Lemmy 0.19.0-rc.4 and Development Update - 2023-11-03
Here is our regular update that explains what we have been working on for the past two weeks. This should allow average users to keep up with development, without reading Github comments or knowing how to program.
We are also readying another release candidate 0.19.0-rc.4. As usual it is available for testing on voyager.lemmy.ml and by installing the Docker image on your server. There are no breaking changes this time as we are preparing for the final release. It has been one month since we announced the major breaking changes for 0.19. In that sense we would like to know from developers of Lemmy clients and frontends if their projects are ready for 0.19, as we are planning to release it within the next weeks. There is no specific release date, but we will first update lemmy.ml to a release candidate, and if it works well publish the new release shortly after.
@phiresky is extending the /api/v3/site/federated_instances endpoint to include error count and time of last successful send for each linked instance. This will allow determining the exact state of federation between all instances.
@dessalines and @nutomic are working full-time on Lemmy to integrate community contributions, fix bugs, optimize performance and much more. This work is funded exclusively through donations.
If you like using Lemmy, and want to make sure that we will always be available to work full time building it, consider donating to support its development. Recurring donations are ideal because they allow for long-term planning. But also one-time donations of any amount help us.
Tesseract is ready, though current release is still in backwards-compatible mode for 0.18.x (none of the new 0.19 API features are enabled, but all primary functionality is tested against 0.19.0).
However, it does have issues with the /comment/report/list and /post/report/list endpoints as well as /user/report_count. However, those are also throwing the same HTTP 400 errors as with Lemmy-UI 0.19.0-rc.4 (tested against voyager.lemmy.ml).
The first two throw a 400 with the error not_an_admin even though I am moderating a community.
My partner also reports the Mlem chokes completely on 0.19's JSON response. I suspect fields were added and it's not coded to ignore extra fields when deserializing. I haven't confirmed it's still present on rc4, I'll update my instance and report back. Edit: confirm Mlem still doesn't work even with the proxy hack. Without the hack it can't authenticate at all. Latest git main branch might, this is based on the 1.1 current release which is about a month old.
In that sense we would like to know from developers of Lemmy clients and frontends if their projects are ready for 0.19, as we are planning to release it within the next weeks.