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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 -0you 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's deployments-calendar.json file. Add thcipriani as a reviewer.
• 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.
• 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 December 06

Sunday, December 5

08:00–08:00 UTC #
00:00–00:00 PST

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

Monday, December 6

12:00–13:00 UTC #
04:00–05:00 PST

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), Lucas (Lucas_WMDE), Adam (awight), Martin (Urbanecm)
Changes	Kartik Mistry (kart_) [config] 743158 (deploy commands) Enable SectionTranslation in Malayalam, Malay, Azerbaijani, Tamil, Bashkir and Albanian WPs 4nn1l2 (nn1l2) [config] 742833 (deploy commands) hewiki: add "templateeditor" permission group Juan90264 (Juan_90264) [config] 743528 (deploy commands) Enable groups autopatrolled and patroller for bnwikivoyage [config] 743529 (deploy commands) Enable SandboxLink extension for bnwikivoyage [config] 743533 (deploy commands) Enable Autopatroller level page protection for English Wiktionary Martin (Urbanecm) [config] 734383 (deploy commands) Set default two-letter NS_PROJECT aliases Please leave this at the very end of the window, this will take some time Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

16:30–17:00 UTC #
08:30–09:00 PST

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

18:00–18:30 UTC #
10:00–10:30 PST

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

19:00–20:00 UTC #
11:00–12:00 PST

UTC evening 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)
Changes	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change 4nn1l2 (nn1l2) [config] 742835 (deploy commands) bnwikibooks: add autopatrolled and patroller user groups

21:00–22:00 UTC #
13:00–14:00 PST

Services – Graphoid / ORES
Deployer	Chris (chrisalbon), Andy (accraze)
Changes	See Graphoid

22:00–00:00 UTC #
14:00–16:00 PST

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

00:00–01:00 UTC #
(Mon) 16:00–17:00 PST

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)
Changes	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

03:00–04:00 UTC #
(Mon) 19:00–20:00 PST

Automatic branching of MediaWiki, extensions, skins, and vendor – see Heterogeneous_deployment/Train_deploys
Deployer	N/A
Changes	Branch wmf/1.38.0-wmf.12

Tuesday, December 7

12:00–13:00 UTC #
04:00–05:00 PST

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), Lucas (Lucas_WMDE), Adam (awight), Martin (Urbanecm)
Changes	Bartosz (MatmaRex) 744043 (deploy commands) Enable reply tool by default on mediawikiwiki 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)
Deployer	JBond (jbond), Reuven (rzl)
Changes	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to Puppet change

18:00–19:00 UTC #
10:00–11:00 PST

Services – Graphoid / ORES
Deployer	Chris (chrisalbon), Andy (accraze)
Changes	See Graphoid

19:00–20:00 UTC #
11:00–12:00 PST

Pre MediaWiki train break
Deployer
Changes	No Deploys

20:00–22:00 UTC #
12:00–14:00 PST

MediaWiki train - Utc-7 Version
Deployer	Ahmon (dancy), Brennen (brennen)
Changes	1.38 schedule group0 1.38.0-wmf.11->1.38.0-wmf.12 group1 1.38.0-wmf.11 group2 1.38.0-wmf.11 group0 to 1.38.0-wmf.12 Blockers: task T293953

00:00–01:00 UTC #
(Tue) 16:00–17:00 PST

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)
Changes	Erik B (ebernhardson) [config] 744857 (deploy commands) Move cirrus traffic back to eqiad Mew O (mewoph) [wmf.12] 744896 (deploy commands) Add an image: Only validate caption if the recommendation is accepted Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

Wednesday, December 8

12:00–13:00 UTC #
04:00–05:00 PST

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), Lucas (Lucas_WMDE), Adam (awight), Martin (Urbanecm)
Changes	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
Deployer	Ahmon (dancy), Brennen (brennen) + CPT
Changes	See Heterogeneous_deployment/Train_deploys#Breakage

19:00–20:00 UTC #
11:00–12:00 PST

UTC evening 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)
Changes	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

20:00–22:00 UTC #
12:00–14:00 PST

MediaWiki train - Utc-7 Version
Deployer	Ahmon (dancy), Brennen (brennen)
Changes	1.38 schedule group0 1.38.0-wmf.12 group1 1.38.0-wmf.11->1.38.0-wmf.12 group2 1.38.0-wmf.11 group1 to 1.38.0-wmf.12 Blockers: task T293953

21:00–22:00 UTC #
13:00–14:00 PST

Services – Graphoid / ORES
Deployer	Chris (chrisalbon), Andy (accraze)
Changes	See Graphoid

01:00–02:00 UTC #
(Wed) 17:00–18:00 PST

Phabricator update
Deployer	Mukunda (twentyafterfour)
Changes	HOLD: Window to update phabricator.wikimedia.org

Thursday, December 9

11:00–12:00 UTC #
03:00–04:00 PST

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

12:00–13:00 UTC #
04:00–05:00 PST

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), Lucas (Lucas_WMDE), 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

16:30–17:30 UTC #
08:30–09:30 PST

Swift config update
Deployer	Matthew (Emperor), Kunal (legoktm)
Changes	https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T296767

17:00–18:00 UTC #
09:00–10:00 PST

Puppet request window (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	JBond (jbond), Reuven (rzl)
Changes	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to Puppet change

17:30–18:30 UTC #
09:30–10:30 PST

Deploy OpenSearch
Deployer	Cole (cwhite)
Changes	Serve logstash UI (OpenSearch) from codfw. Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/puppet/+/745284

18:00–19:00 UTC #
10:00–11:00 PST

Services – Graphoid / ORES
Deployer	Chris (chrisalbon), Andy (accraze)
Changes	See Graphoid

19:00–20:00 UTC #
11:00–12:00 PST

UTC evening 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)
Changes	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

20:00–22:00 UTC #
12:00–14:00 PST

MediaWiki train - Utc-7 Version
Deployer	Ahmon (dancy), Brennen (brennen)
Changes	1.38 schedule group0 1.38.0-wmf.12 group1 1.38.0-wmf.12 group2 1.38.0-wmf.11->1.38.0-wmf.12 group2 to 1.38.0-wmf.12 Blockers: task T293953

00:00–01:00 UTC #
(Thu) 16:00–17:00 PST

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, December 10

08:00–08:00 UTC #
00:00–00:00 PST

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

Saturday, December 11

08:00–08:00 UTC #
00:00–00:00 PST

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

Week of December 13

Sunday, December 12

08:00–08:00 UTC #
00:00–00:00 PST

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

Monday, December 13

12:00–13:00 UTC #
04:00–05:00 PST

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), Lucas (Lucas_WMDE), Adam (awight), Martin (Urbanecm)
Changes	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

16:30–17:00 UTC #
08:30–09:00 PST

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

18:00–18:30 UTC #
10:00–10:30 PST

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

19:00–20:00 UTC #
11:00–12:00 PST

UTC evening 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)
Changes	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change Jsn.sherman (JSherman) [config] 742996 (deploy commands) Enable TheWikipediaLibrary extension on most wikis

21:00–22:00 UTC #
13:00–14:00 PST

Services – Graphoid / ORES
Deployer	Chris (chrisalbon), Andy (accraze)
Changes	See Graphoid

22:00–00:00 UTC #
14:00–16:00 PST

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

00:00–01:00 UTC #
(Mon) 16:00–17:00 PST

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)
Changes	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

03:00–04:00 UTC #
(Mon) 19:00–20:00 PST

Automatic branching of MediaWiki, extensions, skins, and vendor – see Heterogeneous_deployment/Train_deploys
Deployer	N/A
Changes	Branch wmf/1.38.0-wmf.13

Tuesday, December 14

12:00–13:00 UTC #
04:00–05:00 PST

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), Lucas (Lucas_WMDE), Adam (awight), Martin (Urbanecm)
Changes	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

13:00–14:00 UTC #
05:00–06:00 PST

Pre MediaWiki train break
Deployer
Changes	No Deploys

14:00–16:00 UTC #
06:00–08:00 PST

MediaWiki train - Utc-0+Utc-7 Version
Deployer	Antoine (hashar), Ahmon (dancy)
Changes	1.38 schedule group0 1.38.0-wmf.12->1.38.0-wmf.13 group1 1.38.0-wmf.12 group2 1.38.0-wmf.12 group0 to 1.38.0-wmf.13 Blockers: task T293954

17:00–18:00 UTC #
09:00–10:00 PST

Puppet request window (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	JBond (jbond), Reuven (rzl)
Changes	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to Puppet change

18:00–19:00 UTC #
10:00–11:00 PST

Services – Graphoid / ORES
Deployer	Chris (chrisalbon), Andy (accraze)
Changes	See Graphoid

19:00–20:00 UTC #
11:00–12:00 PST

UTC evening 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)
Changes	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

20:00–22:00 UTC #
12:00–14:00 PST

MediaWiki train - Utc-0+Utc-7 Version (secondary timeslot)
Deployer	Antoine (hashar), Ahmon (dancy)
Changes	1.38 schedule group0 1.38.0-wmf.12->1.38.0-wmf.13 group1 1.38.0-wmf.12 group2 1.38.0-wmf.12 group0 to 1.38.0-wmf.13 Blockers: task T293954

00:00–01:00 UTC #
(Tue) 16:00–17:00 PST

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)
Changes	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

Wednesday, December 15

12:00–13:00 UTC #
04:00–05:00 PST

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), Lucas (Lucas_WMDE), Adam (awight), Martin (Urbanecm)
Changes	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

13:00–14:00 UTC #
05:00–06:00 PST

Pre MediaWiki train break
Deployer
Changes	No Deploys

14:00–16:00 UTC #
06:00–08:00 PST

MediaWiki train - Utc-0+Utc-7 Version
Deployer	Antoine (hashar), Ahmon (dancy)
Changes	1.38 schedule group0 1.38.0-wmf.13 group1 1.38.0-wmf.12->1.38.0-wmf.13 group2 1.38.0-wmf.12 group1 to 1.38.0-wmf.13 Blockers: task T293954

19:00–20:00 UTC #
11:00–12:00 PST

UTC evening 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)
Changes	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
Deployer	Antoine (hashar), Ahmon (dancy) + CPT
Changes	See Heterogeneous_deployment/Train_deploys#Breakage

20:00–22:00 UTC #
12:00–14:00 PST

MediaWiki train - Utc-0+Utc-7 Version (secondary timeslot)
Deployer	Antoine (hashar), Ahmon (dancy)
Changes	1.38 schedule group0 1.38.0-wmf.13 group1 1.38.0-wmf.12->1.38.0-wmf.13 group2 1.38.0-wmf.12 group1 to 1.38.0-wmf.13 Blockers: task T293954

21:00–22:00 UTC #
13:00–14:00 PST

Services – Graphoid / ORES
Deployer	Chris (chrisalbon), Andy (accraze)
Changes	See Graphoid

00:00–01:00 UTC #
(Wed) 16:00–17:00 PST

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)
Changes	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

01:00–02:00 UTC #
(Wed) 17:00–18:00 PST

Phabricator update
Deployer	Mukunda (twentyafterfour)
Changes	HOLD: Window to update phabricator.wikimedia.org

Thursday, December 16

11:00–12:00 UTC #
03:00–04:00 PST

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

12:00–13:00 UTC #
04:00–05:00 PST

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), Lucas (Lucas_WMDE), 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

13:00–14:00 UTC #
05:00–06:00 PST

Pre MediaWiki train break
Deployer
Changes	No Deploys

14:00–16:00 UTC #
06:00–08:00 PST

MediaWiki train - Utc-0+Utc-7 Version
Deployer	Antoine (hashar), Ahmon (dancy)
Changes	1.38 schedule group0 1.38.0-wmf.13 group1 1.38.0-wmf.13 group2 1.38.0-wmf.12->1.38.0-wmf.13 group2 to 1.38.0-wmf.13 Blockers: task T293954

17:00–18:00 UTC #
09:00–10:00 PST

Puppet request window (Max 6 patches)
Deployer	JBond (jbond), Reuven (rzl)
Changes	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to Puppet change

18:00–19:00 UTC #
10:00–11:00 PST

Services – Graphoid / ORES
Deployer	Chris (chrisalbon), Andy (accraze)
Changes	See Graphoid

19:00–20:00 UTC #
11:00–12:00 PST

UTC evening 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)
Changes	Requesting Developer (irc-nickname) Gerrit link to backport or config change

20:00–22:00 UTC #
12:00–14:00 PST

MediaWiki train - Utc-0+Utc-7 Version (secondary timeslot)
Deployer	Antoine (hashar), Ahmon (dancy)
Changes	1.38 schedule group0 1.38.0-wmf.13 group1 1.38.0-wmf.13 group2 1.38.0-wmf.12->1.38.0-wmf.13 group2 to 1.38.0-wmf.13 Blockers: task T293954

00:00–01:00 UTC #
(Thu) 16:00–17:00 PST

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, December 17

08:00–08:00 UTC #
00:00–00:00 PST

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

Saturday, December 18

08:00–08:00 UTC #
00:00–00:00 PST

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