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and major change announcements
Current announcements
2025 Cloud VPS Purge
We are asking project members to claim their active Cloud VPS projects, tell us a bit about the project's purpose, and also explicitly tell us about projects that were no longer needed.
Cloud VPS Bullseye deprecation
Debian 11 Bullseye is being phased out.
New Toolforge log storage
Toolforge jobs are being migrated to a new log storage system with more features. File logging is being removed.
Cloud VPS VXLAN and IPv6 migration
Cloud VPS will gain IPv6 support, and will transition its underlying overlay network to VXLAN.
Recently completed
Wikidata term store database split
Tables holding Wikidata's term store (
wbt_*
) were split to a new separate database cluster.
Migrating Wikitech accounts to SUL
Wikitech was fully converted to using
SUL user accounts
on 2025-02-24.
Toolforge Grid Engine Deprecation
Toolforge Grid Engine was shut down in March 2024 after a multi-year deprecation process
Archive
2016 Cloud VPS Purge
2017 Tools Precise deprecation
2017 Wiki Replica c1 and c3 shutdown
2017 Wiki Replicas Redesign
2018 Cloud VPS Purge
2018 Trusty deprecation
2019 Actor storage changes on the Wiki Replicas
2019 Cloud VPS Purge
2019 Jessie deprecation
2019 Toolforge Trusty deprecation
2020 Cloud VPS Purge
2020 HTTPS enforcement at shared proxy
2020 Kubernetes cluster migration
2020 PAWS migration
2020 Phasing out the .wmflabs domain
2020 Toolforge.org domain introduction
2020 Toolforge Elasticsearch v7 migration
2020 Wiki Replicas Redesign
2020 Wiki Replicas Redesign/Wiki Replicas Cross-DB Query Data
2021 CloudVPS NAT wikis
2021 Cloud VPS Purge
2021 Stretch deprecation
2022 Cloud VPS Purge
2022 Toolforge Stretch deprecation
2023 Cloud VPS metrics changes
2023 ToolsDB upgrade
2024 Buster deprecation
2024 Cloud VPS Purge
2024 Migrating Wikitech Account to SUL
2024 Migrating Wikitech Account to SUL/Rename requests
2024 Toolforge Grid Engine deprecation
2024 Toolforge Grid Engine deprecation/unreached tools list
2025 Cloud VPS Bullseye deprecation
2025 Cloud VPS Purge
2025 Cloud VPS VXLAN IPv6 migration
2025 New Toolforge log storage
2025 Wikidata term store database split
See also
Toolforge change log
for minor changes
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