Cloud August 2026

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[Cloud-announce] [cloud-announce][REMINDER]: Debian Bullseye reaches end of support on August 31, 2026
by Seyram Komla Sapaty via Cloud-announce 18 Aug '26

18 Aug '26

Hello, This is a reminder that Debian Bullseye will reach the end of its Long Term Support (LTS) on August 31, 2026[0] If your Cloud VPS project still has instances running Debian Bullseye, now is the time to migrate them to **Debian Bookworm or Debian Trixie**. We have published a migration guide to help with the process.[1] As part of this migration, it may also be worth evaluating whether your workload is a good fit for Toolforge. If feasible, migrating to Toolforge can reduce future maintenance burden, as operating system upgrades are much simpler. Our goal is to complete these migrations before Bullseye reaches end of support. After the upstream LTS deadline, Bullseye instances may become subject to shutdown or cleanup as part of the deprecation process. If you are unable to complete your migration before August 31, or need assistance, please let us know as soon as possible. In addition to replying on this mailing list or contacting the Tools Platform team[2], please file a Phabricator task tagged **Cloud-VPS (Debian Bullseye Deprecation[3])** so we can track your project and work with you on a migration plan. [0]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T401804 [1]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Cloud_VPS_instance_operating_syste… [2]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Cloud_VPS#Communication_and_support [3]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/8107/ Thanks! -- Seyram Komla Sapaty Developer Advocate Wikimedia Cloud Services _______________________________________________ Cloud-announce mailing list -- cloud-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org List information: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/cloud-announce.lists.wikimedia.…

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[Cloud-announce] Toolforge kubernetes upgrade Wednesday 2026-08-26, 15:00 UTC
by Andrew Bogott via Cloud-announce 17 Aug '26

17 Aug '26

Next Wednesday we will up upgrading the Toolforge Kubernetes install to version 1.33. This upgrade should not result in any feature changes or downtime but there may be brief network resets and pods may be restarted and/or rescheduled. This upgrade is tracked here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T433132 -Andrew _______________________________________________ Cloud-announce mailing list -- cloud-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org List information: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/cloud-announce.lists.wikimedia.…

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[Cloud-announce] Does your tool read from [wbc_entity_usage] table?
by Danny Benjafield via Cloud-announce 04 Aug '26

04 Aug '26

(If your third-party tool does not read data from [wbc_entity_usage] via Wiki Replicas, please ignore this email) Hello everyone, planning is underway to move the Wikibase [wbc_entity_usage] tables for all wikis to a different “*x1 extension cluster*” to improve database space usage [0]. We expect that few, (if any) third-party tools directly rely on this table — but before making any breaking changes, we want to confirm that. If your tool uses this table, hearing from you will help us understand how many tools are affected and what that usage looks like, so we can plan the migration accordingly. [wbc_entity_usage] tracks which Wikidata entities are used on a given Wiki’s pages, and also powers Wikidata-triggered Recent Changes and Watchlist injections to client Wikis. *// What's affected //* If you operate a tool that reads from the [wbc_entity_usage] table — through Wiki Replicas or directly from SQL, this may affect you. This is especially likely if your query JOINs [wbc_entity_usage] with other MediaWiki tables (e.g. ‘page’, ‘revision’), since cross-cluster JOINs will stop working when the migration is completed. *// What to do //* Please comment on [1] (even a simple “yes, I am affected” is helpful). If you can share more, we'd like to know: - The Tool name and location (e.g. Toolforge, repo link). - If your query JOIN’s [wbc_entity_usage] with other tables, please tell us which. - How often the queries run against [wbc_entity_usage], (e.g. real-time, daily, weekly, manually). Please be aware: - [wbc_entity_usage] will eventually be removed from Wiki Replicas and direct SQL. Existing queries against this table will need to be replaced with a different approach. - During the lengthy transition period, the tables will still operate, so existing queries will continue to function until access is turned off when the migration is complete [2]. - Once the Wiki Replicas access ends, tool users should switch over to using the MediaWiki API [3] or Recent Changes API [4] to read changes instead. Queries on the table will no longer work *after* the migration is completed, so they will need to be adjusted. *// Links //* [0] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T424133 [2] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T424440 [3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Bwbentityusage [4] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:RecentChanges Please report if your tool is affected to the relevant Phabricator ticket: [1] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T430289 Thank you, Danny (on behalf of the Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata_For_Wikimedia_Projects> team) -- *Danny Benjafield* Community Communications Manager Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Phone: +49 (0)30-577 11 62-0 https://wikimedia.de Keep up to date! Current news and exciting stories about Wikimedia, Wikipedia and Free Knowledge in our newsletter (in German): Subscribe now. <https://www.wikimedia.de/newsletter/> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us to achieve our vision! https://spenden.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland — Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Charlottenburg, VR 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. Geschäftsführende Vorstände: Franziska Heine _______________________________________________ Cloud-announce mailing list -- cloud-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org List information: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/cloud-announce.lists.wikimedia.…

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Re: [Cloud-announce] Re: NFS scratch volume maintenance on Monday 2027-08-03 (Urlaub / On vacation)
by Tobias Bülte 03 Aug '26

03 Aug '26

Danke für Ihre Nachricht. Ich bin bin derzeit im Urlaub. Ab dem 07.04. wieder erreichbar. Ihre Email wird nicht weitergeleitet. In dringenden Fällen schreiben Sie meinen Kollegen oi(a)hbz-nrw.de Beste Grüße Tobias Bülte - hbz ---- Thank you very much for your email! I am currently on vacation and will be available again from 22.04. Your email will not be forwarded for confidentiality reasons. In urgent cases, please contact my colleagues at oi(a)hbz-nrw.de Best regards Tobias Bülte - hbz

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[Cloud-announce] NFS scratch volume maintenance on Monday 2027-08-03
by Andrew Bogott via Cloud-announce 03 Aug '26

03 Aug '26

This email relates to the shared /data/scratch mount used by toolforge and some cloud-vps projects. It is provided to the following projects: - dumps - language - maps - math - mwoffliner - paws - statanalyser - testlabs - tools - toolsbeta - video - wikidata-query - wikidumpparse - wikiqlever As part of our push to eliminate the use of Debian Bullseye, we will be replacing the server that hosts the nfs scratch volume on Monday, sometime around 15:00 UTC. Testing suggests that this will only produce a few minutes of downtime for the volume (likely reported as 'Permission Denied'); if you find your system frozen please give it a few minutes and then reboot if waiting doesn't help. The data on the old server will be transferred to the new server, so no data will be lost.[0] Bonus points: If you are a cloud-vps admin and have read this far, please consider whether you still need the scratch volume. This service was initially provided before we had attachable block storage available[1], so many users rely on scratch not for file transfer between hosts but because they needed extra storage space. If you are one of those cases, please open a quota ticket[2] and mention that you are moving off of scratch. Life without NFS is better for everyone! This work is tracked on phabricator here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T433426 - Andrew + the WMCS team [0] ...but if you have data on scratch that you care about, it should be somewhere else! We make no reliability guarantees for this storage. [1] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Adding_disk_space_to_Cloud_VPS_ins… [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2880/ _______________________________________________ Cloud-announce mailing list -- cloud-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org List information: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/cloud-announce.lists.wikimedia.…

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