Since our last release in April, we’ve had ~80 commits to Lemmy.

Lemmy Server

Major Changes

Note: Issue links are below.

• @nutomic did a major rewrite of the federation code. It is much simpler now, and reduced from 8000 lines of code to 6400. Functionality is mostly the same, but future changes will be much easier.
• You can now block users and communities, and their posts / comments won’t show up in your feed.
• Removed IFramely: Lemmy can now fetch site metadata on its own.
• New API docs at: https://join-lemmy.org/api

General

• Fix prod deploy script and clippy (#1724)
• Fix image uploads. Fixes #1725 (#1734)
• Adding more site setup vars. Fixes #678 (#1718)
• Dont append ? to url when cleaning it (#1716)
• User / community blocking. Fixes #426 (#1604)
• Swap out iframely (#1706)
• Adding ModTransferCommunity to modlog in API. Fixes #1437
• Make sure bots aren’t included in aggregate counts (#1705)
• Don’t allow deleted users to do actions. Fixes #1656 (#1704)
• When banning a user, remove communities they’ve created (#1700)
• Distribute Lemmy via crates.io
• Simplify config using macros (#1686)
• Simplify lemmy_context() function (dont return errors)
• Blank out extra info for deleted or removed content. Fixes #1679 (#1680)
• Add show_new_posts_notifs setting. Fixes #1664 (#1665)
• Adding shortname fetching for users and communities. Fixes #1662 (#1663)
• Upgrading deps, running clippy fix on nightly 1.55.0 (#1638)
• Running clippy --fix (#1647)
• Make captcha case-insensitive
• Remove tracking params from post url (fixes #768)
• Fix IPv6 port setup for Nginx (#1636)
• Fix --cert-name for certbot. (#1631)
• Change join.lemmy.ml to join-lemmy.org (#1628)
• Upgrade pictrs. Fixes #1599 (#1600)
• Invalidate current logins on account deletion. Fixes #1602 (#1603)
• Upgrading api test deps (#1608)
• Fix nsfw posts showing for non-logged in users. Fixes #1614 (#1615)
• Add additional slurs configuration option. Closes #1464. (#1612)
• Updating to rust 1.51.0 (#1598)
• Remove brotli, zstd dependencies for faster compilation

API

• A full list of the API changes can be seen on this diff of lemmy-js-client: 0.11.0 -> 0.12.0 .

Federation

• Move resolving of activitypub objects to separate api endpoint (fixes #1584)
• Rewrite remaining activities (#1712)
• Migrate comment inReplyTo field to single value (ref #1454)
• Fix issue with protocol string in actor id generation (#1668)

Lemmy UI

• Integrating resolve_user into search. (#377)
• Add lazy loading of images. Fixes #329 (#379)
• Adding vi, sk, mnc, and cy languages. (#378)
• Feature/user community block (#362)
• Swapping out iframely. (#374)
• Adding mod transfer community (#373)
• Remove content more (#372)
• Scroll to comments on post’s x comments button (#312)
• Remove websocket connection messages. Fixes #355
• Center spinner, make smaller. Fixes #203
• Fix font issues. Fixes #354
• Have setting to disable notifs for new posts. Fixes #132 (#345)
• Remove max length constraints on actors. Fixes #350 (#351)
• Fix captcha replay bug. Fixes #348 (#349)
• Removing community and user routes in favor of shortnames. Fixes #317 (#343)
• Don’t use default subscribed for communities page.
• Adding Listing type to communities page, default local. #190 (#342)
• Fix language bug on mobile browsers
• Collapse sidebar on mobile. Fixes #335 (#340)
• Re-organized components folder. (#339)
• Fixing too many large spinners (#337)
• Moving comment link to top bar. Fixes #307 (#336)
• Fix/ws error messages (#334)
• Make spinner bigger. Fixes #203
• Fix preview description html. Fixes #110
• Always show previous paginator, extract paginator component.
• Use better comment collapse icon, and add text. Fixes #318
• Fix symbols issue. Fixes #319
• Don’t restore scroll position on page refresh. Fixes #186
• Insert triple backticks for ‘code’ button when multiple lines are selected. (#311)
• Change join.lemmy-ui.ml to join-lemmy-ui.org
• Adding a comment here placeholder. Fixes #301
• Fix non-local community and person links. Fixes #290
• Fix navbar bug. Fixes #289
• Hide names of mods / admins without priveleges. Fixes #285
• Adding URL search type. Fixes #286
• Add a link to joinlemmy-ui on lemmy-ui.ml signup. Fixes #235
• Fix duped site description. Fixes #281

Upgrade notes

Servers

You may need to add this to your lemmy.hjson:

pictrs_url: "http://pictrs:8080"

If you’d like to make a DB backup before upgrading, follow this guide.

To upgrade your instance to v0.12.0, simply follow the instructions in the documentation:

• Upgrade with manual Docker installation
• Upgrade with Ansible installation

Clients / Apps

• A full list of the API changes can be seen on this diff of lemmy-js-client: 0.11.0 -> 0.12.0 .