Thank you everyone involved in doing this, I know it has been quite the chore.

DJ

> On 15 Sep 2026, at 01:07, Ferran Tufan via Wikitech-l 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> As of ~19:59 UTC today [1], Beta Cluster ("deployment-prep") has been 
> migrated from PHP 8.3 to PHP 8.5. This is part of a wider project to migrate 
> Wikimedia production from PHP 8.3 to PHP 8.5 [2].
> 
> Paired with the PHP upgrade, the maintenance host, (API) appservers and the 
> jobrunner have been migrated from Debian Bullseye to Debian Bookworm. 
> Production on mw-on-k8s has already been using Bookworm-based container 
> images since [3], so an OS upgrade was well overdue.
> 
> If you believe you have found a new error *related to PHP 8.5 support* in 
> MediaWiki core or a Wikimedia-deployed extension, please consider creating a 
> Phabricator task and linking it to [4]. Furthermore, if you believe a blocker 
> is severe enough to warrant a rollback to the old hosts (on Debian Bullseye 
> and running PHP 8.3), rollback instructions can be found at [5].
> 
> Assuming no severe issues pop up and all PHP 8.5 support issues are rather 
> trivial to resolve, I would like to delete all PHP 8.3/Bullseye hosts soon, 
> but not before 2026-09-20 23:59 UTC.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ferran
> 
> ("Southparkfan")
> 
> [1] https://sal.toolforge.org/log/3353oaABDAZZyZXndfmp
> 
> [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T413223
> 
> [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T418200
> 
> [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T436177
> 
> [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T435393#12320355
> 
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