Demigodrick

Hey all,

Just wanted to loop everyone in to the bugs/issues that have been discovered so far with 0.19. I'll try to keep this updated, however if you notice any others please put them below.

The link to the Lemmy github issues page is here.

• Show Read Posts setting is broken #4290

• Outgoing federation problem #4288

• Controversial post sort should have time limit #4292

• Fetching an unseen community no longer retrieves the 10 newest posts #4283 (should be fixed in next version)

• Increasing and high Server Load Avearge #4282

We're experiencing most of these (except the outgoing federation one AFAIK, I've not had it reported).

We are especially suffering from the high server load one, and you may see downtime where Lemmy.zip is not loading for short periods (or the message "lemmy is starting") while the DB restarts itself. This should only last a couple of seconds.

To mitigate this, I've temporarily upgraded the performance of the server so this should happen less frequently (once a day instead of once an hour!) but I do sincerely apologise. With any luck this will be fixed soon.

Thanks

Demigodrick

It appears the upgrade to 0.19 was successful, which brings with it a host of improvements and upgrades.

The full list of changes is here. One issue that you may notice is that if you previously had 2FA set up, this will have been removed during the upgrade.

I would encourage everyone to set up 2FA now that the issues with it are fixed.

If you notice any issues, please drop me a message here or on matrix and I can look into it.

One change I've had to make is to remove the Voyager front end (v.lemmy.zip) - Voyager has it's own app in all app stores now, and maintenance of our own modified version of the front-end was becoming tricky. Apologies to anyone this affects.

Lemmy 0.19 has been released!

You can see the full changelog here

In order to apply this update, we'll be scheduling a 2 hour window starting 11:00AM UTC Saturday 16th December (I.e. tomorrow).

This will include at least one server restart, and as part of the upgrade process the database will probably be offline, so expect definite connection issues during this window. Lots of backing up will be done too.

I'll make another post when the window begins, and a further post when it is completed and we are happy everything is working.

Thanks

Demigodrick