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We are slowly getting closer to the 0.19 release, although there is still a lot of work left. Client developers should read this post with information about breaking changes to update their projects.
Edit: You can test the latest 0.19 code on voyager.lemmy.ml, or by installing 0.19.0-beta.8 on your server. Be sure to report any bugs on Github.
@nutomic has closed over 100 issues, most of them duplicates, invalid or already resolved ones. He also made numerous pull requests to fix minor bugs and implement small enhancements. This includes a bug fix for federation of admin actions which was released as 0.18.5. He is also changing the way HTML escaping is handled to avoid broken texts.
@dessalines is working on redesigning the join-lemmy.org website, adding the apps and instances pages. Also worked on rewriting the Docker images to use Debian as base instead of Alpine. Additionally he is adding support for new backend features to lemmy-ui (scaled search and cursor-based pagination).
@SleeplessOne1917 has implemented support for new block instance feature, finished implementing the remote follow feature, and updated 2-Factor-Auth to account for a backend rework. He also implemented some bug fixes. He has also been working on adding authentication to lemmy-ui-leptos.
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With the authentication header update, isn’t usual best practice to support both on the server side simultaneously, and set a deprecation window such that clients can update over time?
In this case it would be too complicated to keep supporting the old auth format. Plus we want clients to update soon because sending auth parameters in the url is not secure. Anyway clients can support 0.18 and 0.19 at the same time by sending both old and new auth params at the same time.
“Too complicated” feels like a cop out… there’s no question as to whether or not clients can send both, from best practice point of view, the party instilling the change should bore the burden of supporting both for some time. I cannot and do not want to change the current release train, but I hope you can take this into consideration into the future, for future breaking changes.
Apparently that is mostly possible client side. Photon already supports both, and Voyager with the latest release, but with some caveats.
I’m not asking about whether or not clients can do it, there’s no doubt a dual outbound header method is possible, but rather more about general development best practices. When instilling a change, isn’t it usually best to support both states to ensure least amount of users are immediately affected, and gradually bleed those stragglers out?