The new x4 database section is now live on the Wiki Replicas. Tools updated for the new database layout now receive live updates again. The links tables will be dropped from the old s4 section at a later date.
For more information, see the News page on Wikitech[0]. [0]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/2026_Commons_links_tables_database_split (Apologies for the double message to the cloud@ list, this was accidentally sent to that list only instead of cloud-announce@ at first.) On Tue, 8 Sept 2026 at 14:20, Francesco Negri via Cloud-announce <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 4, 2026 at 11:39 PM Alexander Vorwerk via Cloud-announce > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Here is an update on the ongoing work to move the links tables of > > Commons to a dedicated cluster (x4). > > If you use Wiki Replicas to query the Commons links tables listed in > the previous message, be aware that starting today those tables are no > longer getting live updates. > > The SRE Data Persistence team is working on setting up the new "x4" > section on the Wiki Replicas hosts,[0] which is expected to take > several days to complete. > > In the meantime, you can already start using the following new endpoints: > - links.commonswiki.analytics.db.svc.wikimedia.cloud > - links.commonswiki.web.db.svc.wikimedia.cloud > - links.testcommonswiki.analytics.db.svc.wikimedia.cloud > - links.testcommonswiki.web.db.svc.wikimedia.cloud > > These new endpoints are currently returning the same data as the old > endpoints, frozen as of today. As soon as the new "x4" section is > available on Wiki Replicas, the new endpoints will start returning > live data. > > For more information, refer to the News page on Wikitech.[1] > > [0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T431309 > [1] > https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/2026_Commons_links_tables_database_split > > -- > Francesco Negri (he/him) -- IRC: dhinus > Site Reliability Engineer, Tools Platform > Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > Cloud-announce mailing list -- [email protected] > List information: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/cloud-announce.lists.wikimedia.org/ -- Taavi Väänänen (he/they) Site Reliability Engineer, Tools Infrastructure Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Cloud-announce mailing list -- [email protected] List information: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/cloud-announce.lists.wikimedia.org/
