Some bigger instances like lemmy.ml, lemm.ee, lemmy.ca, programming.dev, lemmy.dbzer0.com, aussie.zone, etc have now updated to 0.19, and after an issue was solved leading to 0.19.1, there don’t seem to be further issues.

I have done a trial run at updating Lemmy.nz to 0.19.1, and it went well. Therefore I am planning on updating Lemmy.nz to 0.19.1 starting around 7pm NZDT tonight (when this post is 5 hours old).

The release notes can be read here. There are lots of mostly little changes. I’ll do more of a summary after the update is completed.

Things to know:

• All going well, there will be an outage of approx 30 mins starting at 7pm tonight
• If things don’t go well, there may be a further outage
• Lemmy 0.19 has breaking changes, the key impact of this is that old lemmy apps that haven’t been updated in the last month or two are likely to break as they won’t have had the lemmy changes incorporated.
• Lemmy caches the website - after the update you will most likely have to clear your browser cache to get the new version, otherwise it won’t be able to communicate with the server. The easiest way is to click the browser refresh button while holding SHIFT. On mobile you may be able to do the same by long-pressing the refresh button in the menu.

Any objections, now is the time to speak up!

Any questions, feel free to ask!

Update: It seems there are still serious federation issues! The original github issue has been reopened and some sites are having many issues. So let’s hang tight a bit longer.