Today we spent some time preparing for the big upgrade, by kicking the Lemmy version up to 0.18.5, merging in the latest changes from lemmy-ansible git repository and cleaning up some disk space on the instance.
So tomorrow at 02.00 am Oregon time we will do the update to Lemmy 0.19.
This is 11.00 am CET for people in Europe.
Hopefully all goes well and we come out the other side with a nice new 0.19 version. Its supposed to take about 30 minutes of downtime if there are no issues to solve.
Wish us luck :)
IMPORTANT: You probably need to log out and log in again to be able to post anything since they reworked authentication in this release.
We are now on Lemmy 0.19.1 actually, not 0.19.
We noticed there was a critical bug fix for outgoing federation and decided to get that into the update also. It came out yesterday so instead of having another downtime, we decided to go directly to that version.
One of the most interesting features in this release is of course the ability for users to block instances. If you want to try that out, go to your Settings in the web interface (maybe its also supported on some mobile apps), and click the Blocks tab. Here you will see all kinds of blocking you can do:
Can be nice to clean up your feed from stuff you dont want to see.