Lemmy.world is now upgraded to 0.18.1-rc.1, with the lemmy-ui at 0.18.0.

Why we upgraded to a RC instead of wait for the stable version? Because of the many issues with streaming that many users complained about, and the fact that Jerboa app stopped working for 0.17.4.

Also we are troubleshooting federation issues, for which the upgrade is a step to see if that solves part of it, and makes troubleshooting easier.

Old message: We’ve upgraded lemmy.world to 0.18.1-rc.1 and rolled back that upgrade because of issues.

(If you had posted anything in those 10 minutes between upgrade and rollback, that post is gone. Sorry!)

The main issue we saw is that users can’t login anymore. Existing sessions still worked, but new logins failed (from macos, ios and android. From linux and windows it worked)

Also new account creation didn’t work.

I’ll create an issue for the devs and retry once it’s fixed.

  • FollyDolly@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    After the update I can no longer log in or interact with Jerboa. Hopefully y’all resolve this soon, as I am really digging Jerboa, but thanks for letting us know what’s going on, and keeping up the good work.

    • jetsetdorito@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I’ve been using Jerboa since I joined a few weeks ago, I haven’t been liking any of the other clients so far, but today I tried thunder and I’m enjoying it more than Jerboa

    • T156@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      There’s a major breaking change in the 0.18 update (moving away from Websockets for posts and comments), that means that older Jerboa builds no longer work with instances on, or past, that version, and newer Jerboa builds won’t work with servers older than 0.18.

      • Dran@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Version fracturing is probably going to be a fact of life on a decentralized platform like lemmy, a “good” app should probably handle cases for the latest few revisions instead of just the latest.

        • JonnyJ@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          I’m sure it will eventually, but early stage tech needs some allowances while they handle growth and scale. Better to break stuff now than be hamstrung by tech debt years later

        • T156@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          It normally would, it’s just that 0.18 is a breaking change, incorporating a major rewrite of how posts and comments work on Lemmy.