Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Essential work/2026-02-20

Essential Work

Weekly essential work update for 2026-W08

Shipped

• T417657#11623845 Phabricator deploy to catch up with upstream. Minor bug fixes and new translations. Better task search sorting, probably most notable.
• Jenkins upgrade to keep pace with upstream.
• Gerrit running on new OS version alongside Collaboration Services.
• Updated Patch Demo/Catalyst dev environment to be one command. More work incoming on this.

Blockers

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Lessons Learned

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Community collab

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Other

Deployment of MediaWiki 1.46.0-wmf.16

A couple of blockers from migrating Oauth back to upstream T417820. There was also some disruption of thumbnail sizes T375981

• MediaWiki_1.46/wmf.16
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  • 0 Rollbacks ████▁
  • 0 Days of delay ███▁▁
  • 3 Blockers ▁▅█▅▄
• Train task: T408277
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