RuudJun 28, 2023

Update to 0.18.1-rc.1 tried and rolled back

https://lemmy.world/post/744421

Update to 0.18.1-rc.1 tried and rolled back - Lemmy.world

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.

Show threadMachefiJun 28, 2023
Just curious, why are we updating now instead of waiting for the proper 0.18.1 release?
Show threadaxzxc1236Jun 28, 2023

Reasons I can think of:

  • The official Android client for lemmy, Jerboa, only supports 0.18 and later, unless users download older version from github and sideload manually.

  • Sorting is broken pre 0.18, new posts keeps flowing in.

  • Performance improvement by removing web socket from lemmy. (which fixes 2, which is why 1. happens)

    • Show threadJdWJun 28, 2023
    Jerboa works fine with lemmy world, it just gives a warning and crashes on occasion. Not an issue to use it though.
    Show threadinverimus
    As a new user I tried logging in on Jerboa and it says the server must be on 0.18 and refuses the login.
    Jun 28, 2023 at 6:09pmWeb