Deployments

Upcoming major(ish) software deployments and operations changes. For past deployments, see Software deployments/2011 archive. For an exhaustive list of past site changes, see Server admin log. For our long-term roadmap, see mw:Roadmap. Please provide UTC times for all deployments (PDT times optional). This page is hosted on wikitech because it needs to be accessible during site outages.

• Scheduling: If you see a potential conflict with your upcoming deployment, please mail out to ops-l@lists.wikimedia.org to discuss.
• Communicating: Every major or new feature deployment should be announced on the Wikimedia blog; you can ask Guillaume (gpaumier@wikimedia.org) for support. For routine and maintenance deployments, listing them here is enough.

• Reminder - daylight savings time has begun for most timezones in the US (PST -> PDT)! When recording both UTC and PDT times, remember that PDT is GMT -7

Ongoing

• Monday, 18:00-20:00 UTC (11am-1pm PDT): MediaWiki general deployment window
• Monday, 22:00-23:00 UTC (3pm-4pm PDT): Updated MobileFrontend code (see mw:Extension:MobileFrontend/Deployments) [Patrick, Arthur]
• Tuesday, 16:30-17:30 UTC (10am-11am PDT): Internationalization bug fixes/updates [Niklas / Antoine for git assistance]
• Wednesday 18:00-20:00 UTC (11am-1pm PDT): MediaWiki general deployment window
• Thursday 17:00-19:00 UTC (10am-noon PDT): ArticleFeedbackv5 updates [Roan]

Week of April 30

• Friday, May 4, 17:00-18:00 UTC (10am-11am PDT): Gerrit 2.3 upgrade, may affect code review (test instance: http://gerrit-dev.wmflabs.org )
• on-going server reboot for those Apache servers running Lucid kernel 2.6.32 (and lower) and over 200 days of uptime
• on-going S2 database refresh

Week of May 7

• Monday, May 7, 18:00-20:00 UTC (11am-1pm PDT): MediaWiki 1.20wmf2 deployment - Deploy to English Wikipedia
• Monday, May 7, 21:00-22:00 UTC (2pm-3pm PDT): PageTriage enwiki experimental deploy [Ian/Roan]
• Monday, May 7, 22:00-23:00 UTC (3pm-4pm PDT): Updated MobileFrontend code (see mw:Extension:MobileFrontend/Deployments) [Patrick, Arthur]
• Tuesday, May 8, 16:30-17:30 UTC (10am-11am PDT): Internationalization bug fixes/updates [Niklas / Antoine for git assistance / Roan]
• Wednesday, May 9, 18:00-20:00 UTC (11am-1pm PDT): MediaWiki 1.20wmf2 deployment - Deploy to other Wikipedias
• Thursday, May 10, 17:00-19:00 UTC (10am-noon PDT): ArticleFeedbackv5 updates [Roan]
• upgrade/patch various systems with latest Lucid upgrade
• setting up external IPs to various servers
• limited Precise testing
• deploy additional SWIFT monitoring

Near-term to be scheduled

• [May] Switch over sibling projects & wmf wiki to .m
• Further upgrades of Brocade switch@ Evoswitch [Leslie/Mark B] - 3rd week of May
• Upgrading cr2-pmtpa to 10.4r9 - this will cause a brief outage in its connectivity [Leslie]

Holidays / Other events

U.S. holidays which WMF observes and some of the developers may adhere to:

• New Year's Day (January 1)
• Martin Luther King Day (third Monday in January)
• President's Day (third Monday in February)
• Europe goes to summer time (last Sunday in March)
• Australia switches off summer time (first Sunday in April)
• Memorial Day (last Monday in May)
• Independence Day (July 4)
• Labor Day (first Monday in September)
• Columbus Day (second Monday in October)
• Europe off of summer time (last Sunday in October)
• US off of daylight savings (first Sunday in November)
• Veteran's Day (November 11)
• Thanksgiving Day (fourth Thursday in November)
• Day after Thanksgiving (fourth Friday in November)
• Christmas Day (December 25)

Recently completed

For deployments more than one week ago, please see Software deployments/2012 archive

• Monday, February 27 - master DB switch for s1, s5, s6 (Asher) - done
• Monday, February 27 (-28), 23:00-03:00 UTC (3pm-7pm PST): MediaWiki 1.19 stage 4 deployment [nlwiki, plwiki] - done
• Wednesday, February 29 (-March 1), 23:00-03:00 UTC (3pm-7pm PST): MediaWiki 1.19 stage 5 deployment all Wikipedia - done
• Thursday, March 1: Add 2 new servers to bits.wikimedia.org @ eqiad for capacity growth and redundancy - done
• Thursday, March 8: MobileFrontend updates (see mw:Extension:MobileFrontend/Deployments)
• Week of March 5 - spinning up new SWIFT thumbnail boxes @ Tampa
• Monday, March 5 - putting Swift thumbnail storage back into production
• Tuesday, march 6 2012 - Labs GlusterFS deployment
• Wednesday, March 7, 18:00-19:00 UTC (10am-11am PST): ArticleFeedbackv5 update
• Thursday, March 8 : test serving traffic thru EQIAD upload.wikimedia.org
• Tuesday, March 13: MobileFrontend updates (see mw:Extension:MobileFrontend/Deployments#13_March.2C_2012)
• Week of March 19: ramp up serving traffic thru EQIAD upload.wikimedia.org [Mark B] [POSTPONED]
• Week of March 19: spinning up search node boxes @ EQIAD [Peter/Asher]
• Monday, March 19, 22:00-23:00 UTC (3:00pm-4:00pm PDT): Updated MobileFrontend code [Patrick, Arthur]
• Week of March 19: enwiki schema upgrade for SHA-1 hashes [Asher]
• Tuesday, March 20, 21:00-23:00 UTC (2:00pm-4:00pm PDT): Update MobileFrontend code [Patrick, Arthur]
• Monday 10.00am - 11:00am PST - Enabling Peering port @ EQIAD [Leslie]
• run parallel tests on EQIAD search ( with TAMPA cluster) [JeffG/Peter/Asher]
• Wednesday, March 28: AFTv5 data collection patch [Roan]
• Ongoing: Enhance Varnish and restart serving traffic thru EQIAD upload.wikimedia.org [Mark B]
• Ongoing: Partial production rollout Search cluster @ EQIAD (probably Week of April 2) [mark/peter] [Done]
• Ongoing: Wednesday, 17:00-19:00 UTC (10am-12pm PDT): AFTv5 release ("New Feedback form with Abuse/Spam Filters" + some improvements to oversight and metrics stuff.) [Roan]
• Tuesday, April 10, 18:00-20:00 UTC (11am-1pm PDT): MediaWiki 1.20wmf01 deployment - test2 and mediawiki.org
• Thursday April 12, 4-5 PDT : Deploy WP:Zero changes
• Thursday, April 12, 10-noon PDT: AFT5 changes
• Ongoing dev/test: Enhance Varnish and restart serving traffic thru EQIAD upload.wikimedia.org [Mark B]
• Production rollout of new Search cluster @ EQIAD (Time: tbd, April 10) [Mark/Peter/Jeff]
• Daily, EN Database schema changes (to prep for SHA1 implementation - expected to end Tuesday, 4/10/12 [Asher]
• Monday, April 16 22:00-23:00 UTC (3pm-4pm PDT): Updated MobileFrontend code (see mw:Extension:MobileFrontend/Deployments) [Patrick, Arthur]
• Monday, April 16, 18:00-20:00 UTC (11am-1pm PDT): MediaWiki 1.20wmf01 deployment - Deploy to commons
• Wednesday, April 18, 18:00-20:00 UTC (11am-1pm PDT): MediaWiki 1.20wmf01 deployment - Deploy to all non-Wikipedia sites (Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity)
• Ongoing dev/test: Enhance Varnish and restart serving traffic thru EQIAD upload.wikimedia.org [Mark B]
• Tuesday, April 17 17:00-18:00 UTC (10am - 11am PDT): MobileFrontend bugfix deployment [Arthur]
• Wednesday, April 18, 19:00-22:00 (12noon - 3pm PDT) - Deploy IPV6 on XO circuit@EQIAD
• Monday, April 23, 18:00-20:00 UTC (11am-1pm PDT): MediaWiki 1.20wmf01 deployment - Deploy to English Wikipedia
• Wednesday, April 25, 18:00-20:00 UTC (11am-1pm PDT): MediaWiki 1.20wmf01 deployment - Deploy to other Wikipedias + misc. remaining wikis
• Monday, 22:00-23:00 UTC (3pm-4pm PDT): Updated MobileFrontend code (see mw:Extension:MobileFrontend/Deployments) [Patrick, Arthur]
• Tuesday, 16:30-17:30 UTC (10am-11am PDT): Internationalization bug fixes/updates [Niklas / Antoine for git assistance]
• Tuesday, 22:00-23:00 UTC (3pm-4pm PDT): Configuration change for Swift on commons [Aaron, Ben]
• Thursday 17:00-19:00 UTC (10am-noon PDT): ArticleFeedbackv5 updates [Roan]
• Monday or Tuesday: Deploy Oxygen as UDP logging host@EQIAD (2nd attempt)
• Monday, April 30, 18:00-20:00 UTC (11am-1pm PDT): MediaWiki 1.20wmf2 to mediawiki.org and test2
• Monday, April 30, 22:00-23:00 UTC (3pm-4pm PDT): Updated MobileFrontend code (see mw:Extension:MobileFrontend/Deployments) [Patrick, Arthur]
• Tuesday, May 1, 16:30-17:30 UTC (10am-11am PDT): Internationalization bug fixes/updates [Niklas / Antoine for git assistance]
• Wednesday, May 2, 18:00-20:00 UTC (11am-1pm PDT): MediaWiki 1.20wmf2 to non-Wikipedia wikis
• Wednesday, May 2, 22:00-23:30 UTC (3pm-4:30pm PDT): PageTriage initial deployment (early prototype of List View via private url, see labs prototype) [Roan/Ian] [partial, rescheduled]
• Thursday, May 3, 21:00-21:30 UTC (2pm-2:30pm PDT): Switch ES writes to new cluster23 tables [Asher] [done]
• Thursday, May 3, 21.00 onwards : script to move /usr/local/apache to /a partition on all non-imagescaler, non-jobrunner apaches [done]
• Thursday, May 3, 22:00-23:30 UTC (3pm-4:30pm PDT): ArticleFeedbackv5 updates (tentatively moved here due to Monthly Metrics) [Roan] [bumped for PageTriage]
• Friday, may 4, ongoing - upgrade squid servers@tpa to latest lucid
• Enable EnotifWatchlist on all wikis, 1 h window with ops to check load (bugzilla:28026, RT:1784) [Scheduling: Reedy] -- ?

Long-term deployments

These are the extensions that are under active development by WMF, but whose deployment is not imminent