Hello, This is the weekly update from the search team at the foundation for the week starting 2017-12-04.

== Discussions==

=== Search === * Upgrading to ElasticSearch 5.5.x took a lot of smaller sections of work to be completed [0] ** Complete a Kibana security release [1] ** Upgrading Logstash cluster to elastic 5.5.x [2] ** Upgrading all log producers to use the Logstash LVS endpoint [3] * There was a HP RAID Battery issue on elastic2004 that has been resolved [4] * There was an issue with forceSearchIndex.php hanging at the end of the process when running on large wikis, so we disabled statsd collection instead of replacing statsd [5]

=== Portal === * Fixed an issue where the logo on www.wikipedia.org is misaligned for RTL languages on very small devices [6] * Automation is nearly done for the Wikipedia.org portal site [7]

== FY 2017-18 Q2 (Oct-Dec) goals]== This status was last updated 2017-12-08. [8]

[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174662 [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173685 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178412 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T175242 [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181412 [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181716 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179273 [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140159 [8] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates/2017-12-04#FY_2017-1...

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Yours, Chris Koerner Community Liaison Wikimedia Foundation