No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world Papanca @lemmy.world 1y ago

How would i know when Lemmy has updated?

I learned that the next update will be early this week and version 18.0 is going to be skipped. But apart from users telling everyone that it has been updated, is there a way to check for yourself which version it is? Like an 'about Lemmy' or something?

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At the bottom of the page, it says something like "BE 0.17.4". BE means BackEnd, in this case that would be Lemmy.
At the bottom of every lemmy page you can see the server version and UI version used by the instance. On the github releases page you can follow the server releases. For the UI there aren't releases, but the versions are tagged so you can follow that. Hope this helps!
- Thank you, i should have thought of scrolling to the bottom :-) And thank you for the link to the releases page, very helpful!
To see what version your instance is on, scroll to the very bottom of the page on web. To see what the latest released version is (that your instance may not have updated to yet), visit https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/releases.
- Thanks!
The software will get “released”. You can check this on github: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/RELEASES.md

Each instance will update when they update. You can see your instances version by scrolling to the very bottom of a static page. It’s the number after BE:

You can check other instances by clicking instances (updated daily on each instance) or go to: https://the-federation.info/platform/73
- How does that work if you install Lemmy in a docker, do I not have to manually change the docker image to the new one?
  
  I'm trying to install Lemmy and I am confused on how to configure the docker images for starters :-)
  
  For docker images, you run something like https://github.com/crazy-max/diun to get notified when a new version is available
  
  You do have to manually change the image tag. That's how it works.
  
  Or you can set it to :latest tag and keep recreating the container occasionally, but that's not recommended.
Another way you can check is using FediDB. Just search the server you are curious about and it will tell you the software and its version. Also a good way to see other interesting stats about the instance.
my follow up question would be, how do insurance owners know when and whether they want to upgrade? like i saw chatter about 0.18 being shunned for an issue but 0.18.1 being well anticipated.
- I think 'we' as users don't choose to upgrade, like we would for an app. Just like reddit can implement things. And 0.18 is not being shunned by users; the developers themselves found that implementing this version would have major security issues, if i recall correctly, so they decided to skip it and work on a fix and release that one.
Install Jerboa on your phone. Once it stops working, that means Lemmy has been updated.
- v0.18 release had breaking changes, it won't be true every time.
When I look at all and sort by new it pushes posts down like I'm in a twitch chat with hundreds of people replying.

Someone told me the latest update makes that not happen, so that's one way to know.

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