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.
I there a changelog available?
There will be when we do the release. Its a big one.
I’m excited!
Proud to be on the official test server 🥲
haha, we appreciate the patience. We’re not a massive company with teams of people, just a couple of FOSS programmers.
This is why this instance is so well. Thank you for all the hard work in reliberating the web!
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Cheers for all of the work you Devs have put in…
Thx!
“Upcoming”? Are we talking hours, days, or weeks?
The release? 🤞 not more than a week, as long as we don’t run into major issues.
Let’s gooo!! Lemmy 0.19 ftw!
I’m excited for the scaling sort.
that has been workinf well on my instance 👍
Thank you for your service o7
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Cheering you on from over here at lemm.ee! Thanks for making this place better for everyone!
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Isn’t “here” programming.dev?
Ah crap I got another account there, I guess I’m cheering from both lol
Caught you on your alt 😉
ETA: lemmy is acting wonky for me too, sorry for triple posting
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Great idea. Hope all is fairly smooth!
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.
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.
can anyone tldr all big features coming in the new release?
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If I remember correctly it doesn’t block comments from instance users, only posts which could already be archived by using apps.
A shame but better than nothing I guess.
it doesn’t block comments from instance users, only posts
Which is enough for me.
which could already be archived by using apps
And that’s the thing here: You don’t need any apps anymore because it is implemented serverside. I am also not a fan of apps in general (they don’t fit my “workflow”).
It’s nice, but it could be better.
Can we see a list of instances that are blocked?
Removed by mod? This really is a revolutionary new feature.
Naming other instances (especially those two instances) is illegal now I guess 🤣
But I am pretty sure everyone knows what “those two” instances are, anyways.
Blatant displays of anticommunism are not allowed on lemmy ml
It’s the bare minimum they do to ensure it doesn’t just become another nazi bar instance.
If those two instances are seen as problematic by the mods of an official community I wonder why lemmy.ml is not defederated from them. lemmy.ml is defederated from so many weird/extremist instances, why not from those two?
But this is the announcement community, we should not discuss this here since it’s off topic.
ml is basically the omni-instance, the only places it’s defederated from are those which outright should not exist on the federation. I’m talking unmoderated, hate speech galore, and CSAM posted on the daily. The only thing ml defederates from outside that are porn instances. I joined a NSFW instance and tbh not missing out on much, it’s mostly commercial spam and a lot of… questionable stuff.
Thats so cool. I think this update will be the death of reddit
I think scaled sort and instance blocking are the biggest new features, lots of little tweaks and bug fixes too
What’s scaled sort?
Scaled: Like hot, but gives a boost to less active communities
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Thank you so much for your work on this instance.
How best to donate to help support?
Thanks! Here’s our donation page: https://join-lemmy.org/donate . Liberapay is preferred if possible.
Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes I can finally make those shitty instances go bye-bye
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Instance blocking, baybeeeee!
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Yeah the latest update gives you the ability to block instances outright, so if you’re an antifascist you can block all the .de instances and not have to deal with weird posts constantly showing up from there whenever you talk about the nazis.
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It’s less “ok they overtly support the nazis” more “that’s weird, why would you bring that up?”
Good luck!! If we don’t hear any exploding noises than I guess that means it is going ok?
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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.
It’s like hot sort, but gives a boost to inactive communities.
It’s like the other sort options, except it prioritizes communities with fewer subs, so that you’ll see content from smaller communities more often.