In anticipation of Lemmy’s upcoming 0.19 release, and to work out any final issues, we’re going to deploy a test release on lemmy.ml within the next few days.
We’re doing this testing on lemmy.ml only, so that we can encounter any issues before the release, and to make sure the upgrade process is smooth for other production servers.
Some of the following will happen during the process:
- Apps will likely break (only for lemmy.ml)
- Lemmy.ml may experience some downtime for the upgrade to complete (ideally no more than an hour).
- If anything goes wrong, we may have to restore from a database backup, meaning content made in between backups may be lost.
If all goes well, we’ll have an official announcement for the release after this testing period.
I apologize for the difficulties this might cause. At most this will be a week of hair-pulling, but its vital that we catch any issues before telling other servers to upgrade.
Yeah the latest update gives you the ability to block instances outright, so if you’re an antifascist you can block all the .de instances and not have to deal with weird posts constantly showing up from there whenever you talk about the nazis.
I thought Germany had extra laws against fascist rhetoric. Does that not apply to websites with that domain?
It’s less “ok they overtly support the nazis” more “that’s weird, why would you bring that up?”
There will be a lot of instance purging, it seems! ╰(▔∀▔)╯