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.

  • yamaonanEnglish
    41·
    1 year ago

    Has anyone experienced trouble logging in through Jerboa app? Jerboa crashes every time I try to log into this instance, but other instances log in fine.

    • pixelscriptEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Creators of Lemmy, owners of this instance, and creators of the Jerboa app are all the same people. As I understand it, Jerboa won’t be getting an update until they’re happy with the stability of the update to Lemmy itself. Lemmy is getting all the focus first. Also, no sense in pushing a client update for a server update that itself is not finished.

      Getting really annoyed at that error toast in Jerboa, though, not gonna lie. And not being able to post on mobile. At least I can still read posts and comments, though. Hopefully the patch will release soon.

      • el_abueloEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        Yeay this was the update that killed Jerboa for me.

        Now on Voyager which seems much nicer. And actually works.

        • pixelscriptEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Thank you for the suggestion of Voyager, I have installed it and it looks quite nice!

    • VladomoEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yes, the exact same was happening for me. Jerboa would crash and android would show me the notification “this app has a bug” whenever I tried to login. Now using Eternity for Lemmy and that is working smoothly.