Requirements:
Previously:
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| · · · | ||||
| Resolved | Krinkle | T319432 Migrate WMF production from PHP 7.4 to PHP 8.1 | ||
| Resolved | Scott_French | T377042 Support cookie-driven fractional migration to PHP 8.1 deployments of mw-web and mw-api-ext | ||
| Resolved | Krinkle | T377987 Prepare sticky cookie for gradual PHP 8.1 rollout | ||
| · · · |
The previous MW configuration and JS code for this has been kept and maintained since 2022 and so is already in production:
From Codesearch (current code):
The mechanism is controlled via the $wgWMENewPHPVersion and $wgWMENewPHPSamplingRate MediaWiki configuration variables, which default to "" and 0 respectively.
When set, the above JavaScript code (already enabled in production today) will create a 7-day PHP_ENGINE cookies, set to the value of $wgWMENewPHPVersion.
When the traffic is at 0%, or if you want to force your own opt-in for any reason when your own random cookie happens to be outside the bucket, you can use the PHP_ENGINE_STICKY=1 cookie to force the client logic to preserve any manaully set PHP_ENGINE=8.1 cookie, as follows:
$.cookie( 'PHP_ENGINE', version, { expires: 30, path: '/' } ); $.cookie( 'PHP_ENGINE_STICKY', '1', { expires: 30, path: '/' } );
Cookies like PHP_ENGINE=8.1 are expected to be handled at either the edge or appserver layer. Previously this was handled in Varnish and Apache. Now, on mw-on-k8s, I imagine this will be in hanled in an ATS plugin. That'll be tracked in a separate task.
Local testing:
wfLoadExtension('EventLogging'); wfLoadExtension('EventBus'); wfLoadExtension('WikimediaEvents'); $wgWMENewPHPVersion = '8.1'; $wgWMENewPHPSamplingRate = 0.0;
Then, from the Main Page, logged-out, in the browser console
$.cookie(); //> Object { "my_wikimwuser-sessionId": "0cf86c91af0ff8ba946e" } mw.loader.moduleRegistry['ext.wikimediaEvents'].packageExports['config.json'] //> Object { newPHPSamplingRate: 0, newPHPVersion: "8.1", … }
$wgWMENewPHPVersion = '8.1'; $wgWMENewPHPSamplingRate = 0.5;
$.cookie() //> Object { "my_wikimwuser-sessionId": "0cf86c91af0ff8ba946e", PHP_ENGINE: "8.1" } mw.loader.moduleRegistry['ext.wikimediaEvents'].packageExports['config.json'] //> Object { newPHPSamplingRate: 0.5, newPHPVersion: "8.1", … }
$wgWMENewPHPVersion = '8.1'; $wgWMENewPHPSamplingRate = 1.0;
$.cookie() //> Object { "my_wikimwuser-sessionId": "0cf86c91af0ff8ba946e", PHP_ENGINE: "8.1" } mw.loader.moduleRegistry['ext.wikimediaEvents'].packageExports['config.json'] //> Object { newPHPSamplingRate: 1, newPHPVersion: "8.1", … }
$wgWMENewPHPVersion = '8.1'; $wgWMENewPHPSamplingRate = 0.2;
$.cookie() //> Object { "my_wikimwuser-sessionId": "0cf86c91af0ff8ba946e" } mw.loader.moduleRegistry['ext.wikimediaEvents'].packageExports['config.json'] //> Object { newPHPSamplingRate: 0.2, newPHPVersion: "8.1", … }
Next, manual override for developer testing (e.g. when sample rate is at 0%).
$.cookie() //> Object { "my_wikimwuser-sessionId": "0cf86c91af0ff8ba946e" } mw.loader.moduleRegistry['ext.wikimediaEvents'].packageExports['config.json'] //> Object { newPHPSamplingRate: 0, newPHPVersion: "8.1", … } $.cookie( 'PHP_ENGINE', '8.1', { expires: 30, path: '/' } ); $.cookie( 'PHP_ENGINE_STICKY', '1', { expires: 30, path: '/' } );
After hard-refreshing the page, the JS code is expected to preserve the PHP_ENGINE cookie, despite being outside sampling (unlike rollback behaviour above):
$.cookie() //> Object { "my_wikimwuser-sessionId": "0cf86c91af0ff8ba946e", PHP_ENGINE: "8.1", PHP_ENGINE_STICKY: "1" } mw.loader.moduleRegistry['ext.wikimediaEvents'].packageExports['config.json'] //> Object { newPHPSamplingRate: 0, newPHPVersion: "8.1", … }