I'm going to upgrade ToolsDB from MariaDB 10.6.20 to 10.6.21
next Monday, April 28th around 13:00 UTC.
This will cause a brief downtime of ToolsDB (estimated: 10 minutes).
This work is tracked in Phabricator at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T392596
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Francesco Negri (he/him) -- IRC: dhinus
Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Services team
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi there,
the Cloud VPS network now supports IPv6.
We are making the final adjustments but it should be ready for general usage.
How to try yourself today:
* go to horizon.wikimedia.org
* open the panel to launch a new instance
* make sure VXLAN/IPv6-dualstack network is selected for the new instance
* the new VM will have 2 addresses, IPv4 and IPv6
See additional information, including frequently asked questions here:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/2025_Cloud_VPS_VXLAN_IPv6_migration
Please reach out for help in case you need it.
regards.
If you are a user of Wiki Replicas [0], please be aware that the
following database views are now deprecated:
* ipblocks
* ipblocks_ipindex
* ipblocks_compat
Users are encouraged to query these new views instead, that mirror the
new tables in the production database:
* block [1]
* block_target [2]
The deprecated views will be removed entirely from Wiki Replicas in
early June, 2025 (about one month from now).
This deprecation is tracked in Phabricator as T390767. [3]
[0] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Wiki_Replicas
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Block_table
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Block_target_table
[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T390767
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Francesco Negri (he/him) -- IRC: dhinus
Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Services team
Wikimedia Foundation
We will be upgrading Toolforge Kubernetes to v1.29
on Monday, Apr 7th around 11:00 UTC.
We do not expect any downtime, but some jobs and webservices may
restart as they get shuffled around to different worker nodes. Please
report any issues you encounter.[0]
For details see: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T390214
[0] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal:Toolforge#Communication_and_supp…
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Francesco Negri (he/him) -- IRC: dhinus
Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Services team
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi there,
we will have a network maintenance operation happening on 2025-04-03 @ 11:30 UTC.
All Cloud VPS and Toolforge could be affected by this operation, which may last
for about 1 hour.
For details, please check https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T389958
regards.