We are running the latest release candidate for Lemmy, version 0.19.0-rc.1. This release candidate includes many changes.

Every release comes with its own challenges; however, it resolves previous ones. We hope this release will resolve a longstanding issue with sync not working, causing a lot of manual work from the admins to keep things in sync.

Please let us know if you experience any weird behavior.

Some known issues so far are:

  • HTML entities characters in posts bodies (Changing & to &)
  • The spoiler tag crashes the site if used in the sidebar
  • Mobile apps are borked again

Update 10/25/2023

  • We are now running release candidate 3.
  • @FelipeFelop
    1•9 months ago

    I’ve been told by the developers of Liftoff! That they don’t intend to support 0.19RC at the moment.

    Has discuss.online been defederated or is it to do with being on 0.19

    • @FelipeFelop
      1•9 months ago

      I’ve been told by another developer that v0.19 is at least four weeks away and so there’s no urgency in adding v0.19 compatibility.

      Not sure I can put up with the web interface that long.

      Is there absolutely no way that we can roll back to 0.18.5?

      • @lazyguruMA
        2•9 months ago

        We've tried rolling back multiple times in a couple of different ways. They all end up failing. From what we have seen through it all, Lemmy doesn't support downgrading/rolling back

        • @FelipeFelop
          1•9 months ago

          Thanks for responding. It’s disappointing that not a single third party app seems to work with 0.19RC.

          Can nothing be done ?

          • jgrim of SublinksOPMA
            1•9 months ago

            Lemmy changed their API contract with mobile apps without warning or API versioning. They changed how requests are authenticated, so it's not the most simple of fixes. Ideally, this change would be a new API version not to break previous integrations; however, that's not how it was done.

            We continue to update because issues are resolved with every release; however, new ones appear. We traded some sync issues for API issues.

            Sorry for the inconvenience.

            • @FelipeFelop
              1•9 months ago

              I took this up with Lemmy devs and was pointed here: https://lemmy.ml/post/5711722 Where 0.19 was described and admins warned not to use it in production and to have backups due to it being unstable.

              • jgrim of SublinksOPMA
                2•9 months ago

                Yes, that came out later after we upgraded. We ran the latest tag, which wasn't stable (typically, that tag is), and included some 0.19 code. So, we were stuck moving forward. Lemmy doesn't roll back. So we either had to lose a week of content, users, etc, or keep moving forward with the latest version. The good news is some bugs are fixed.

          • jgrim of SublinksOPMA
            1•9 months ago

            Something could be done. We could fork 0.19 and restore the previous authentication methods. I don't have the time available to do that. If someone does it we'd be happy to run it.