UESPWiki:Upgrade History

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20 May 2024

• Banned the Amazon subnets:

• 3.0.0.0/8
• 13.0.0.0/8
• 18.0.0.0/8
• 52.0.0.0/8

which were ignoring robots.txt on content3 and having a combined request rate more than 500 req/sec for extended periods (this is intended to be temporary). -- Daveh ^(talk) 13:33, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

14 May 2024

• Banned the Amazonbot with iptables from all content servers using the IPs 23.22.35.0/24, 3.224.220.0/24, 52.70.240.0/24 due to continued abuse causing page load issues. -- Daveh ^(talk) 13:48, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
• Redirected all requests from tusw.net and subdomains to be 404 errors. -- Daveh ^(talk) 13:48, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
• Updated the robots.txt file to include all Special:* pages due to issues with crawler bots causing page loading issues. -- Daveh ^(talk) 13:48, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

5 April 2024

• Removed ipblocks from shared tables for Fallout wiki, as MW broke the functionality by adding a comment table that's internally shared among several tables but not externally shareable. This produces anomalies in the earlier versions after the change, outright breaking shared blocks in later versions. For now, it seems to work for the language-variant UESPs, but blocking on CS was failing to block on Fallout. When time permits, I'll rework the bot job that maintains the bulk blocks so that it'll maintain all wikis in the same job, but since it works one-by-one atm, I'm only doing changing the sharing on FO. Once the job's reworked, I'll unshare the table for the language variants as well. – Robin Hood ^(talk) 20:54, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

20 March 2024

• Updated all SSL certs for uesp.net and m.uesp.net domains. -- Daveh ^(talk) 13:41, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

21 February 2024

• Updated the PCRE libraries on content1/2/3 from 8.32 to 8.45. -- Daveh ^(talk) 16:34, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

29 January 2024

• Created new group for employees to facilitate managing rights that AKB, ThalJ, and any future employees require that don't fit readily into any other groups. Populated the group with Daveh, AKB, and ThalJ, then restricted all future changes to Daveh alone. – Robin Hood ^(talk) 03:38, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
• Created new group for interface editors to better prepare for permissions changes coming in MediaWiki 1.32. See User Group Rights. – Robin Hood ^(talk) 03:38, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

19 January 2024

• Uploaded new X and Facebook icons to images/icons for sidebar. – Robin Hood ^(talk) 02:33, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

16 January 2024

• Moved the ESO build editor and related components to load static content from esolog-static and esobuilds-static subdomains. -- Daveh ^(talk) 15:36, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
• Moved the esolog-static and esobuilds-static subdomains to be Cloudflare cached. -- Daveh ^(talk) 15:36, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

11 January 2024

• Fixed issue with MetaTemplate that caused some pages to not be cached in the parser cache causing them to be continually re-parsed whenever requested. -- Daveh ^(talk) 17:13, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

27 October 2023

• Tweaked Varnish config to try and improve cache hit rate for anonymous users (previously hit a cap around 55%). -- Daveh ^(talk) 18:41, 27 October 2023 (UTC)
• Note: This was reverted shortly afterwards due to issues serving cached documents to logged in users.

11 October 2023

• Switched over to a new db1 database write server. -- Daveh ^(talk) 16:56, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

5 July 2023

• Updated MediaWiki to 1.30. -- Daveh ^(talk) 13:44, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

4 July 2023

• Upgraded MariaDB on backup1 to 10.3. -- Daveh ^(talk) 20:54, 4 July 2023 (UTC)

21 June 2023

• Animated WEBP images will no longer have animated thumbnails to prevent a reocurring page load/timeout issue. -- Daveh ^(talk) 16:42, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

8 June 2023

• Added WikiMedia Commons as WMCommons to interwiki table. – Robin Hood ^(talk) 01:52, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

7 June 2023

• Commented out image resizing in extensions/MobileFrontend/resources/skins.minerva.content.styles/images.less (lines 52-57) as it was causing resizing of some thumbnails on Skyrim:Specialty Gear. – Robin Hood ^(talk) 02:51, 7 June 2023 (UTC)

2 March 2023

• Updated the SSL cert for all uesp.net domains. -- Daveh ^(talk) 15:43, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

15 December 2022

• Added the french wiki https://fr.uesp.net . -- Daveh ^(talk) 15:11, 15 December 2022 (UTC)

30 September 2022

• Reverted change on content2 from yesterday due to random Apache crashes (no obvious cause). -- Daveh ^(talk) 14:05, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

29 September 2022

• Enabled HTTP2 for Nginx on squid1. -- Daveh ^(talk) 17:50, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
• Enabled HTTP2 for the wiki on content2 (see User:Daveh/HTTP2). -- Daveh ^(talk) 17:12, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

22 September 2022

• Upgraded Lighttpd to 1.4.59 to enable HTTP2. -- Daveh ^(talk) 17:05, 22 September 2022 (UTC)

5 September 2022

• Tweaked the mobile skin in order for default preferences to be displayed (including Patreon). -- Daveh ^(talk) 20:14, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

28 July 2022

• Disabled MetaTemplate on SFWiki since it was causing errors and is about to be replaced by Riven anyway. The remaining non-Riven functions likely don't work under MW 1.35. – Robin Hood ^(talk) 02:00, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
  • Re-enabled, but with the MetaTemplate functions that Riven took over disabled, like on UESP. Despite MediaWiki's purported plan, it seems at least some of the parser functions are working as intended. Whether or not they are, they're at least preventing raw code from being displayed on-screen. – Robin Hood ^(talk) 03:32, 28 July 2022 (UTC)

25 July 2022

• Moved ElasticSearch index from content2 to search1. Was re-indexed from scratch last week. -- Daveh ^(talk) 14:48, 25 July 2022 (UTC)

10 July 2022

• (content3 only) '/includes/jobqueue/JobQueue.php': Temporarily set job queue maximum attempts in constructor to 20 instead of the normal 3 to clear out a large number of abandoned jobs that were stuck. These are likely fallout from the Riven issues a few days ago. Will return to normal 3 once job queue is empty. – Robin Hood ^(talk) 22:51, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

5 May 2022

• Installed the Imagick PHP extension in content1/2/3 for PHP 5.6, 7.1 and 7.4. -- Daveh ^(talk) 15:33, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

3 May 2022

• Manually modified resources/src/mediawiki/mediawiki.js on content1/2/3 according to this patch to fix a JS error on mobile when trying to run user scripts. -- Daveh ^(talk) 16:16, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

15 April 2022

• Moved all image/file services off the existing files1 server to the new files1 server. -- Daveh ^(talk) 16:39, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

17 February 2022

• Updated all SSL certificates for the uesp.net domain on content1/2/3, files1, and squid1. -- Daveh ^(talk) 15:30, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

11 February 2022

• Started using PHP 7.1 for the wiki on content1. -- Daveh ^(talk) 15:09, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
• Scribunto extension installed. -- Daveh ^(talk) 15:30, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

10 February 2022

• Started using PHP 7.1 for the wiki on content2. -- Daveh ^(talk) 19:00, 10 February 2022 (UTC)

9 February 2022

• Upgraded to MediaWiki 1.28.3. -- Daveh ^(talk) 20:56, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
• Started PHP 7.1 on content1/2 FPM on port 9000 and PHP 7.4 on content1/2 on port 9003. Was already running on content3. -- Daveh ^(talk) 20:56, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
• Installed the WikiEditor extension. -- Daveh ^(talk) 21:31, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

27 November 2021

• Fixed issue in MetaTemplate that was causing server side errors when previewing a page that doesn't yet exist. -- Daveh ^(talk) 13:58, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

6 October 2021

• Installed the PageImages extension. Started the process of refreshing links. -- Daveh ^(talk) 17:23, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

13 September 2021

• Made a custom 404 handler for images.uesp.net/thumb/... to dynamically create thumbnails of any size (up to the image size) upon request. -- Daveh ^(talk) 20:51, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

7 September 2021

• Set the $wgMFContentNamespace variable for the MobileFrontEnd extension so random page on mobile would actually be random and not just from the main namespace. -- Daveh ^(talk) 13:15, 7 September 2021 (UTC)

30 August 2021

• Installed the experimental search-highlighter plugin on ElasticSearch. -- Daveh ^(talk) 16:51, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

8 August 2021

• Fixed the Patroller extension from crashing (manually replaced the old wgMessage() function with wfMessage()). -- Daveh ^(talk) 14:32, 20 August 2021 (UTC)

25 June 2021

• extensions/UsersEditCount/UsersEditCount_body.php: Excluded bot group by default. Will add visible options for this later. – Robin Hood ^(talk) 22:06, 25 June 2021 (UTC)

24 June 2021

• Finished upgrading DB2 with SSDs. Average random read rate from disk increased by x30 over the old HDDs. -- Daveh ^(talk) 18:20, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

21 June 2021

• Removed all phpinfo.php files. Can be re-enabled upon request for development if needed. -- Daveh ^(talk) 18:50, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

3 June 2021

• Added correct SVG/SVGZ mime types to lighttpd config on files1. -- Daveh ^(talk) 14:47, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

19 May 2021

• Gadgets/includes/MediaWikiGadgetsDefinitionRepo.php: Added missing case near the end that was preventing gadgets from being hidden when requested. – Robin Hood ^(talk) 10:21, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

12 May 2021

• MobileFrontend/resources/skins.minerva.content.styles/hacks.less: Commented out the &.infobox section, which was causing several formatting issues on mobile. – Robin Hood ^(talk) 17:20, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

3 May 2021

• Turned off the query cache on db1/db2. No noticeable effect on wiki load times or ESO log load times observed. -- Daveh ^(talk) 13:05, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

8 Mar 2021

• Replaced InstantCommons version of UploadWizard's tutorial image with a local one and disabled InstantCommons. – Robin Hood ^(talk) 21:29, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

1 Mar 2021

• Installed the Upload Wizard extension on content1/2/3/dev. Pretty much default settings until otherwise needed. -- Daveh ^(talk) 14:47, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

10 Feb 2021

• Tweaked base redirects from uesp.net and www.uesp.net to default to HTTPS and forward automatically to the Main Page. -- Daveh ^(talk) 18:15, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

11 Jan 2021

• Upgraded TeamSpeak3 server to 3.13.3 and restarted (was not running, assumed to be crashed). -- Daveh ^(talk) 21:29, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

1 Jan 2021

• Added dev as an interwiki link. – Robin Hood ^(talk) 06:21, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

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