Deployments

Notes:

• Ask for a little more time than what you think you'll need for deployment and testing; you never know what issues may come up and slow you down.
  • Generally, we have found one hour to be a good size for most things.
• Deployment windows are 'pinned' to the time in San Francisco and thus the UTC time will change due to the United States observance of Daylight Savings Time as appropriate.
• SWAT deploys are for pushing out simple and low-risk changes (as assessed by you, SWAT team, and the Release Manager). They happen at:
  • 06:00, 11:00 and 16:00 Pacific on Mondays and Thursdays
  • 06:00 and 16:00 Pacific on Tuesdays
  • 06:00, 10:00 and 16:00 Pacific on Wednesdays

For detailed instructions on how to actually deploy code to the Wikimedia servers, see How to deploy code.

This page tracks planned deployments of software to the Wikimedia Foundation servers that host the various Wikimedia projects (Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiversity, Wikimedia Commons, etc.).

Cadence

The Wikimedia Foundation currently follows a one-week deploy cadence. This means that there is one week between updates to any one Wikimedia project site wiki (excluding urgent fixes, of course).

Scheduling

To schedule a deploy window, or if you see a potential conflict with your upcoming deployment, please e-mail Greg Grossmeier.

Inclusion criteria

See the list at Inclusion criteria for the kinds of changes that require scheduling here.

Long running tasks/scripts

While not strictly a deployment, performing long running (>1 hour) tasks (eg: migration scripts) can encounter issues when code is updated while a script is being run. For this reason it is required to add an entry in the calendar for the task with a window that accounts for the anticipated start time and estimated length for the task.

Communicating

• Every major or new feature deployment should be announced on the Wikimedia blog and/or Tech News (use the "user-notice" tag on Phabricator) and/or global on-wiki delivery. For routine and maintenance deployments, listing your change here is enough.
• Changes that are liable to affect site performance or infrastructure should be announced on the ops mailing list. This includes anything that alters caching behavior, introduces cookies, substantially increases the static asset payload, or adds new and complicated query patterns.

Something went wrong‽ (see also Incident response)

• Is there a user-impacting or other severe issue?
  • Communicate this in the #wikimedia-operations ^connect IRC channel.
  • Add the #wikimedia-incident project to any relevant Phabricator task; if appropriate set to UBN! priority.
• What happens next?
  • In case of halting or reverting the weekly train

Near-term

NOTE: You can subscribe to the "WMF Deployments" google calendar by adding <wikimedia.org_rudis09ii2mm5fk4hgdjeh1u64@group.calendar.google.com>. This does not always get one-off windows that are noted below. This wiki page is the canonical deployment schedule and any differences with the google calendar are to be interpreted as the calendar being wrong.

Week of February 26th

• Week of:
  • Compact Language Links deployment out of Beta on English Wikipedia (T187677)

By day

Time	Component	Deployer	Changes
Monday, February 26
11:00–11:30 UTC # 03:00–03:30 PST	Wikimedia Portals Update	Jan Drewniak (jan_drewniak)	Weekly window for the portals page: https://www.wikipedia.org/
14:00–15:00 UTC # 06:00–07:00 PST	European Mid-day SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	Jon Harald Søby (Jhs) [config] 407901 (deploy commands) Add namespaces to urwiktionary Kartik Mistry (kart_) [wmf.22] 414608 (deploy commands) Use a replica dedicated to slow queries (if available) [wmf.22] 414609 (deploy commands) Added option to continue script from particular User ID Lucas Werkmeister (Lucas_WMDE) [config] 413724 (deploy commands) Enable caching of constraint check results on Wikidata Amir Sarabadani (Amir1) [config] 414650 (deploy commands) Add patrol rights/groups to fawikisource [config] 414654 (deploy commands) Enable statement usage tracking in several wikis [config] 414667 (deploy commands) Enable reading full entity id from wb_terms table in three wikis Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
18:00–18:30 UTC # 10:00–10:30 PST	Wikidata Query Service weekly deploy	Guillaume (gehel)	Deploy new Updater, new GUI and new whitelist.txt
19:00–20:00 UTC # 11:00–12:00 PST	Morning SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	James_F [config] 413651 (deploy commands) 2017 wikitext editor: Simplify config part 1 Zoranzoki21 [config] 414401 (deploy commands) Add mushroomobserver.org to wgCopyUploadsDomains Urbanecm [config] 414704 (deploy commands) New throttle rule Lucas Werkmeister (Lucas_WMDE) [wmf.22] 414714 (deploy commands) Change status parameter default to cacheable value Adam Wight (awight) [config] 414729 (deploy commands) Initial deployment of Extension:JADE to beta cluster Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
21:00–22:00 UTC # 13:00–14:00 PST	Services – Parsoid / Citoid / Mobileapps / ORES / …	C.Scott (cscott), Arlo (arlolra), Subbu (subbu), Bernd (bearND), Aaron (halfak), Amir (Amir1)	See mw:Parsoid/Deployments, Mobileapps deployments
22:00–00:00 UTC # 14:00–16:00 PST	Weekly Security deployment window	Brian (bawolff), Sam (Reedy)	Held deployment window for Security-team related deploys.
Tuesday, February 27
00:00–01:00 UTC # (Mon) 16:00–17:00 PST	Evening SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	RoanKattouw [config] 395818 (deploy commands) Enable ORES on simplewiki [config] 414859 (deploy commands) Enable ORES on svwiki Subbu Sastry (subbu) [config] 414700 (deploy commands) Enable RemexHtml on all wikinews wikis [config] 414701 (deploy commands) Enable RemexHtml on all private wikis [config] 414702 (deploy commands) Enable RemexHtml on a few miscellaneous wikis MaxSem [config][beta only] 413879 (deploy commands) enable mentions in edit summaries Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
14:00–15:00 UTC # 06:00–07:00 PST	European Mid-day SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	Urbanecm [config] 413345 (deploy commands) New throttle rule for cswiki [config] 413461 (deploy commands) New throttle rule [config] 414755 (deploy commands) New throttle rule [config] 414993 (deploy commands) Fix: Add missed line in wgLogo gilles [config] 414965 (deploy commands) Set up separate Thumbor Swift user for private containers - skipped, problem with CI MarcoAurelio (Hauskatze) [wmf.22] 414972 (deploy commands) Backport fix to wmf.22 so we can unblock a stuck global rename (task T188171). - declined, wait for train - rescheduled, it's swat-able per James F. Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
17:00–18:00 UTC # 09:00–10:00 PST	Puppet SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Filippo (godog), Moritz (moritzm), Giuseppe (_joe_)	Chad (no_justification), Timo (Krinkle) 414876 (deploy commands) Enabling reusable TC cache for HHVM on mwdebug* servers Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
18:00–19:00 UTC # 10:00–11:00 PST	Services – Graphoid / Parsoid / Citoid / ORES	C.Scott (cscott), Arlo (arlolra), Subbu (subbu), Aaron (halfak), Amir (Amir1)	See Graphoid, mw:Parsoid/Deployments
19:00–20:00 UTC # 11:00–12:00 PST	Pre MediaWiki train sanity break		No deploys
20:00–22:00 UTC # 12:00–14:00 PST	MediaWiki train	Tyler (thcipriani)	1.31 schedule group0 1.31.0-wmf.22->1.31.0-wmf.23 group1 1.31.0-wmf.22 group2 1.31.0-wmf.22 group0 to 1.30.1-wmf.23 test wikis and mediawiki.org Blockers: task T183962
Wednesday, February 28
00:00–01:00 UTC # (Tue) 16:00–17:00 PST	Evening SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	MarcoAurelio (Hauskatze) [wmf.22] 414972 (deploy commands) LocalRenameUserJob: escape backreferences in replacement title (task T188171) Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
03:00–13:00 UTC # (Tue) 19:00–05:00 PST	Run preference migration script for Compact Language Links deployment out of Beta in English Wikipedia (T187677).	Kartik Mistry (kart_)	Run: mwscript extensions/UniversalLanguageSelector/maintenance/ULSCompactLinksDisablePref.php --wiki=enwiki --really Log and confirm the output.
14:00–15:00 UTC # 06:00–07:00 PST	European Mid-day SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	Kartik Mistry (kart_) 412696 (deploy commands) Deploy Compact Language Links out of Beta on English Wikipedia André Costa (lokal-profil) [config] 404942 (deploy commands) Drop the medlem user group and editallpages user right Piotr Miazga (raynor) [config] 414751 (deploy commands) Enable HTML Page previews on all wikis [config] 414769 (deploy commands) enable VirtualPagePreviews events on beta cluster Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
18:00–19:00 UTC # 10:00–11:00 PST	Morning SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	Amir Sarabadani (Amir1) [config] 415078 (deploy commands) Enable Wikibase RC injection for ruwiki [config] 415080 (deploy commands) Enable reading from full term entity id everywhere Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
19:00–20:00 UTC # 11:00–12:00 PST	Pre MediaWiki train sanity break		No deploys
20:00–22:00 UTC # 12:00–14:00 PST	MediaWiki train	Tyler (thcipriani)	1.31 schedule group0 1.31.0-wmf.23 group1 1.31.0-wmf.22->1.31.0-wmf.23 group2 1.31.0-wmf.22 group1 to 1.31.0-wmf.23 All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, etc) Catalan and Hebrew Wikipedias Blockers: task T183962
21:00–22:00 UTC # 13:00–14:00 PST	Services – Parsoid / Citoid / Mobileapps / ORES / …	C.Scott (cscott), Arlo (arlolra), Subbu (subbu), Bernd (bearND), Aaron (halfak), Amir (Amir1)	See mw:Parsoid/Deployments, Mobileapps deployments
Thursday, March 01
00:00–01:00 UTC # (Wed) 16:00–17:00 PST	Evening SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	RoanKattouw 414886 (deploy commands) Enable ORES filters on eswiki 414889 (deploy commands) Enable ORES filters on eswikibooks Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
01:00–02:00 UTC # (Wed) 17:00–18:00 PST	Phabricator update	Mukunda (twentyafterfour)	HOLD: Window to update phabricator.wikimedia.org
14:00–15:00 UTC # 06:00–07:00 PST	European Mid-day SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
17:00–18:00 UTC # 09:00–10:00 PST	Puppet SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Filippo (godog), Moritz (moritzm), Giuseppe (_joe_)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
18:00–19:00 UTC # 10:00–11:00 PST	Services – Graphoid / Parsoid / Citoid / ORES	C.Scott (cscott), Arlo (arlolra), Subbu (subbu), Aaron (halfak), Amir (Amir1)	See Graphoid, mw:Parsoid/Deployments
19:00–20:00 UTC # 11:00–12:00 PST	Morning SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
20:00–22:00 UTC # 12:00–14:00 PST	MediaWiki train	Tyler (thcipriani)	1.31 schedule group0 1.31.0-wmf.23 group1 1.31.0-wmf.23 group2 1.31.0-wmf.22->1.31.0-wmf.23 group2 to 1.31.0-wmf.23 All Wikipedias Blockers: task T183962
Friday, March 02
00:00–01:00 UTC # (Thu) 16:00–17:00 PST	Evening SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

Week of March 5th

• Week of:
  • nothing yet...

By day

Time	Component	Deployer	Changes
Monday, March 05
11:00–11:30 UTC # 03:00–03:30 PST	Wikimedia Portals Update	Jan Drewniak (jan_drewniak)	Weekly window for the portals page: https://www.wikipedia.org/
14:00–15:00 UTC # 06:00–07:00 PST	European Mid-day SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	James_F [config] 413652 (deploy commands) 2017 wikitext editor: Simplify config part 2 Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
18:00–18:30 UTC # 10:00–10:30 PST	Wikidata Query Service weekly deploy	Guillaume (gehel)
19:00–20:00 UTC # 11:00–12:00 PST	Morning SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
21:00–22:00 UTC # 13:00–14:00 PST	Services – Parsoid / Citoid / Mobileapps / ORES / …	C.Scott (cscott), Arlo (arlolra), Subbu (subbu), Bernd (bearND), Aaron (halfak), Amir (Amir1)	See mw:Parsoid/Deployments, Mobileapps deployments
22:00–00:00 UTC # 14:00–16:00 PST	Weekly Security deployment window	Brian (bawolff), Sam (Reedy)	Held deployment window for Security-team related deploys.
Tuesday, March 06
00:00–01:00 UTC # (Mon) 16:00–17:00 PST	Evening SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
14:00–15:00 UTC # 06:00–07:00 PST	European Mid-day SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
17:00–18:00 UTC # 09:00–10:00 PST	Puppet SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Filippo (godog), Moritz (moritzm), Giuseppe (_joe_)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
18:00–19:00 UTC # 10:00–11:00 PST	Services – Graphoid / Parsoid / Citoid / ORES	C.Scott (cscott), Arlo (arlolra), Subbu (subbu), Aaron (halfak), Amir (Amir1)	See Graphoid, mw:Parsoid/Deployments
19:00–20:00 UTC # 11:00–12:00 PST	Pre MediaWiki train sanity break		No deploys
20:00–22:00 UTC # 12:00–14:00 PST	MediaWiki train	Tyler (thcipriani)	1.31 schedule group0 1.31.0-wmf.22->1.31.0-wmf.23 group1 1.31.0-wmf.22 group2 1.31.0-wmf.22 group0 to 1.30.1-wmf.23 test wikis and mediawiki.org Blockers: task T183963
Wednesday, March 07
00:00–01:00 UTC # (Tue) 16:00–17:00 PST	Evening SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
14:00–15:00 UTC # 06:00–07:00 PST	European Mid-day SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
18:00–19:00 UTC # 10:00–11:00 PST	Morning SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
19:00–20:00 UTC # 11:00–12:00 PST	Pre MediaWiki train sanity break		No deploys
20:00–22:00 UTC # 12:00–14:00 PST	MediaWiki train	Tyler (thcipriani)	1.31 schedule group0 1.31.0-wmf.23 group1 1.31.0-wmf.22->1.31.0-wmf.23 group2 1.31.0-wmf.22 group1 to 1.31.0-wmf.23 All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, etc) Catalan and Hebrew Wikipedias Blockers: task T183963
21:00–22:00 UTC # 13:00–14:00 PST	Services – Parsoid / Citoid / Mobileapps / ORES / …	C.Scott (cscott), Arlo (arlolra), Subbu (subbu), Bernd (bearND), Aaron (halfak), Amir (Amir1)	See mw:Parsoid/Deployments, Mobileapps deployments
Thursday, March 08
00:00–01:00 UTC # (Wed) 16:00–17:00 PST	Evening SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
01:00–02:00 UTC # (Wed) 17:00–18:00 PST	Phabricator update	Mukunda (twentyafterfour)	HOLD: Window to update phabricator.wikimedia.org
14:00–15:00 UTC # 06:00–07:00 PST	European Mid-day SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
17:00–18:00 UTC # 09:00–10:00 PST	Puppet SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Filippo (godog), Moritz (moritzm), Giuseppe (_joe_)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
18:00–19:00 UTC # 10:00–11:00 PST	Services – Graphoid / Parsoid / Citoid / ORES	C.Scott (cscott), Arlo (arlolra), Subbu (subbu), Aaron (halfak), Amir (Amir1)	See Graphoid, mw:Parsoid/Deployments
19:00–20:00 UTC # 11:00–12:00 PST	Morning SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
20:00–22:00 UTC # 12:00–14:00 PST	MediaWiki train	Tyler (thcipriani)	1.31 schedule group0 1.31.0-wmf.23 group1 1.31.0-wmf.23 group2 1.31.0-wmf.22->1.31.0-wmf.23 group2 to 1.31.0-wmf.23 All Wikipedias Blockers: task T183963
Friday, March 09
00:00–01:00 UTC # (Thu) 16:00–17:00 PST	Evening SWAT (Max 8 patches)	addshore, Antoine (hashar), Brad (anomie), Katie (aude), Max (MaxSem), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), Roan (RoanKattouw), Sébastien (Dereckson), Tyler (thcipriani), Niharika (Niharika), or Željko (zeljkof)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

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