-team related deploys.
23:00–00:00 UTC # 16:00–17:00 PDT	Evening backport window (Max 6 patches)	Roan (RoanKattouw), Niharika (Niharika), Martin (Urbanecm)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
Tuesday, August 18
05:00–05:30 UTC # (Mon) 22:00–22:30 PDT	m3 (phabricator) database master failover	marostegui, twentyafterfour	T259589
11:00–12:00 UTC # 04:00–05:00 PDT	European mid-day backport window (Max 6 patches)	Amir (Amir1), Lucas (Lucas_WMDE), Adam (awight), Martin (Urbanecm)	Lucas Werkmeister (Lucas_WMDE) [config] 595543 (deploy commands) Enable Data Bridge on Catalan Wikipedia Evrifaessa [config] 620888 (deploy commands) Add Wikisource wordmark for trwikisource Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
16:00–17:00 UTC # 09:00–10:00 PDT	Puppet request window (Max 6 patches)	Filippo (godog), Giuseppe (_joe_)	Martin (Urbanecm) 619446 (deploy commands) Exclude thankyou wiki for mobile redirect Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to Puppet change
17:00–18:00 UTC # 10:00–11:00 PDT	Services – Graphoid / ORES	Aaron (halfak), Andy (accraze)	See Graphoid
18:00–19:00 UTC # 11:00–12:00 PDT	Pre MediaWiki train sanity break		No Deploys
19:00–21:00 UTC # 12:00–14:00 PDT	Mediawiki train - American Version	Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Dan (marxarelli)	1.36 schedule group0 1.36.0-wmf.4->1.36.0-wmf.5 group1 1.36.0-wmf.4 group2 1.36.0-wmf.4 group0 to 1.36.0-wmf.5 Blockers: task T257973
23:00–00:00 UTC # 16:00–17:00 PDT	Evening backport window (Max 6 patches)	Roan (RoanKattouw), Niharika (Niharika), Martin (Urbanecm)	RoanKattouw [config] 620810 (deploy commands) Enable static mapframe on testwiki, disable it on test2wiki [wmf.4] [wmf.5] 620967 (deploy commands) 620968 (deploy commands) Performance fix for GrowthExperiments homepage Urbanecm [config] 620001 (deploy commands) Enable subpages in NS:0 in techconductwiki Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
Wednesday, August 19
11:00–12:00 UTC # 04:00–05:00 PDT	European mid-day backport window (Max 6 patches)	Amir (Amir1), Lucas (Lucas_WMDE), Adam (awight), Martin (Urbanecm)	DannyS712 (DannyS712) Done 621227 (deploy commands) Fix typos in flaggedrevs comments Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
18:00–19:00 UTC # 11:00–12:00 PDT	Train log triage with CPT	Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Dan (marxarelli) + CPT	See Heterogeneous_deployment/Train_deploys#Breakage
18:00–19:00 UTC # 11:00–12:00 PDT	Morning backport window (Max 6 patches)	Roan (RoanKattouw), Niharika (Niharika), Martin (Urbanecm)	Jdlrobson 621298 (deploy commands) [config] Enable $wgMFNoindexPages for all wikis 621300 (deploy commands) [config] Update project wordmarks 621306 (deploy commands) [config] Configure namespaces on commons to include categories 621328 (deploy commands) [config] Update taglines [NEW] Ashot1997 [config] 621296 (deploy commands) Don't index Draft (118) and Draft talk (119) on hywiki Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
19:00–21:00 UTC # 12:00–14:00 PDT	Mediawiki train - American Version	Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Dan (marxarelli)	1.36 schedule group0 1.36.0-wmf.5 group1 1.36.0-wmf.4->1.36.0-wmf.5 group2 1.36.0-wmf.4 group1 to 1.36.0-wmf.5 Blockers: task T257973
20:00–21:00 UTC # 13:00–14:00 PDT	Services – Graphoid / ORES	Aaron (halfak), Andy (accraze)	See Graphoid
23:00–00:00 UTC # 16:00–17:00 PDT	Evening backport window (Max 6 patches)	Roan (RoanKattouw), Niharika (Niharika), Martin (Urbanecm)	Ashot1997 [config] 621346 (deploy commands) Enable VisualEditor in namespaces Draft and Wikiproject on Armenian Wikipedia Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
Thursday, August 20
00:00–01:00 UTC # (Wed) 17:00–18:00 PDT	Phabricator update	Mukunda (twentyafterfour)	HOLD: Window to update phabricator.wikimedia.org
10:00–11:00 UTC # 03:00–04:00 PDT	Services – Citoid / Zotero	Marielle (mvolz)	See Citoid
11:00–12:00 UTC # 04:00–05:00 PDT	European mid-day backport window (Max 6 patches)	Amir (Amir1), Lucas (Lucas_WMDE), Adam (awight), Martin (Urbanecm)	Matthias (matthiasmullie) [config] 620694 (deploy commands) Fix testwikidata depicts property id [config] 621099 (deploy commands) Correct CirrusSearchUserTesting configuration Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
16:00–17:00 UTC # 09:00–10:00 PDT	Puppet request window (Max 6 patches)	Filippo (godog), Giuseppe (_joe_)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to Puppet change
17:00–18:00 UTC # 10:00–11:00 PDT	Services – Graphoid / ORES	Aaron (halfak), Andy (accraze)	See Graphoid
18:00–19:00 UTC # 11:00–12:00 PDT	Morning backport window (Max 6 patches)	Roan (RoanKattouw), Niharika (Niharika), Martin (Urbanecm)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
19:00–21:00 UTC # 12:00–14:00 PDT	Mediawiki train - American Version	Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Dan (marxarelli)	1.36 schedule group0 1.36.0-wmf.5 group1 1.36.0-wmf.5 group2 1.36.0-wmf.4->1.36.0-wmf.5 group2 to 1.36.0-wmf.5 Blockers: task T257973
23:00–00:00 UTC # 16:00–17:00 PDT	Evening backport window (Max 6 patches)	Roan (RoanKattouw), Niharika (Niharika), Martin (Urbanecm)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
Friday, August 21
07:00–07:00 UTC # 00:00–00:00 PDT	No deploys all day! See Deployments/Emergencies if things are broken.		No Deploys
Saturday, August 22
07:00–07:00 UTC # 00:00–00:00 PDT	No deploys all day! See Deployments/Emergencies if things are broken.		No Deploys