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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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[-] Metal_Zealot@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

I lumme some lemmy with that lemony fresh scent

[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago

Great news!

[-] ryn@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

I got randomly signed out this morning, maybe this has something to do with that.

[-] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Honestly, I have some problems with this update (and some things I'm super happy about too of course), I hope my feedback is seen so the problems can be made aware:

  1. I'm not a fan of new comments having yellow, the contrast is poor at least on darkly-compact and it just looks weird and out of place. I'd suggest maybe making them a slightly lighter or darker shade of the existing color to make them stand out, not an entirely different color.
  2. It seems the main page/posts pagination uses pageCursor instead of page number now, whereas profiles still use page number. Using pageCursor is an SEO downgrade and usability downgrade, it's a weird decision IMO if that was intentional and not a bug.
  3. I think I might have run into a bug, Lemmy no longer seems to save my upvotes or something. When I upvote some posts on the main page/posts list, even if I wait a few seconds, or 10 seconds or even 30 seconds, when I refresh my upvotes are gone. ~~This one seems fixed now?~~ Nevermind, it's broken again, very weird.
  4. With "Top Day" sorting, there used to be multiple pages of posts, now sometimes I don't even get a full page of posts: https://i.imgur.com/4LiZzJG.png (it looks like it's showing posts from only one community, I have it set to subscribed communities but I'm literally subscribed to like 50 different communities) but other times I get one full page of posts plus multiple other posts which is how it always behaved before 0.19. Since it seems to be inconsistent, I'm thinking that's a bug.

I would probably suggest on holding off on releasing 0.19 for now, it does seem like a really large release so it might be better to make sure it's fully polished and ready to go.

I'm super glad upvoting comments doesn't discard the comment you're writing, that's a huge improvement. I also see import/export settings, that's super awesome, I absolutely love features like this!

Thank you for your hard work, Lemmy is such a cool platform.

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[-] UnverifiedAPK@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

I can sign in with a web browser, but this broke Jerboa for me

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

That's expected. Jerboa has an open PR for v0.19 support, and it'll be deployed with the official release.

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[-] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 7 points 1 year ago

This is super exciting!

[-] SlicingBot@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

How much longer will it be before I can finally log in and use boost or liftoff. Is there a timeline for a fix? Both have been broken since the update.

[-] Communist@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately that's an issue for boost and liftoff to fix on their end.

[-] wit@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It should work in Boost. The new version fixes that. Give it a try.

[-] maximilian@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Is there an update on the state of the update?

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[-] Neil@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the heads up and for all the work you do. Im proud to be a part of the O.G. server!

[-] Wes_Dev@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Voyager on Android seems to be working fine. 👍

[-] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

When I look at my subscribed list, I see lots of posts for communities I am not subscribed to.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Open up an issue on lemmy-ui's github if you would.

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[-] mtchristo@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Cheers. hopefully other apps will catch up a soon as the upgrade gets implemented across the lemmyverse

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

I’m thrilled to be able to use 2FA now, because I’m able to get an otpauth URI to feed to pass!

[-] kixik@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Is it normal that on an upgrade, users are forced to re-login?

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[-] RFLEpicGamer@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago
[-] ticoombs@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago

Should be fixed. (It already got merged: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4213)

[-] authed@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When I vote on a story while not logged in, it silently fails on 0.19-rc8

[-] Eikichi@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

If i go on my profile, i cannot see post made on an another instance :'(

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[-] authed@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Sounds good to me

[-] schizoidman@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Seems federation is broken atm.

[-] authed@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

v0.19 still doesnt have the "subreddit" name in URLs?

also, I keep getting logged off

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