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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by lwadmin@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

Version 0.19.X Deployment

Hello world!

I'm sure many of you fine folks have been wondering why we have not upgraded to version 0.19.X yet.

The whole team here has been getting asked this question quite a bit, from both members of the community and other instance admins. We want everyone to know, YES, we will upgrade to version 0.19.

We do not have a hard date set for when we will be upgrading as of yet, as we have about 7 associated task items that go along with this upgrade for things we need to double-check and confirm there will be no breakage.

Another big reason why we have not upgraded is due to reports from other instance admins that the front-end GUI can have performance issues. While a large portion of folks access our site using apps on their phones, we would rather not degrade the user experience for the rest of everyone else.

Worst case in terms of UI slowness, we would ask everyone to use either Alexandrite () or Photon () to mitigate the potential performance issues.

One final point to mention to address the delay is that we usually wait 1-2 weeks after a new release before applying it to production. This was complicated by the fact that there were multiple releases right after each other, with each new release having issues we hoped would be patched in the NEXT version. A new version would come up, and we would have to evaluate the stability and performance of it, which would take about 2 weeks, and then ANOTHER version would come out, which we would need to test. This was further complicated by the fact this was during the holiday season.

Version Release Date
0.19.0 2023-12-15
0.19.1 2023-12-20
0.19.2 2024-01-10
0.19.3 2024-01-24

For us, stability is paramount, as we care very much about keeping everyone happy here.

While we can appreciate the rapid release of patches on 0.19, I hope everyone can now understand the delay. If all goes well, we will set a release day in the next week or two, most likely on a Saturday around 1800 UTC.

-jelloeater85

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[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Neat. Good to see constant improvement.

Unrelated: What ever happened to the weekly LW community spotlight? It hasn’t been updated in like a month

[-] Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

The admin that organized that has left the team. I’m the new solo-lead for the community team, and will try to get that started again soon. Any suggestions for communities are more than welcome!

[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

That makes sense. I was just wondering, since spotlight seemed like such a good idea on rollout.

As for communities, I’m way deeper into the hobby side of lemmy. Showing off

!battletech@lemmy.world

!warhammer40k@lemmy.world

or

!star_wars@lemmy.world

would all personally be great to me.

[-] Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Just posted the new spotlight, thank you for reminding me (:

[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Wow! Fast. Thanks so much for taking over and doing all the admin-y things!

this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2024
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