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Lemmy.ml v0.19 upgrade issues and downtime. (lemmy.ml)
submitted 9 months ago by dessalines@lemmy.ml to c/announcements@lemmy.ml
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In anticipation of Lemmy's upcoming 0.19 release, and to work out any final issues, we're going to deploy a test release on lemmy.ml within the next few days.

We're doing this testing on lemmy.ml only, so that we can encounter any issues before the release, and to make sure the upgrade process is smooth for other production servers.

Some of the following will happen during the process:

  • Apps will likely break (only for lemmy.ml)
  • Lemmy.ml may experience some downtime for the upgrade to complete (ideally no more than an hour).
  • If anything goes wrong, we may have to restore from a database backup, meaning content made in between backups may be lost.

If all goes well, we'll have an official announcement for the release after this testing period.

I apologize for the difficulties this might cause. At most this will be a week of hair-pulling, but its vital that we catch any issues before telling other servers to upgrade.

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[–] sub_ubi@lemmy.ml 56 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Proud to be on the official test server πŸ₯²

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 59 points 9 months ago (4 children)

haha, we appreciate the patience. We're not a massive company with teams of people, just a couple of FOSS programmers.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 13 points 9 months ago

This is why this instance is so well. Thank you for all the hard work in reliberating the web!

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[–] FrankLaskey@lemmy.ml 35 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I there a changelog available?

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 76 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There will be when we do the release. Its a big one.

[–] furycd001@lemmy.ml 29 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Cheers for all of the work you Devs have put in....

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 21 points 9 months ago

Thx!

[–] magnetosphere@kbin.social 28 points 9 months ago (1 children)

β€œUpcoming”? Are we talking hours, days, or weeks?

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 46 points 9 months ago

The release? 🀞 not more than a week, as long as we don't run into major issues.

[–] Grayox@lemmy.ml 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for your service o7

[–] silas@programming.dev 22 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Cheering you on from over here at lemm.ee! Thanks for making this place better for everyone!

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 18 points 9 months ago

❀

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[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Let's gooo!! Lemmy 0.19 ftw!

[–] VentraSqwal@links.dartboard.social 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm excited for the scaling sort.

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[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 19 points 9 months ago

rat-salute

[–] yoz@aussie.zone 17 points 9 months ago (23 children)

can anyone tldr all big features coming in the new release?

[–] CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml 35 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Some that come to mind:

  • Scaled sort, which takes community size into consideration when looking for top posts
  • User will be able to block instances without the need for their home instance to defederate
  • The new flow for enabling 2FA makes it harder for users to accidentally lock themselves out of their accounts
  • There will be a feed option to just see posts in communities you moderate (as opposed to subscribed, local, and all)
  • Controversial sort
  • You can import and export account settings as JSON, making switching instances easier
[–] squeakycat@lemmy.ml 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

User will be able to block instances without the need for their home instance to defederate

Ooohhhhh so good. I have been wanting that.

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[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thank you so much for your work on this instance.

How best to donate to help support?

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 18 points 9 months ago

Thanks! Here's our donation page: https://join-lemmy.org/donate . Liberapay is preferred if possible.

[–] willya@lemmyf.uk 15 points 9 months ago

Great idea. Hope all is fairly smooth!

[–] aeharding@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is good to hear! Have you considered releasing more often with smaller sets of changes, for future releases? It seems like this will be quite the upgrade.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 33 points 9 months ago

Yep, we'd def prefer to do smaller releases, and we'll try to make them more frequent and smaller in the future. The main reason this one was so delayed, is because of the large number of breaking changes, esp. w/ respect to authentication.

[–] Plasma@lemmy.ml 11 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Can somebody explain what this scaling sort thing is to me? I've heard it a lot, but I don't know exactly what it does.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 30 points 9 months ago

It's like hot sort, but gives a boost to inactive communities.

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago (3 children)

scaling sort thing? do you have a link describing what you mean?

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[–] furycd001@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago (7 children)

The update has broken a bunch of things for me..
On my desktop using firefox, I cannot get images to display & everything is slow to load. On my android phone, boost was showing me a ton of stuff that I do not follow & wasn't showing me any info about my profile (profile tab would not load or something). Boost eventually logged me out & I have been unable to log back in....

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago

Images were temporarily broken due to authentication problems, but thats fixed now. If you encounter problems in apps, please them to the developers so they can fix them.

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[–] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yoooo I see the export/import settings thingie.

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[–] Sal@mander.xyz 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for your hard work!!

I appreciate that you going through this test period. I hope it all goes smoothly and that at least a few hairs remain on your heads by the end of this week. Good luck!

[–] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 8 points 9 months ago

Good luck!! If we don’t hear any exploding noises than I guess that means it is going ok?

[–] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago

❀️

[–] nar@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I was just wondering: Instead of testing these potentially disruptive changes on the main website, why wouldn't you make some testing instances where people can try everything out, like voyager, enterprise, and ds9 were back in the day?

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[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes I can finally make those shitty instances go bye-bye

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[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 7 points 9 months ago

This is super exciting!

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