We've finally updated to 0.19 after some serious wrangling with the database migrations.

You need to re-login on your apps, & reset 2FA if you had it

Basically it went super smooth on dev, (because the dev db was super-ish small). Turned out the regular pruning of the activities (sent/received) were not happening on production, so the database had grown to over 90GB!

It's finally sorted itself and everything is right with the world.

🚀

Cool New Features:

• Instance blocks, for Users!
• Import/Export Settings!
• a 60 minute downtime 😜
• "working" 2FA

The complete release notes are here: https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-12-15_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.0_-_Instance_blocking,_Scaled_sort,_and_Federation_Queue

Cheers,
Tiff

Edit 1.

There was/is a known bug relating to outgoing federation (https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4288) which we are hoping to be fixed with 0.19.1-rc1. To ensure we can federate with everyone we have updated to our first "beta" version in production. '-rc1'