Hi everyone,
Stage 1 of the MediaWiki 1.18 deployment is complete. We've deployed to the following wikis: * he.wikisource.org * mediawiki.org * simple.wikipedia.org * simple.wiktionary.org * strategy.wikimedia.org * usability.wikimedia.org
The deployment had a few bumps (mainly problems with LiquidThreads, which we reverted to 1.17), but mostly went well. We started late due to getting a last-minute adjustment to the Resource Loader/Het Deploy compatibility fix in.
You can see some of the last minute changes we made here: http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?path=branches%2Fwmf%2F1.18wmf1&titl...
...as well as logs of major changes to the cluster last night here: http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Server_admin_log
Thanks to all involved! Next step is Stage 2 on Monday. More details about the 1.18 deployment generally are here: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/09/16/mediawiki118iscomin/
Rob