It seems most instances still use version 0.19.3 and the only one using the up-to-date version is lemmy.ml. They used to update relatively fast. What’s changed?
Given how long it took to fix the federation issues back in december (0.19 update), I’d be hesitant about updating, too.
Given how long it took to fix the federation issues back in december (0.19 update), I’d be hesitant about updating, too.
But you’re on a 0.19.5 instance. Do you experience issues? There’s some incompatibility with Mastodon, apparently, but given that 0.19.5 addresses serious privacy issues and has been out for a while without big problems, the privacy fixes are more important than keeping 100% Mastodon compatibility. Surely 0.19.6 will be out soon enough to address them.
At least I personally have not seen any issues in this current release.
What are you looking at because the instance list shows lemmy.ml using a Beta version, and isn’t the only one.
Dozens are using 19.5 which appears to be the latest stable version. Consider a couple of recent stable versions caused a lot of headaches for users and admins I think waiting to see if a newer ‘stable’ version is actually stable, let alone volunteering to test experimental versions in situ is prudent.
Just counted: 6 of the top 10 instances use 0.19.5 or newer. Source: lemmyverse.net with default sorting
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Not true.
Could have sworn I saw a posting saying something to that effect. My bad.
you may have been thinking of https://poliverso.org/objects/0477a01e-1166-c773-5a67-70e129601762, which was neither lemmy devs, mastodon devs nor lemmy.world admins
That was it. Thanks.
We also upgraded fairly quickly and aside from some annoyances with the new image caching it’s not worse than 0.19.3, so relatively speaking this was a good upgrade.
Lemmy.zip is on 0.19.5
Why did the Lemmy instances stopped upgrading the version they use?
They’ve done prod deployments in real life before and hence no longer believe in CD?
I wait a few days or so to see if they’re planning on an emergency release to fix new bugs they didn’t catch but I’ve found upgrading fairly easy, though I have a dedicated and fairly bog standard install and a smaller instance.
0.19.4 requires upgrading Postgres (and exporting/importing the database to the new version).
I just don’t have time for that right now since my Postgres DB is on a dedicated machine and is shared with a few other active services.
They make breaking changes like that in patch releases?? Do they not follow semver?
The lemmy devs are not exactly industry developers.
Hell, they don’t even respect gpdr, and one day the EU is going to wreck an instance and maybe an admin too if they didn’t separate liability properly.
Technically this is entirely within semver since it’s 0.x.y.
- Anything can change while major version is zero
- Technically, semver only tracks public API changes
And Lemmy.ml is managed by one of the devs. And because this instance ist rather self entitled, they don’t care about bugs that much
Wait we don’t care about bugs because we’re self entitled? Gonna need to elaborate on how that one works for me.
Pretty sure they’re talking about the devs, not the users
edit: still kind of weird tho
The admins of your instance defend the right of governments to drive over protestors with tanks and that comment is upsetting?
I haven’t seen a single admin who’s supported the junta fighting student protesters by ramming a tank through their barricades. If you’re taking about another, more publicized event I suggest you watch the rest of the footage.
Let me know if you can find the timestamp where it happens
Also the comment wasn’t upsetting, it was confusing.
