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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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (2 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....

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I have experienced the same login bug on the Mlem app as well. One of my devices stayed logged in and is working perfectly; my other device logged me out of lemmy.ml and I have not been able to log back in on that device.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

+1 for Connect app on Android. Got booted out and unable to log back in.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is our fault, not the fault of app devs. The post text explains it, but we're working out a few bugs on a large instance, running an unreleased version of lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Again I'd just like to thank you for all the hard work you & all the other devs are putting into working on fixing everything that broke with this upgrade....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thx! It turned out to be a lot more than we expected 😭

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Well you all done an excellent job 👍👏