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[Update: Failed again] Update to 0.18.1-rc.1 tried and rolled back (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ruud@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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We've upgraded lemmy.world to 0.18.1-rc.1 and rolled back that upgrade because of issues.

(If you had posted anything in those 10 minutes between upgrade and rollback, that post is gone. Sorry!)

The main issue we saw is that users can't login anymore. Existing sessions still worked, but new logins failed (from macos, ios and android. From linux and windows it worked)

Also new account creation didn't work.

I'll create an issue for the devs and retry once it's fixed.

Edit Contacted the devs, they tell me to try again with lemmy-ui at version 0.18.0. Will try again, brace for some downtime!

Edit 2 So we upgraded again, and it seemed to work nicely! But then it slowed down so much it was unuseable. There were many locks in the database. People reported many JSON errors. Sorry, we won't be on 0.18.1 any time soon I'm afraid..

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[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Dude I posted the funniest comment in those 10 minutes but you all must have missed it. Oh well 😅

[-] naneek@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks for the transparency. Maybe it’s a good idea to have a test instance and some test cases/validation done there before updating the main instance. This is a regular process in any software/tech company/stack.

Testing should never be done directly on the prod instance.

[-] 65gmexl3@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

i think they tested it which worked fine, but it is totally different when there are users online

[-] antik@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Correct there was a test instance and that worked fine but once the live instance was upgraded everything became very slow. Can't really emulate that kind of load

[-] ren@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Good luck! May the software gods bless you with a functioning website with minimal bugs!

[-] DRx@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

[-] flubba86@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I had a weird issue after it upgraded. My browser (Firefox on Android) showed the Lemmy UI but showed no posts. I checked my profile to see if I was logged in, and it showed I was logged in as someone else! I cleared my cache and refreshed, it showed I wasn't logged in. After I logged in it was fine, and showed my expected posts and my actual profile. In Liftoff app my account worked fine the whole time, didn't need to log in again.

[-] T156@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Looks like we're still having issues, more's the pity.

Do we know what's causing the issue, or is it still a bit of a mystery for the time being?

[-] TeaHands@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Was worth a try! But yeah that was pretty bad 😬

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[-] ShlorpianMafia@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Anyone else's home feed only loading Local > Active ?

I can't get it to load any other new/hot or subscribed/all posts unless I go to a community page and browse one community at a time.

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[-] Mr_Bott@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Hello Lemmy World

[-] Classy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

In the meantime I've migrated over to Connect for Lemmy on Android, and it is working significantly better than Jerboa did.

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[-] ClassyHatter@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I managed to visit when the server was 0.18.1-rc. I didn’t see any posts and the selector for Subscribed, Local and All was “empty”, as in nothing was selected and I could not select anything.

[-] ruud@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Is it OK now? There's a bug in lemmy-ui 0.18.1-rc.1 which I think you've seen

[-] erik1984@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the update! (I mean the communication regarding the update) 0.18 moved away web sockets right? Maybe that leads to different DB access patterns causing locks on such a big instance as lemmy.world.

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[-] snargledorf@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

~~RC2~~ RC4 was just released, here's hoping it solves the issues you were experiencing with performance of RC1!

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[-] Spitz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Jerboa is almost unusable for me at the moment. A lot of crashes, pages not loading, messages not sending etc. But I know that's inevitable at times. Restarting my phone seemed to make it worse. But I know you guys are on it! 👍

[-] Earnest@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Liftoff is a much better app. I used Jerboa as well but found an alternative cuz it was pretty much unusable. Just dowload Liftoff's latest apk and install