Hello sh.itjust.works community,

It’s been a while since my last update, and I owe you all a more detailed one soon. However, today I’m here to give you a heads-up about the upcoming upgrade.

Over the next 7 days, I’ll be upgrading the instance to v19.5. While this update doesn’t strictly require it, I’ve decided to take this opportunity to upgrade our Postgres database from version 15 to 16 as well. This process can be time-consuming and have take up to 2 hours to complete on other instance.

I’m optimistic that we’ll complete it in less time, but to err on the side of caution, I’ve scheduled the maintenance window for 120 minutes.

To minimize downtime, I’ve split the upgrade into two phases: Phase one will cover the database update, and Phase two will handle the Lemmy code upgrade.

Note: If the database upgrade is completed in under 60 minutes, I’ll proceed with the Lemmy code upgrade during the same maintenance window.

Here’s the tentative timeline:

Task Date Expected Downtime
Upgrade of Postgres Database Friday September 20 2024 @ 8:00PM ET 60-120 Minutes
Upgrade to V19.5 Monday or Tuesday September 23 or 24 @ 8:00PM ET Up to 30 Minutes

During these two planned events those who want to provide moral support or who want to get periodic updates are more than welcome to join us on our matrix channel

edit: 9:23EDT - Hey all, the database and lemmy codebase has been upgraded to v19.5. The database upgrade took a lot less time than expected so I went right into upgrading the codebase. A whole bunch of background tasks are still running which might make your experience slower than usual. Things should be back to normal in the next couple of hours.

  • hydrashokEnglish
    31·
    3 months ago

    Thanks, TheDude! Hope all goes well and you’re able to relax and enjoy your Friday night!

  • threelonmusketeersEnglish
    10·
    3 months ago

    Awesome! Thanks, Dude! Keep us posted!

    Do let us know when we can donate as well. While I appreciate your continued generosity, I would feel more confident in the long-term future of the server if the financial costs were decentralized a bit. It would be nice to know that the future costs are covered for the next x months/years.

    • TheDudeOPMAEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      Absolutely. This is exactly why It’s important that we get a donation strategy put into place sooner rather than later.

  • sugar_in_your_tea
    10·
    3 months ago

    Awesome!

    Is there a way to throw money at you yet? Moral support is nice, but cold, hard cash is hopefully also appreciated. If that’s a thing, point me in the right direction and you’ll have a little pick-me-up this weekend.

  • nehal3m
    8·
    3 months ago

    Hey thanks for all the effort that you’re putting into this dude. You don’t owe us anything, we owe you.

  • iUseTc
    6·
    3 months ago

    Thank you for your good work. I would appreciate having the dates in UTC or relative to it as well, because I don’t know what “ET” is.

  • sir_pronoun@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    3 months ago

    At first I thought this meant “Social Justice Warriors” updated and I thought, oh, they were all bots by trolls and it kind of made sense.

  • Draconic NEO
    3·
    3 months ago

    If the instance updated how come it still says 0.19.3 in the web client?

    Cleared cookies and it’s now showing the updated version number and version features.

  • brbpostingEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    SJW server best server

    Dude best dude

    Thank you!!

  • Thelie
    2·
    3 months ago

    I’m looking forward to the new version, thanks for doing all this work and I hope the update goes well :)