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.

  • 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
      2·
      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.