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, 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 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 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 November 02

Time	Component	Deployer	Changes
Sunday, November 01
07:00–07:00 UTC # 00:00–00:00 PDT	No deploys all day! See Deployments/Emergencies if things are broken.		No Deploys
Monday, November 02
11:30–12:00 UTC # 03:30–04:00 PST	Wikimedia Portals Update	Jan Drewniak (jan_drewniak)	Weekly window for the portals page: https://www.wikipedia.org/
12:00–13:00 UTC # 04:00–05:00 PST	European mid-day backport window (Max 6 patches)	Amir (Amir1), Lucas (Lucas_WMDE), Adam (awight), Martin (Urbanecm)	Matthias (matthiasmullie) [config] 637778 (deploy commands) [WikibaseMediaInfo] Fix array depth for properties array Antoine Musso (hashar) [config] 636083 (deploy commands) [ExtensionDistributor] Remove $wgExtDistListFile, unused - T266024 Nikerabbit [config] 638020 (deploy commands) Stop reading wmgULSCompactLinksForNewAccounts and wmgULSCompactLinksEnableAnon [config] 634224 (deploy commands) Stop defining wmgULSCompactLinksForNewAccounts and wmgULSCompactLinksEnableAnon Itamar Givon (ItamarWMDE) [wmf.14] 637801 (deploy commands) Revert JS parser commits 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	Ryan (ryankemper)	...
19:00–20:00 UTC # 11:00–12:00 PST	Morning backport window (Max 6 patches)	Roan (RoanKattouw), Niharika (Niharika), Martin (Urbanecm)	DannyS712 (DannyS712) [SECURITY] Deploy phab:T205908#6596019 Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
21:00–22:00 UTC # 13:00–14:00 PST	Services – Graphoid / ORES	Chris (chrisalbon), Andy (accraze)	See Graphoid
22:00–00:00 UTC # 14:00–16:00 PST	Weekly Security deployment window	Sam (Reedy), Scott (sbassett)	Held deployment window for Security-team related deploys.
Tuesday, November 03
00:00–01:00 UTC # (Mon) 16:00–17:00 PST	Evening backport window (Max 6 patches)	Roan (RoanKattouw), Niharika (Niharika), Martin (Urbanecm)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
08:00–08:00 UTC # 00:00–00:00 PST	No deploys all day! See Deployments/Emergencies if things are broken.		No Deploys. WMF Holiday.
Wednesday, November 04
12:00–13:00 UTC # 04:00–05:00 PST	European mid-day backport window (Max 6 patches)	Amir (Amir1), Lucas (Lucas_WMDE), Adam (awight), Martin (Urbanecm)	Itamar Givon (ItamarWMDE) [wmf.16] 639035 (deploy commands) Revert JS parser commits Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
19:00–20:00 UTC # 11:00–12:00 PST	Train log triage with CPT	Brennen (brennen), Ahmon (dancy) + CPT	See Heterogeneous_deployment/Train_deploys#Breakage
19:00–20:00 UTC # 11:00–12:00 PST	Morning backport window (Max 6 patches)	Roan (RoanKattouw), Niharika (Niharika), Martin (Urbanecm)	Martin (Urbanecm) [config] 639095 (deploy commands) Enable wgCheckUserLogLogins at all wikis but loginwiki Jdlrobson [config] 639203 (deploy commands) Disable the search in header A/B test dpifke [config] 639205 (deploy commands) Enable wgImagePreconnect on remaining wikis Bartosz (MatmaRex) [config] 638201 (deploy commands) Enable DiscussionTools as a beta feature on almost all Wikipedias ("phase 3") mforns [config] 639264 (deploy commands) Migrate EventLogging NewcomerTask to EventGate on testwiki Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
20:00–22:00 UTC # 12:00–14:00 PST	Mediawiki train - American Version	Brennen (brennen), Ahmon (dancy)	1.36 schedule group0 1.36.0-wmf.14->1.36.0-wmf.16 group1 1.36.0-wmf.14 group2 1.36.0-wmf.14 group0 to 1.36.0-wmf.16 Blockers: task T263182
21:00–22:00 UTC # 13:00–14:00 PST	Services – Graphoid / ORES	Chris (chrisalbon), Andy (accraze)	See Graphoid
Thursday, November 05
00:00–01:00 UTC # (Wed) 16:00–17:00 PST	Evening backport window (Max 6 patches)	Roan (RoanKattouw), Niharika (Niharika), Martin (Urbanecm)	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
11:00–12:00 UTC # 03:00–04:00 PST	Services – Citoid / Zotero	Marielle (mvolz)	See Citoid
12:00–13:00 UTC # 04:00–05:00 PST	European mid-day backport window (Max 6 patches)	Amir (Amir1), Lucas (Lucas_WMDE), Adam (awight), Martin (Urbanecm)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
17:00–18:00 UTC # 09:00–10:00 PST	Puppet request window (Max 6 patches)	JBond (jbond42), Chris (cdanis)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to Puppet change
18:00–19:00 UTC # 10:00–11:00 PST	Services – Graphoid / ORES	Chris (chrisalbon), Andy (accraze)	See Graphoid
19:00–20:00 UTC # 11:00–12:00 PST	Morning backport window (Max 6 patches)	Roan (RoanKattouw), Niharika (Niharika), Martin (Urbanecm)	Bartosz (MatmaRex) [config] 639606 (deploy commands) Fix DiscussionTools wikis config for thwiki/tgwiki Gergő (tgr) [wmf.16] 639501 (deploy commands) Suggested edits: Export task count from start editing dialog Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
20:00–22:00 UTC # 12:00–14:00 PST	Mediawiki train - American Version	Brennen (brennen), Ahmon (dancy)	1.36 schedule group0 1.36.0-wmf.16 group1 1.36.0-wmf.14->1.36.0-wmf.16 group2 1.36.0-wmf.14 group1 to 1.36.0-wmf.16 Blockers: task T263182
Friday, November 06
00:00–01:00 UTC # (Thu) 16:00–17:00 PST	Evening backport window (Max 6 patches)	Roan (RoanKattouw), Niharika (Niharika), Martin (Urbanecm)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
08:00–08:00 UTC # 00:00–00:00 PST	No deploys all day! See Deployments/Emergencies if things are broken.		No Deploys
Saturday, November 07
08:00–08:00 UTC # 00:00–00:00 PST	No deploys all day! See Deployments/Emergencies if things are broken.		No Deploys

Week of November 09

Time	Component	Deployer	Changes
Sunday, November 08
08:00–08:00 UTC # 00:00–00:00 PST	No deploys all day! See Deployments/Emergencies if things are broken.		No Deploys
Monday, November 09
11:30–12:00 UTC # 03:30–04:00 PST	Wikimedia Portals Update	Jan Drewniak (jan_drewniak)	Weekly window for the portals page: https://www.wikipedia.org/
12:00–13:00 UTC # 04:00–05:00 PST	European mid-day backport window (Max 6 patches)	Amir (Amir1), Lucas (Lucas_WMDE), Adam (awight), Martin (Urbanecm)	Bartosz (MatmaRex) 640088 (deploy commands) Enable DiscussionTools as a beta feature on fiwiki 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	Ryan (ryankemper)	...
19:00–20:00 UTC # 11:00–12:00 PST	Morning backport window (Max 6 patches)	Roan (RoanKattouw), Niharika (Niharika), Martin (Urbanecm)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
21:00–22:00 UTC # 13:00–14:00 PST	Services – Graphoid / ORES	Chris (chrisalbon), Andy (accraze)	See Graphoid
22:00–00:00 UTC # 14:00–16:00 PST	Weekly Security deployment window	Sam (Reedy), Scott (sbassett)	Held deployment window for Security-team related deploys.
Tuesday, November 10
00:00–01:00 UTC # (Mon) 16:00–17:00 PST	Evening backport window (Max 6 patches)	Roan (RoanKattouw), Niharika (Niharika), Martin (Urbanecm)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
12:00–13:00 UTC # 04:00–05:00 PST	European mid-day backport window (Max 6 patches)	Amir (Amir1), Lucas (Lucas_WMDE), Adam (awight), Martin (Urbanecm)	Lucas Werkmeister (Lucas_WMDE) [wmf.16] 639035 (deploy commands) Revert JS parser commits (already merged but not yet deployed) Effie Mouzeli (effie) config: 636094 (deploy commands) Add "mcrouter-with-onhost-tier" entry to $wgObjectCaches config: 636095 (deploy commands) Switch parser cache to using "mcrouter-with-onhost-tier" Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
17:00–18:00 UTC # 09:00–10:00 PST	Puppet request window (Max 6 patches)	JBond (jbond42), Chris (cdanis)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to Puppet change
18:00–19:00 UTC # 10:00–11:00 PST	Services – Graphoid / ORES	Chris (chrisalbon), Andy (accraze)	See Graphoid
19:00–20:00 UTC # 11:00–12:00 PST	Morning backport window (Max 6 patches)	Roan (RoanKattouw), Niharika (Niharika), Martin (Urbanecm)	C. Scott (cscott) 640477 (deploy commands) Fix $wgTranslateNumerals=false on arwiki 640249 (deploy commands) Quiet down some log spam about formatNum Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
21:00–23:00 UTC # 13:00–15:00 PST	scap sync-world debugging	Brennen (brennen), Ahmon (dancy)	Brennen Bearnes (brennen) No-op debugging session for phab:T223287
Wednesday, November 11
00:00–01:00 UTC # (Tue) 16:00–17:00 PST	Evening backport window (Max 6 patches)	Roan (RoanKattouw), Niharika (Niharika), Martin (Urbanecm)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
12:00–13:00 UTC # 04:00–05:00 PST	European mid-day backport window (Max 6 patches)	Amir (Amir1), Lucas (Lucas_WMDE), Adam (awight), Martin (Urbanecm)	Bartosz (MatmaRex) [wmf.16] 640497 (deploy commands) [DiscussionTools] Fix getHeadlineNodeAndOffset() returning text nodes Lucas Werkmeister (Lucas_WMDE) [config] 636453 (deploy commands) Enable propagatePageDeletion on Wikidata [config] 640676 (deploy commands) Remove propagateChangeVisibility repo setting Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
19:00–20:00 UTC # 11:00–12:00 PST	Train log triage with CPT	+ CPT	See Heterogeneous_deployment/Train_deploys#Breakage
19:00–20:00 UTC # 11:00–12:00 PST	Morning backport window (Max 6 patches)	Roan (RoanKattouw), Niharika (Niharika), Martin (Urbanecm)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
21:00–22:00 UTC # 13:00–14:00 PST	Services – Graphoid / ORES	Chris (chrisalbon), Andy (accraze)	See Graphoid
Thursday, November 12
00:00–01:00 UTC # (Wed) 16:00–17:00 PST	Evening backport window (Max 6 patches)	Roan (RoanKattouw), Niharika (Niharika), Martin (Urbanecm)	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
11:00–12:00 UTC # 03:00–04:00 PST	Services – Citoid / Zotero	Marielle (mvolz)	See Citoid
12:00–13:00 UTC # 04:00–05:00 PST	European mid-day backport window (Max 6 patches)	Amir (Amir1), Lucas (Lucas_WMDE), Adam (awight), Martin (Urbanecm)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
17:00–18:00 UTC # 09:00–10:00 PST	Puppet request window (Max 6 patches)	JBond (jbond42), Chris (cdanis)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to Puppet change
18:00–19:00 UTC # 10:00–11:00 PST	Services – Graphoid / ORES	Chris (chrisalbon), Andy (accraze)	See Graphoid
19:00–20:00 UTC # 11:00–12:00 PST	Morning backport window (Max 6 patches)	Roan (RoanKattouw), Niharika (Niharika), Martin (Urbanecm)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
Friday, November 13
00:00–01:00 UTC # (Thu) 16:00–17:00 PST	Evening backport window (Max 6 patches)	Roan (RoanKattouw), Niharika (Niharika), Martin (Urbanecm)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
08:00–08:00 UTC # 00:00–00:00 PST	No deploys all day! See Deployments/Emergencies if things are broken.		No Deploys
Saturday, November 14
08:00–08:00 UTC # 00:00–00:00 PST	No deploys all day! See Deployments/Emergencies if things are broken.		No Deploys

Week of November 16

Time	Component	Deployer	Changes
Sunday, November 15
08:00–08:00 UTC # 00:00–00:00 PST	No deploys all day! See Deployments/Emergencies if things are broken.		No Deploys
Monday, November 16
08:00–08:00 UTC # 00:00–00:00 PST	No deploys all day! See Deployments/Emergencies if things are broken.		No Deploys task T264991
Tuesday, November 17
12:00–13:00 UTC # 04:00–05:00 PST	European mid-day backport window (Max 6 patches)	Amir (Amir1), Lucas (Lucas_WMDE), Adam (awight), Martin (Urbanecm)	Lucas Werkmeister (Lucas_WMDE) [config] 631431 (deploy commands) Remove migration settings in Wikibase.php [config] 631496 (deploy commands) Remove migration settings in InitialiseSettings.php Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
17:00–18:00 UTC # 09:00–10:00 PST	Puppet request window (Max 6 patches)	JBond (jbond42), Chris (cdanis)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to Puppet change
18:00–19:00 UTC # 10:00–11:00 PST	Services – Graphoid / ORES	Chris (chrisalbon), Andy (accraze)	See Graphoid
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 - American+European Version	Ahmon (dancy), Antoine (hashar)	1.36 schedule group0 1.36.0-wmf.16->1.36.0-wmf.18 group1 1.36.0-wmf.16 group2 1.36.0-wmf.16 group0 to 1.36.0-wmf.18 Blockers: task T263184
Wednesday, November 18
00:00–01:00 UTC # (Tue) 16:00–17:00 PST	Evening backport window (Max 6 patches)	Roan (RoanKattouw), Niharika (Niharika), Martin (Urbanecm)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
12:00–13:00 UTC # 04:00–05:00 PST	European mid-day backport window (Max 6 patches)	Amir (Amir1), Lucas (Lucas_WMDE), Adam (awight), Martin (Urbanecm)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
14:00–16:00 UTC # 06:00–08:00 PST	Mediawiki train - American+European Version (secondary timeslot)	Ahmon (dancy), Antoine (hashar)	1.36 schedule group0 1.36.0-wmf.18 group1 1.36.0-wmf.16->1.36.0-wmf.18 group2 1.36.0-wmf.16 group1 to 1.36.0-wmf.18 Blockers: task T263184
19:00–20:00 UTC # 11:00–12:00 PST	Train log triage with CPT	Ahmon (dancy), Antoine (hashar) + CPT	See Heterogeneous_deployment/Train_deploys#Breakage
19:00–20:00 UTC # 11:00–12:00 PST	Morning backport window (Max 6 patches)	Roan (RoanKattouw), Niharika (Niharika), Martin (Urbanecm)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
20:00–22:00 UTC # 12:00–14:00 PST	Mediawiki train - American+European Version	Ahmon (dancy), Antoine (hashar)	1.36 schedule group0 1.36.0-wmf.18 group1 1.36.0-wmf.16->1.36.0-wmf.18 group2 1.36.0-wmf.16 group1 to 1.36.0-wmf.18 Blockers: task T263184
21:00–22:00 UTC # 13:00–14:00 PST	Services – Graphoid / ORES	Chris (chrisalbon), Andy (accraze)	See Graphoid
Thursday, November 19
00:00–01:00 UTC # (Wed) 16:00–17:00 PST	Evening backport window (Max 6 patches)	Roan (RoanKattouw), Niharika (Niharika), Martin (Urbanecm)	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
11:00–12:00 UTC # 03:00–04:00 PST	Services – Citoid / Zotero	Marielle (mvolz)	See Citoid
12:00–13:00 UTC # 04:00–05:00 PST	European mid-day backport window (Max 6 patches)	Amir (Amir1), Lucas (Lucas_WMDE), Adam (awight), Martin (Urbanecm)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
14:00–16:00 UTC # 06:00–08:00 PST	Mediawiki train - American+European Version (secondary timeslot)	Ahmon (dancy), Antoine (hashar)	1.36 schedule group0 1.36.0-wmf.18 group1 1.36.0-wmf.18 group2 1.36.0-wmf.16->1.36.0-wmf.18 group2 to 1.36.0-wmf.18 Blockers: task T263184
17:00–18:00 UTC # 09:00–10:00 PST	Puppet request window (Max 6 patches)	JBond (jbond42), Chris (cdanis)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to Puppet change
18:00–19:00 UTC # 10:00–11:00 PST	Services – Graphoid / ORES	Chris (chrisalbon), Andy (accraze)	See Graphoid
19:00–20:00 UTC # 11:00–12:00 PST	Morning backport window (Max 6 patches)	Roan (RoanKattouw), Niharika (Niharika), Martin (Urbanecm)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
20:00–22:00 UTC # 12:00–14:00 PST	Mediawiki train - American+European Version	Ahmon (dancy), Antoine (hashar)	1.36 schedule group0 1.36.0-wmf.18 group1 1.36.0-wmf.18 group2 1.36.0-wmf.16->1.36.0-wmf.18 group2 to 1.36.0-wmf.18 Blockers: task T263184
Friday, November 20
00:00–01:00 UTC # (Thu) 16:00–17:00 PST	Evening backport window (Max 6 patches)	Roan (RoanKattouw), Niharika (Niharika), Martin (Urbanecm)	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change
08:00–08:00 UTC # 00:00–00:00 PST	No deploys all day! See Deployments/Emergencies if things are broken.		No Deploys
Saturday, November 21
08:00–08:00 UTC # 00:00–00:00 PST	No deploys all day! See Deployments/Emergencies if things are broken.		No Deploys

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