Deployments

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

• Cadence: MediaWiki follows a weekly deploy cadence known as the Deployment Train, except for backports. For other services, teams decide their own schedule.
• Schedule: Generally use Backport windows instead of scheduling new windows. But, long running tasks and others things covered by Inclusion criteria do require their own windows. When creating windows, schedule more time than you think you need, to account for issues that might slow you down. 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 add or remove your name from the list, or to schedule a new recurring deploy window, send a patchset to mediawiki/tools/release.git's deployments-calendar.yaml file. Add thcipriani as a reviewer.
• If you need help, contact Release Engineering on IRC at #wikimedia-releng ^connect; and ping Tyler (thcipriani).
• Communicating: Deployments of new or major features should 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.
• For information about the current status of the versions deployed to the various wikis, see https://versions.toolforge.org/
• The deployment commands helper can assist with which commands to run, including how to revert your changeː https://deploy-commands.toolforge.org/

Week of May 09

Sunday, May 8

07:00–07:00 UTC #
00:00–00:00 PDT

No deploys all day! See Deployments/Emergencies if things are broken.
Deployer
Changes	No Deploys

Monday, May 9

07:00–08:00 UTC #
00:00–01:00 PDT

UTC morning backport window Your patch may or may not be deployed at the sole discretion of the deployer (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	Amir (Amir1), Adam (awight), Martin (Urbanecm), Taavi (taavi)
Changes	Stang (koi) [config] 790016 (deploy commands) Set wmgTimelineDefaultFont to unifont for yue, wuu and zh_classical Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

13:00–14:00 UTC #
06:00–07:00 PDT

UTC afternoon backport window Your patch may or may not be deployed at the sole discretion of the deployer (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	Roan (RoanKattouw), Lucas (Lucas_WMDE), Martin (Urbanecm)
Changes	ERayfield (WMF) (erayfield) [config] 788777 (deploy commands) Set log level to 'debug' for mediamoderation Stang (koi) [config] 789889 (deploy commands) ptwiki: Revoke 500KB uploading limitation [config] 789974 (deploy commands) rowiki: Fix canonical namespaces Kartik Mistry (kart_) [wmf.10] 789832 (deploy commands) ULS entrypoint: Do not show current language, fix domain redirects [wmf.10] 790328 (deploy commands) CX3 Build 0.2.0+20220509 Kosta Harlan (kostajh) [config] 780874 (deploy commands) Newcomer tasks: deploy AND topic selection to pilot wikis James_F [config] 787829 (deploy commands) Set special footer licence message for MediaWiki.org re. Help: pages – task T301483 Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

15:30–16:00 UTC #
08:30–09:00 PDT

Wikimedia Portals Update
Deployer	Jan Drewniak (jan_drewniak)
Changes	Weekly window for the portals page: https://www.wikipedia.org/

17:00–17:30 UTC #
10:00–10:30 PDT

Wikidata Query Service weekly deploy
Deployer	Ryan (ryankemper)
Changes	...

20:00–21:00 UTC #
13:00–14:00 PDT

UTC late backport window Your patch may or may not be deployed at the sole discretion of the deployer (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	Roan (RoanKattouw), Martin (Urbanecm), Clare (cjming)
Changes	Christoph Jauera (WMDE) (WMDE-Fisch) Done [wmf.10] 790329 (deploy commands) Refresh MediaWiki globals when loading mapdata Erik B (ebernhardson) Done [config] 790408 (deploy commands) cirrus: Forward deprecation warnings from elasticsearch requests to logstash Clare Ming (cjming) Done [wmf.10] 790426 (deploy commands) Adjust table of contents margins at 1000-1200 breakpoint Gergő (tgr) Done [wmf.10] 790336 (deploy commands) CampaignConfig: Avoid array_push() error Done [wmf.10] 790406 (deploy commands) Newcomer tasks: deploy AND topic selection to pilot wikis Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

21:00–23:00 UTC #
14:00–16:00 PDT

Weekly Security deployment window
Deployer	Sam (Reedy), Scott (sbassett), Maryum (Maryum), Manfredi (manfredi)
Changes	Held deployment window for Security-team related deploys.

01:00–02:00 UTC #
(Mon) 18:00–19:00 PDT

Automatic branching of MediaWiki, extensions, skins, and vendor – see Heterogeneous_deployment/Train_deploys
Deployer	N/A
Changes	Branch wmf/

06:00–06:30 UTC #
(Mon) 23:00–23:30 PDT

Primary database switchover
Deployer	Stevie Beth Mhaol (kormat), Manuel Arostegui (marostegui), Amir (Amir1)
Changes	Held deployment window for database primary masters maintenance

Tuesday, May 10

07:00–08:00 UTC #
00:00–01:00 PDT

UTC morning backport window Your patch may or may not be deployed at the sole discretion of the deployer (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	Amir (Amir1), Adam (awight), Martin (Urbanecm), Taavi (taavi)
Changes	Adam W. (awight) Done [config] 786289 (deploy commands) Watch for mapdata cache misses in production Done [config] 787698 (deploy commands) Clean up unnecessary two-level setting Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

13:00–14:00 UTC #
06:00–07:00 PDT

UTC afternoon backport window Your patch may or may not be deployed at the sole discretion of the deployer (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	Roan (RoanKattouw), Lucas (Lucas_WMDE), Martin (Urbanecm)
Changes	Christoph Jauera (WMDE) (WMDE-Fisch) Done [config] 787699 (deploy commands) Enable new template dialog sidebar everywhere except enwiki Done [config] 788347 (deploy commands) Enable versioned maps everywhere Done [config] 787690 (deploy commands) Enable CodeMirror colorblind-friendly palette Gergő (tgr) [config] 775951 (deploy commands) GrowthExperiments: Start mailing list campaign on eswiki Lucas Werkmeister (Lucas_WMDE) Done [config] 790398 (deploy commands) Configure wgLexemeLexicalCategoryItemIds on Beta Wikidata 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)
Deployer	JBond (jbond), Reuven (rzl)
Changes	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to Puppet change

20:00–21:00 UTC #
13:00–14:00 PDT

UTC late backport window Your patch may or may not be deployed at the sole discretion of the deployer (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	Roan (RoanKattouw), Martin (Urbanecm), Clare (cjming)
Changes	Stang (koi) [config] 790403 (deploy commands) Remove upload rights on wikis where local uploads are disabled

Wednesday, May 11

07:00–08:00 UTC #
00:00–01:00 PDT

UTC morning backport window Your patch may or may not be deployed at the sole discretion of the deployer (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	Amir (Amir1), Adam (awight), Martin (Urbanecm), Taavi (taavi)
Changes	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

13:00–14:00 UTC #
06:00–07:00 PDT

UTC afternoon backport window Your patch may or may not be deployed at the sole discretion of the deployer (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	Roan (RoanKattouw), Lucas (Lucas_WMDE), Martin (Urbanecm)
Changes	Adam W. (awight) Done [FlaggedRevs wmf.10] 790436 (deploy commands) Fix incomplete FlaggedRevs::binaryFlagging() implementation 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
Deployer	+ CPT
Changes	See Heterogeneous_deployment/Train_deploys#Breakage

20:00–21:00 UTC #
13:00–14:00 PDT

UTC late backport window Your patch may or may not be deployed at the sole discretion of the deployer (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	Roan (RoanKattouw), Martin (Urbanecm), Clare (cjming)
Changes	David Lynch (kemayo) Done [config] 790395 (deploy commands) Release DiscussionTools new topic tool to former a/b test wikis Clare Ming (cjming) Done [wmf.10] 790443 (deploy commands) Factor out a separate scroll observer for the TOC A/B test, which should be fired separately from the page title observer used by the sticky header and TOC Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

06:00–06:30 UTC #
(Wed) 23:00–23:30 PDT

Primary database switchover
Deployer	Stevie Beth Mhaol (kormat), Manuel Arostegui (marostegui), Amir (Amir1)
Changes	Held deployment window for database primary masters maintenance

Thursday, May 12

07:00–08:00 UTC #
00:00–01:00 PDT

UTC morning backport and config training Your patch may or may not be deployed at the sole discretion of the deployer (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	Amir (Amir1), Ariel (apergos), Taavi (taavi)
Changes	Training to do backport and config deployment. To sign up for deployment training use the Deployment Training Request phabricator milestone Kartik Misty (kart_) Done [config] 791107 (deploy commands) Enable Section Translation in cs, el, he, ko, sw and tr WPs Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

10:00–11:00 UTC #
03:00–04:00 PDT

Services – Citoid / Zotero
Deployer	Marielle (mvolz)
Changes	See Citoid

13:00–14:00 UTC #
06:00–07:00 PDT

UTC afternoon backport window Your patch may or may not be deployed at the sole discretion of the deployer (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	Roan (RoanKattouw), Lucas (Lucas_WMDE), Martin (Urbanecm)
Changes	Gergő (tgr) [wmf.10] 791251 (deploy commands) Send sections_to_exclude in the POST body 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)
Deployer	JBond (jbond), Reuven (rzl)
Changes	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to Puppet change

20:00–21:00 UTC #
13:00–14:00 PDT

UTC late backport and config training Your patch may or may not be deployed at the sole discretion of the deployer (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	Brennen (brennen)
Changes	Training to do backport and config deployment. To sign up for deployment training use the Deployment Training Request phabricator milestone Stang (koi) [config] 785229 (deploy commands) Enable "upload_by_url" feature on zhwiki [config] 791424 (deploy commands) ruwiktionary: Add localized mobile wordmark [config] 791430 (deploy commands) viwiki: Enable "upload_by_url" for sysop Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

Friday, May 13

07:00–07:00 UTC #
00:00–00:00 PDT

No deploys all day! See Deployments/Emergencies if things are broken.
Deployer
Changes	No Deploys

Saturday, May 14

07:00–07:00 UTC #
00:00–00:00 PDT

No deploys all day! See Deployments/Emergencies if things are broken.
Deployer
Changes	No Deploys

Week of May 16

Sunday, May 15

07:00–07:00 UTC #
00:00–00:00 PDT

No deploys all day! See Deployments/Emergencies if things are broken.
Deployer
Changes	No Deploys

Monday, May 16

07:00–08:00 UTC #
00:00–01:00 PDT

UTC morning backport window Your patch may or may not be deployed at the sole discretion of the deployer (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	Amir (Amir1), Martin (Urbanecm)
Changes	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

12:00–13:00 UTC #
05:00–06:00 PDT

New wiki creation
Deployer	Martin (Urbanecm), Amir (Amir1)
Changes	phab:T305279

13:00–14:00 UTC #
06:00–07:00 PDT

UTC afternoon backport window Your patch may or may not be deployed at the sole discretion of the deployer (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	Roan (RoanKattouw), Lucas (Lucas_WMDE), Martin (Urbanecm), Adam (awight)
Changes	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

15:30–16:00 UTC #
08:30–09:00 PDT

Wikimedia Portals Update
Deployer	Jan Drewniak (jan_drewniak)
Changes	Weekly window for the portals page: https://www.wikipedia.org/

17:00–17:30 UTC #
10:00–10:30 PDT

Wikidata Query Service weekly deploy
Deployer	Ryan (ryankemper)
Changes	...

20:00–21:00 UTC #
13:00–14:00 PDT

UTC late backport window Your patch may or may not be deployed at the sole discretion of the deployer (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	Roan (RoanKattouw), Martin (Urbanecm), Clare (cjming)
Changes	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

21:00–23:00 UTC #
14:00–16:00 PDT

Weekly Security deployment window
Deployer	Sam (Reedy), Scott (sbassett), Maryum (Maryum), Manfredi (manfredi)
Changes	Held deployment window for Security-team related deploys.

01:00–02:00 UTC #
(Mon) 18:00–19:00 PDT

Automatic branching of MediaWiki, extensions, skins, and vendor – see Heterogeneous_deployment/Train_deploys
Deployer	N/A
Changes	Branch wmf/1.39.0-wmf.12

06:00–06:30 UTC #
(Mon) 23:00–23:30 PDT

Primary database switchover
Deployer	Stevie Beth Mhaol (kormat), Manuel Arostegui (marostegui), Amir (Amir1)
Changes	Held deployment window for database primary masters maintenance

Tuesday, May 17

07:00–08:00 UTC #
00:00–01:00 PDT

UTC morning backport window Your patch may or may not be deployed at the sole discretion of the deployer (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	Amir (Amir1), Martin (Urbanecm)
Changes	Christoph Jauera (WMDE-Fisch) [config] 791314 (deploy commands) Deploy VE template dialog improvements to enwiki [config] 791315 (deploy commands) Deploy template search improvements to enwiki Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

08:00–10:00 UTC #
01:00–03:00 PDT

MediaWiki train - Utc-0 Version
Deployer	Jaime (jnuche), Antoine (hashar)
Changes	1.39 schedule group0 1.39.0-wmf.10->1.39.0-wmf.12 group1 1.39.0-wmf.10 group2 1.39.0-wmf.10 group0 to 1.39.0-wmf.12 Blockers: task T305218

13:00–14:00 UTC #
06:00–07:00 PDT

UTC afternoon backport window Your patch may or may not be deployed at the sole discretion of the deployer (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	Roan (RoanKattouw), Lucas (Lucas_WMDE), Martin (Urbanecm), Adam (awight)
Changes	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)
Deployer	JBond (jbond), Reuven (rzl)
Changes	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to Puppet change

20:00–21:00 UTC #
13:00–14:00 PDT

UTC late backport window Your patch may or may not be deployed at the sole discretion of the deployer (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	Roan (RoanKattouw), Martin (Urbanecm), Clare (cjming)
Changes	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

Wednesday, May 18

07:00–08:00 UTC #
00:00–01:00 PDT

UTC morning backport window Your patch may or may not be deployed at the sole discretion of the deployer (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	Amir (Amir1), Martin (Urbanecm)
Changes	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

08:00–10:00 UTC #
01:00–03:00 PDT

MediaWiki train - Utc-0 Version
Deployer	Jaime (jnuche), Antoine (hashar)
Changes	1.39 schedule group0 1.39.0-wmf.12 group1 1.39.0-wmf.10->1.39.0-wmf.12 group2 1.39.0-wmf.10 group1 to 1.39.0-wmf.12 Blockers: task T305218

13:00–14:00 UTC #
06:00–07:00 PDT

UTC afternoon backport window Your patch may or may not be deployed at the sole discretion of the deployer (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	Roan (RoanKattouw), Lucas (Lucas_WMDE), Martin (Urbanecm), Adam (awight)
Changes	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
Deployer	Jaime (jnuche), Antoine (hashar) + CPT
Changes	See Heterogeneous_deployment/Train_deploys#Breakage

20:00–21:00 UTC #
13:00–14:00 PDT

UTC late backport window Your patch may or may not be deployed at the sole discretion of the deployer (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	Roan (RoanKattouw), Martin (Urbanecm), Clare (cjming)
Changes	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

06:00–06:30 UTC #
(Wed) 23:00–23:30 PDT

Primary database switchover
Deployer	Stevie Beth Mhaol (kormat), Manuel Arostegui (marostegui), Amir (Amir1)
Changes	Held deployment window for database primary masters maintenance

Thursday, May 19

07:00–08:00 UTC #
00:00–01:00 PDT

UTC morning backport and config training Your patch may or may not be deployed at the sole discretion of the deployer (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	Amir (Amir1), Ariel (apergos)
Changes	Training to do backport and config deployment. To sign up for deployment training use the Deployment Training Request phabricator milestone Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

08:00–10:00 UTC #
01:00–03:00 PDT

MediaWiki train - Utc-0 Version
Deployer	Jaime (jnuche), Antoine (hashar)
Changes	1.39 schedule group0 1.39.0-wmf.12 group1 1.39.0-wmf.12 group2 1.39.0-wmf.10->1.39.0-wmf.12 group2 to 1.39.0-wmf.12 Blockers: task T305218

10:00–11:00 UTC #
03:00–04:00 PDT

Services – Citoid / Zotero
Deployer	Marielle (mvolz)
Changes	See Citoid

13:00–14:00 UTC #
06:00–07:00 PDT

UTC afternoon backport window Your patch may or may not be deployed at the sole discretion of the deployer (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	Roan (RoanKattouw), Lucas (Lucas_WMDE), Martin (Urbanecm), Adam (awight)
Changes	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)
Deployer	JBond (jbond), Reuven (rzl)
Changes	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to Puppet change

20:00–21:00 UTC #
13:00–14:00 PDT

UTC late backport and config training Your patch may or may not be deployed at the sole discretion of the deployer (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	Brennen (brennen)
Changes	Training to do backport and config deployment. To sign up for deployment training use the Deployment Training Request phabricator milestone Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

Friday, May 20

07:00–07:00 UTC #
00:00–00:00 PDT

No deploys all day! See Deployments/Emergencies if things are broken.
Deployer
Changes	No Deploys

Saturday, May 21

07:00–07:00 UTC #
00:00–00:00 PDT

No deploys all day! See Deployments/Emergencies if things are broken.
Deployer
Changes	No Deploys