Deployments

Some notes about the deployment windows

• It is good to ask for a little more time than what you think you'll need to do all of the deployment and testing; you never know what issues will come up and slow you down.
  • Generally, we have found one hour windows 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 happen twice daily (8am and 4pm Pacific) and are for pushing out simple, quick, and low risk changes (as assessed by you, members of the SWAT team, and the Release Manager).

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 project wikis (Wikipedias, Wiktionaries, Wikiversities, 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.

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.

Near-term

Week of July 18th

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By day

Time	Component	Deployer	Changes
Monday, July 18
15:00–16:00 UTC # 08:00–09:00 PDT	Morning SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Brad (anomie), Chad (ostriches), Tyler (thcipriani), Antoine (hashar) or Mukunda (twentyafterfour)	Urbanecm [config] 299111 (deploy commands) Enable Global AbuseFilters on ptwiki Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
17:00–17:30 UTC # 10:00–10:30 PDT	Weekly Wikidata query service deployment window	Guillaume (gehel)	Stas Malyshev (Smalyshev) Deploy new version of Blazegraph, Updater & GUI. Restart the Updater after dpeloyment is done.
20:00–21:00 UTC # 13:00–14:00 PDT	Services – Parsoid / OCG / Citoid / Mobileapps / …	Gabriel (gwicke), C.Scott (cscott), Arlo (arlolra), Subbu (subbu), Bernd (bearND) and Michael (mdholloway)	See mw:Parsoid/Deployments, OCG/Deployments, Mobileapps deployments
21:00–23:00 UTC # 14:00–16:00 PDT	Security (non-urgent) deploys	Darian (dapatrick), Brian (bawolff)	Held deployment window for Security-team related deploys.
23:00–00:00 UTC # 16:00–17:00 PDT	Evening SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Roan (RoanKattouw), Chad (ostriches), Max (MaxSem), or Sébastien (Dereckson)	MaxSem, jgirault Done [wmf.10] 299353 (deploy commands) Kartographer fix James_F Done [wmf.10] 299560 (deploy commands) MediaViewer fix Done [config] 296673 (deploy commands) Change wmgVisualEditorAvailableNamespaces keys to canonical names instead of indexes Done [config] (Clean-up, only if time) 292619 (deploy commands), 292620 (deploy commands), 292621 (deploy commands), 292622 (deploy commands) Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
Tuesday, July 19
15:00–16:00 UTC # 08:00–09:00 PDT	Morning SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Brad (anomie), Chad (ostriches), Tyler (thcipriani), Antoine (hashar), or Mukunda (twentyafterfour)	matt_flaschen [config] 299704 (deploy commands) Remove Echo transition flags bd808 299707 (deploy commands) ContentTranslation: Avoid accessing private $filters field (fatal error) Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
16:00–17:00 UTC # 09:00–10:00 PDT	Puppet SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Filippo (godog), Moritz (moritzm), Giuseppe (_joe_)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change Stas Malyshev (Smalyshev) 298880 (deploy commands) Move WDQS logging configs to /etc
17:00–18:00 UTC # 10:00–11:00 PDT	Services – Graphoid / Parsoid / OCG / Citoid	Yuri (yurik), Gabriel (gwicke), C.Scott (cscott), Arlo (arlolra), Subbu (subbu)	See Graphoid, mw:Parsoid/Deployments, OCG/Deployments
19:00–21:00 UTC # 12:00–14:00 PDT	MediaWiki train	Chad (ostriches)	1.28 schedule group0 1.28.0-wmf.10->1.28.0-wmf.11 group1 1.28.0-wmf.10 group2 1.28.0-wmf.10 group0 to 1.28.0-wmf.11 test wikis and mediawiki.org Blockers: task T139212
22:00–23:00 UTC # 15:00–16:00 PDT	Kartographer deployment	maxsem yurik	Enable Kartographer on a few smaller wiki projects & meta.
23:00–00:00 UTC # 16:00–17:00 PDT	Evening SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Roan (RoanKattouw), Chad (ostriches), Max (MaxSem), or Sébastien (Dereckson)	Sébastien (Dereckson) [config] 296770 (deploy commands) extension registration for TitleBlacklist Test run of l10nupdate (T136258) James_F [config] 296929 (deploy commands) dblists: Switch VisualEditor to a negative rather than positive list [config] 296930 (deploy commands) dblists: Delete no-longer-used visualeditor-default.dblist [config] 296767 (deploy commands) dblists: Get rid of $wmgTitleBlacklistUsernameSources [config] (Clean-up, only if time) 292623 (deploy commands), 292624 (deploy commands) Petr Pchelko (Pchelolo) NOT DONE. 299778 (deploy commands) EventBus: Add rev_by_bot flag to revision_create event. Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
Wednesday, July 20
15:00–16:00 UTC # 08:00–09:00 PDT	Morning SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Brad (anomie), Chad (ostriches), Tyler (thcipriani), Antoine (hashar), or Mukunda (twentyafterfour)	Niklas (Nikerabbit) [config] 299751 (deploy commands) Compact Language Links: To beta in ruwikivoyage mafk [config] 299446 (deploy commands) Configuration changes for he.wikinews: added patroller and autopatroller permissions, assigned users able to add/remove those groups, and minor code cleanup (task T140544). Amir Sarabadani (Amir1) [config] 299992 (deploy commands) Let bureaucrats in fawiki remove sysop user group [config] 299976 (deploy commands) Beta: Test OresEnabledNamespaces on enwiki Addshore [wmf.11] 299973 (deploy commands) RevisionSlider: Fix spelling of RevisionSlider [wmf.11] 299974 (deploy commands) RevisionSlider: Open links in the "tutorial" in the new window Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
19:00–21:00 UTC # 12:00–14:00 PDT	MediaWiki train	Chad (ostriches)	1.28 schedule group0 1.28.0-wmf.11 group1 1.28.0-wmf.10->1.28.0-wmf.11 group2 1.28.0-wmf.10 group1 to 1.28.0-wmf.11 All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, etc) Catalan and Hebrew Wikipedias Blockers: task T139212
20:00–21:00 UTC # 13:00–14:00 PDT	Services – Parsoid / OCG / Citoid / Mobileapps / …	Gabriel (gwicke), C.Scott (cscott), Arlo (arlolra), Subbu (subbu), Bernd (bearND) and Michael (mdholloway)	See mw:Parsoid/Deployments, OCG/Deployments, Mobileapps deployments
23:00–00:00 UTC # 16:00–17:00 PDT	Evening SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Roan (RoanKattouw), Chad (ostriches), Max (MaxSem), or Sébastien (Dereckson)	MaxSem [config] (low prio, only if there's time left) A chain of no-op cleanups starting with 299941 (deploy commands) Amir1 [wmf.11] 300083 (deploy commands) Let ORES extension score for some namespaces instead of all [config] 300086 (deploy commands) ORES score edits in main and Property namespaces in wikidatawiki Pchelolo 300180 (deploy commands) EventBus: Add rev_by_bot flag to revision_create event. Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
Thursday, July 21
00:00–01:00 UTC # (Wed) 17:00–18:00 PDT	Phabricator update	Mukunda (twentyafterfour)	HOLD: Window to update phabricator.wikimedia.org
11:00–14:30 UTC # 04:00–07:30 PDT	network maintenance	Faidon (paravoid)	cr2-eqiad router upgrade
15:00–16:00 UTC # 08:00–09:00 PDT	Morning SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Brad (anomie), Chad (ostriches), Tyler (thcipriani), Antoine (hashar), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), or Katie (aude)	yurik [wmf.11] 300200 (deploy commands) Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
16:00–17:00 UTC # 09:00–10:00 PDT	Puppet SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Filippo (godog), Moritz (moritzm), Giuseppe (_joe_)	Antoine Musso (hashar) Not around at that time of the day, feel free to skip https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/298568/ contint: APPEND unattended upgrade allowed-origins https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/276346/ hiera_lookup: recognize labs project and site Eric Evans (urandom) 300056 (deploy commands) RESTBase Cassandra: Lower compaction throughput to 20MB/s 300059 (deploy commands) Disable `streaming_socket_timeout_in_ms` setting Tyler (thcipriani) 292505 (deploy commands) Logstash_checker script for canary deploys 300175 (deploy commands) Prerequisites for logstash_checker use
17:00–18:00 UTC # 10:00–11:00 PDT	Services – Graphoid / Parsoid / OCG / Citoid	Yuri (yurik), Gabriel (gwicke), C.Scott (cscott), Arlo (arlolra), Subbu (subbu)	See Graphoid, mw:Parsoid/Deployments, OCG/Deployments
19:00–21:00 UTC # 12:00–14:00 PDT	MediaWiki train	Chad (ostriches)	1.28 schedule group0 1.28.0-wmf.11 group1 1.28.0-wmf.11 group2 1.28.0-wmf.10->1.28.0-wmf.11 group2 to 1.28.0-wmf.11 All Wikipedias Blockers: task T139212
23:00–00:00 UTC # 16:00–17:00 PDT	Evening SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Roan (RoanKattouw), Chad (ostriches), Max (MaxSem), Adam (awight), or Sébastien (Dereckson)	Addshore 298933 (deploy commands) [conf] Enable RevisionSlider on dewiki, hrwiki & arwiki Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

Week of July 25th

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By day

Time	Component	Deployer	Changes
Monday, July 25
15:00–16:00 UTC # 08:00–09:00 PDT	Morning SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Brad (anomie), Chad (ostriches), Tyler (thcipriani), Antoine (hashar) or Mukunda (twentyafterfour)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
17:00–17:30 UTC # 10:00–10:30 PDT	Weekly Wikidata query service deployment window	Guillaume (gehel)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
20:00–21:00 UTC # 13:00–14:00 PDT	Services – Parsoid / OCG / Citoid / Mobileapps / …	Gabriel (gwicke), C.Scott (cscott), Arlo (arlolra), Subbu (subbu), Bernd (bearND) and Michael (mdholloway)	See mw:Parsoid/Deployments, OCG/Deployments, Mobileapps deployments
21:00–23:00 UTC # 14:00–16:00 PDT	Security (non-urgent) deploys	Darian (dapatrick), Brian (bawolff)	Held deployment window for Security-team related deploys.
23:00–00:00 UTC # 16:00–17:00 PDT	Evening SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Roan (RoanKattouw), Chad (ostriches), Max (MaxSem), or Sébastien (Dereckson)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
Tuesday, July 26
15:00–16:00 UTC # 08:00–09:00 PDT	Morning SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Brad (anomie), Chad (ostriches), Tyler (thcipriani), Antoine (hashar), or Mukunda (twentyafterfour)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
16:00–17:00 UTC # 09:00–10:00 PDT	Puppet SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Filippo (godog), Moritz (moritzm), Giuseppe (_joe_)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
17:00–18:00 UTC # 10:00–11:00 PDT	Services – Graphoid / Parsoid / OCG / Citoid	Yuri (yurik), Gabriel (gwicke), C.Scott (cscott), Arlo (arlolra), Subbu (subbu)	See Graphoid, mw:Parsoid/Deployments, OCG/Deployments
19:00–21:00 UTC # 12:00–14:00 PDT	MediaWiki train	Tyler (thcipriani)	1.28 schedule group0 1.28.0-wmf.11->1.28.0-wmf.12 group1 1.28.0-wmf.11 group2 1.28.0-wmf.11 group0 to 1.28.0-wmf.12 test wikis and mediawiki.org Blockers: task T139214
23:00–00:00 UTC # 16:00–17:00 PDT	Evening SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Roan (RoanKattouw), Chad (ostriches), Max (MaxSem), or Sébastien (Dereckson)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
Wednesday, July 27
15:00–16:00 UTC # 08:00–09:00 PDT	Morning SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Brad (anomie), Chad (ostriches), Tyler (thcipriani), Antoine (hashar), or Mukunda (twentyafterfour)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
19:00–21:00 UTC # 12:00–14:00 PDT	MediaWiki train	Tyler (thcipriani)	1.28 schedule group0 1.28.0-wmf.12 group1 1.28.0-wmf.11->1.28.0-wmf.12 group2 1.28.0-wmf.11 group1 to 1.28.0-wmf.12 All non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, etc) Catalan and Hebrew Wikipedias Blockers: task T139214
20:00–21:00 UTC # 13:00–14:00 PDT	Services – Parsoid / OCG / Citoid / Mobileapps / …	Gabriel (gwicke), C.Scott (cscott), Arlo (arlolra), Subbu (subbu), Bernd (bearND) and Michael (mdholloway)	See mw:Parsoid/Deployments, OCG/Deployments, Mobileapps deployments
23:00–00:00 UTC # 16:00–17:00 PDT	Evening SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Roan (RoanKattouw), Chad (ostriches), Max (MaxSem), or Sébastien (Dereckson)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
Thursday, July 28
00:00–01:00 UTC # (Wed) 17:00–18:00 PDT	Phabricator update	Mukunda (twentyafterfour)	HOLD: Window to update phabricator.wikimedia.org
15:00–16:00 UTC # 08:00–09:00 PDT	Morning SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Brad (anomie), Chad (ostriches), Tyler (thcipriani), Antoine (hashar), Mukunda (twentyafterfour), or Katie (aude)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
16:00–17:00 UTC # 09:00–10:00 PDT	Puppet SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Filippo (godog), Moritz (moritzm), Giuseppe (_joe_)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
17:00–18:00 UTC # 10:00–11:00 PDT	Services – Graphoid / Parsoid / OCG / Citoid	Yuri (yurik), Gabriel (gwicke), C.Scott (cscott), Arlo (arlolra), Subbu (subbu)	See Graphoid, mw:Parsoid/Deployments, OCG/Deployments
19:00–21:00 UTC # 12:00–14:00 PDT	MediaWiki train	Tyler (thcipriani)	1.28 schedule group0 1.28.0-wmf.12 group1 1.28.0-wmf.12 group2 1.28.0-wmf.11->1.28.0-wmf.12 group2 to 1.28.0-wmf.12 All Wikipedias Blockers: task T139214
23:00–00:00 UTC # 16:00–17:00 PDT	Evening SWAT (Max 8 patches)	Roan (RoanKattouw), Chad (ostriches), Max (MaxSem), Adam (awight), or Sébastien (Dereckson)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

Recently completed

For older deployments, please see the /Archive.