2025 09 20 (Saturday) Deployment - ustaxcourt/ef-cms GitHub Wiki

General Notes

For the first time ever, this release consists of two tandem deployments. It contains the latest assortment of work from Flexion and Gunnison. See the bug fixes and stories below.

Feature Stories

• https://github.com/ustaxcourt/ef-cms/issues/8006
• https://github.com/ustaxcourt/ef-cms/issues/9008
• https://github.com/ustaxcourt/ef-cms/issues/9012

Bug Fixes

• https://github.com/ustaxcourt/ef-cms/issues/9161

Observations

Timeline

(2025-09-19)

• 21:11 - Created the Pull Request for the first deployment

(2025-09-20)

• 19:44 - Created the Pull Request for the second deployment
• 20:21 - Deployed docker image 4.3.52 to the production ECR
• 20:22 - Merged the first deployment's PR - CircleCI Build
• 20:29 - First deployment's deploy step completes
• 20:34 - First deployment's read-only smoketests pass
• 20:35 - First deployment's load tests pass
• 20:37 - First deployment's wait for color switch step reached
• 20:55 - Enabled maintenance mode in the first deployment's deploying color
• 20:57 - First deployment's wait for color switch step manually approved
• 20:59 - First deployment switched colors (into maintenance mode)
• 21:03 - Account-specific terraform deployed
• 21:07 - Merged the second deployment's PR - CircleCI Build
• 21:10 - Postgres engine upgrade begins
• 21:23 - Postgres engine upgrade completes
• 21:29 - Second deployment's deploy step completes
• 21:31 - Trial sessions schema migration runs successfully
• 21:31 - Trial sessions migrated from DynamoDB to PostrgreSQL successfully
• 21:35 - Second deployment's read-only smoketests pass
• 21:37 - Second deployment's load tests pass
• 21:38 - Second deployment's wait for color switch step reached and manually approved
• 21:40 - Second deployment switched colors (out of maintenance mode)