v0.6.0 is here, and we’ve closed 41 issues!

This is the biggest release by far:

• Avatars!
• Optional Email notifications for username mentions, post and comment replies.
• Ability to change your password and email address.
• Can set a custom language.
• Lemmy-wide settings to disable downvotes, and close registration.
• A better documentation system, hosted in lemmy itself.
• Huge DB performance gains (everthing down to < 30ms) by using materialized views.
• Fixed major issue with similar post URL and title searching.
• Upgraded to Actix 2.0
• Faster comment / post voting.
• Better small screen support.
• Lots of bug fixes, refactoring of back end code.

Another major announcement is that Lemmy now has another lead developer besides me, @felix@radical.town. Theyve created a better documentation system, implemented RSS feeds, simplified docker and project configs, upgraded actix, working on federation, a whole lot more.

https://dev.lemmy.ml