Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Essential work/2026-04-17
Essential Work
[edit]Weekly essential work update for 2026-W16
Shipped
[edit]- Patch Demo – an environment to share pre-merge MediaWiki changes had two backend, stability updates:
- Upgrade our K8s version to latest release – This unblocks changes to make better use of resources, scaling down environments when they are not in use.
- Patch Demo PHP application now using a PHP framework – Should unblock the ability to configure wikifarm wikis in new/different ways and make the wikifarms more useful for more folks (originally built for the needs of the connections team)
- Jenkins support for Java 17 is ending: verified the new Jenkins Java21 host in production has correct plugins and connection to CI workers is correct ahead of switchover.
Blockers
[edit]- N/A
Lessons Learned
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Community collab
[edit]- As usual, made a few private repos, got a new few volunteers set up in GitLab
Other
[edit]No 1.46.0-wmf.25 train due to Wednesday holiday.
Deployment of MediaWiki 1.46.0-wmf.24
Mostly quiet, a couple of configuration problems with WikiLambda caused log noise (and a rollback), but was resolved quickly by James F.
- MediaWiki_1.46/wmf.24
- 405 Patches █▇▄▁▆
- 1 Rollbacks ▁▁█▁█
- 0 Days of delay ▄▄▄▄▄
- 2 Blockers █▁▇▁▄