News
Cloud Services news 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
Communication and support
Support and administration of the WMCS resources is provided by the Wikimedia Foundation Cloud Services team and Wikimedia movement volunteers. Please reach out with questions and join the conversation:
Discuss and receive general support
- Chat in real time in the IRC channel #wikimedia-cloud connect or the bridged Telegram group
- Discuss via email after you have subscribed to the cloud@ mailing list
Stay aware of critical changes and plans
- Subscribe to the cloud-announce@ mailing list (all messages are also mirrored to the cloud@ list)
- Read the News wiki page
Track work tasks and report bugs
Use a subproject of the #Cloud-Services Phabricator project to track confirmed bug reports and feature requests about the Cloud Services infrastructure itself
Read stories and WMCS blog posts
Read the Cloud Services Blog (for the broader Wikimedia movement, see the Wikimedia Technical Blog)