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⬆️Update Wikibase Cloud to MediaWiki 1.43
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This is a task to be used in the ticket parent-child graph to track things that will happen before and after this update.

A probable order from 1.39 update:

  • create new mediawiki-143 image
  • create new mediawiki-143 deployments but ship no traffic there
  • generate new db snapshot to add to api
  • enable new wikis to be created with new 1.43 version
  • migrate staging wikis
  • migrate production wikis
  • remove 1.39 releases
  • shortcut out any "update" routing

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Event Timeline

We will add a ticket about automatically routing traffic to the correct mediawiki versions from the ingress by looking up the version from the api see:

Anton.Kokh renamed this task from Update Wikibase Cloud to MediaWiki 1.43 to ⬆️Update Wikibase Cloud to MediaWiki 1.43.Jul 11 2025, 2:55 PM
Anton.Kokh changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Goal".

We concluded for now that we are happy to leave this routing in place and take the potentially mild performance penalty.