Update 21:00 CEST: all services that had their home on this host have been moved and launched. !

Update 20:30 CEST: the linux container was launched on the new host. It is possible that some of you still cache the old IP address. Please be patient. **** tl;dr Surprise maintenance! It looks like it is once again time for some fresh hardware. Within the next hours (perhaps also tomorrow, depending on time among other things), you might experience a downtime of up to one to two hours due to Lemmy being moved to a new machine.

This is needed for more future proofing as well as making sure the current hardware is not about to die and forcing us to apply a backup.

This post will be updated as soon as there are any updates.

Old specs (about € 37.72 /month):

• i7-7700 CPU @ 3.60GHz
• 2x512 GB KXG50ZNV512G TOSHIBA Gen 3 in Software Raid
• 4x RAM 16384 MB DDR4
• 🇫🇮

Expected new specs (€ 76,16 € /month):

• Ryzen 7 7700
• 2x1 TB SAMSUNG MZVL21T0HCLR-00B00 (not that i was given a choice) Gen 4 in Software Raid
• 64 GB RAM
• 🇩🇪 (they would be few eur cheaper in helsinki but AX52 are out of stock)

Additional costs are involved – if in your budget and if you want to support this instance, feel welcome to donate at https://tchncs.de/donate :)

****

Right now. both of the servers drives report 255% used. I have already received this machine in the unluckly state of equally (and much) used NVMe's... and there is some promising iowait going on, making me worry.

It's not just the very unfortunate and (as i had to learn by actually losing drives upon reboot) dangerous state of the drives, but also the fact that the i7-7700 seems a bit overwhelmed with the load from Lemmy and Firefish.

Another thing I am not (yet) sure about is whether the 64G memory are actually sufficient... Total virtual memory: 61.74% - 38.6 GiB of 62.6 GiB RAM: 61.74% - 38.6 GiB of 62.6 GiB Committed: 65.29% - 40.9 GiB of 62.6 GiB virtual memory Commit Limit: 50.00% - 31.3 GiB of 62.6 GiB virtual memory Shared memory: 17.05% - 10.7 GiB of 62.6 GiB RAM Page tables: 3.15% - 1.97 GiB of 62.6 GiB RAM Disk Writeback: <0.01% - 2.42 MiB of 62.6 GiB RAM RAM available: 20.10% free - 12.6 GiB of 62.6 GiB Hardware Corrupted: 0% - 0 B of 62.6 GiB RAM This is fine'ish but not sure for how long. Maybe for now I wait with upgrading the memory... – on the other hand... why not give some room for even more database tweaking perhaps?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17053861

> ## What is Lemmy? > > Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top. > > ## Changes > > This is a smaller bugfix release, with the following changes: > > ### Lemmy > > - Don't change encoding style in clean_url_params. > - Fix for federation last_successful_id. > - Fixing featured_local trigger. > - Fix postres TLS connection. > > ### Lemmy-UI > > - Fix for fetch page title. > - Fix create post focus resets. > - Make media uploads viewable only on your own profile. > - Fixing an auto-download bug. > - Regenerating lemmy-ui themes. > > ### Full Changelog > > - Lemmy Backend > - Lemmy-UI > > ## Upgrade instructions > > Follow the upgrade instructions for ansible or docker. > > If you need help with the upgrade, you can ask in our support forum or on the Matrix Chat. > > ## Thanks to everyone > > We'd like to thank our many contributors and users of Lemmy for coding, translating, testing, and helping find and fix bugs. We're glad many people find it useful and enjoyable enough to contribute. > > ## Support development > > We (@dessalines and @nutomic) have been working full-time on Lemmy for over three years. This is largely thanks to support from NLnet foundation, as well as donations from individual users. > > 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. A recurring donation is the best way to ensure that open-source software like Lemmy can stay independent and alive, and helps us grow our little developer co-op to support more full-time developers. > > - Liberapay (preferred option) > - Open Collective > - Patreon > - Cryptocurrency (scroll to bottom of page)

Well hello there, I hope you are having a good time and that apart from the shaky recent update, discuss.tchncs.de serves you well! 🚀

> ### tl;dr > tchncs is doing wonderfully in terms of donations, but I have reason to worry about an ongoing decline. Please don't feel pressured but if some of you would help looking out that it doesn't fall below a certain threshold, that'd be amazing. :)

Many of you are already using tchncs services elsewhere, but for those of you who are new, I'd like to briefly mention that this service is powered by donations of its users. By donating a small monthly fee, you ensure that I will be able to keep paying for the infrastructure and its upgrades, as well as investing my time, trying to keep the thing rolling.

Donating is 100% voluntary and not each and every one of you need to do it – also for now, there is no critical need for new donors.

If that's the case, why am I even pointing this out?

For a couple of months, our dear Elon (and later /u/spez) gave us not only waves of new users, but also motivated them / existing users to boost donations quite a bit. In fact, it is kinda unreal how much you kind people have donated to tchncs over the time.

The server-costs have increased and unlikely will go down soon again. Even tho it happened before, the past month was quite weak compared to the previous trend. Of course it is still much more than many most fediverse admins sadly have to deal with(!), but also this month started weaker than usual and I worry that this time it might become a new trend.

At tchncs.de/donate, I give you (maybe too) deep insights about the tchncs funding situation. Here you have what I just wrote as a screenshot:

There is also tracked workhours on the site and together they even form dynamic goals with some hacky bash scripts. 😁

So what do I ask for?!

If, and only if you can afford it and if you really want to, please consider checking from time to time as to whether tchncs currently achieves goal #1 and ideally goal #2 (hw upgrades). It is important to keep a buffer for new hardware. And if not needed for new hardware, you are helping your fellow admin (me) with day to day expenses and ideally, savings for bad times.

...so that's all, this got longer than anticipated, sorry for that. Please do not feel pressured, as of now it's all fine. Just trying to make sure it stays this way. ✌

This time no crosspost of the original statement in [email protected] because somehow the content is lost as I select the community 😅 I hope that this is just a small bug and that otherwise everything is healthy. Image proxying is not in place yet. I will have a closer look at the now possible setup changes soon™.

Enjoy! 🍺

Normally I do not shut down services in order to perform updates, but the new Lemmy release requires a newer version of the PostgreSQL database server, which in turn requires a migration of the very cluster. If nothing special is hindering it (this happened with the Synapse Matrix server recently), this will be done quite quickly by just linking to the newer Postgres version (this is a feature of Postgres itself), otherwise it might take an hour or two.

This will also affect the Firefish microblogging instance under https://procial.tchncs.de

Adjustments and updates are planned to the pict-rs instance (this is the software Lemmy uses in the background for handling media). I will need to stop it for a few minutes. Lemmy itself is expected to run without any interruption – without the media tho. 😉

Don't worry, if everything goes to plan, it will be done very swiftly. 🚀

geteilt von: https://lemmy.ml/post/10890345

> cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/10890295 > > > ## What is Lemmy? > > > > Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top. > > > > ## Major Changes > > > > - Fixed lemmy-ui error page bug by @Sleepless in https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/2302 > > - Fix bug with Mastodon undo follow activities by @Nutomic in https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4364 > > - Count chars, not bytes for max title length (fixes #4366) by @Nutomic in https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4367 > > - Mark instance as alive after successful activity send (fixes #4039) by @Nutomic in https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4377 > > - Dont allow caching captcha response by @Nutomic in https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4381 > > - Revert "Dont ignore errors during login (fixes #4319) (#4321)" by @Nutomic in https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4380 > > - Removing group from woodpecker, as its deprecated. by @dessalines in https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4387 > > - Add secondary sort by published date for post view (fixes #4383) by @Nutomic in https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4384 > > > > ## Upgrade instructions > > > > Follow the upgrade instructions for ansible or docker. > > > > If you need help with the upgrade, you can ask in our support forum or on the Matrix Chat. > > > > ## Thanks to everyone > > > > We'd like to thank our many contributors and users of Lemmy for coding, translating, testing, and helping find and fix bugs. We're glad many people find it useful and enjoyable enough to contribute. > > > > ## Support development > > > > We (@dessalines and @nutomic) have been working full-time on Lemmy for over three years. This is largely thanks to support from NLnet foundation, as well as donations from individual users. > > > > 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. A recurring donation is the best way to ensure that open-source software like Lemmy can stay independent and alive. > > > > - Liberapay (preferred option) > > - Open Collective > > - Patreon > > - Cryptocurrency (scroll to bottom of page) > >

geteilt von: https://lemmy.ml/post/10364369

> cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/10364367 > > > ## What is Lemmy? > > > > Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top. > > > > ## Major Changes > > > > - Outgoing federation bug fixes. > > - Lemmy can now receive reports sent from Mastodon and Kbin. > > - Added the ability for admins to view votes, to prevent downvote trolling. Demo. #4088 > > - Various bug fixes and minor enhancements. > > > > ## Upgrade instructions > > > > Follow the upgrade instructions for ansible or docker. > > > > If you need help with the upgrade, you can ask in our support forum or on the Matrix Chat. > > > > ## Thanks to everyone > > > > We'd like to thank our many contributors and users of Lemmy for coding, translating, testing, and helping find and fix bugs. We're glad many people find it useful and enjoyable enough to contribute. > > > > ## Support development > > > > We (@dessalines and @nutomic) have been working full-time on Lemmy for over three years. This is largely thanks to support from NLnet foundation, as well as donations from individual users. > > > > 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. A recurring donation is the best way to ensure that open-source software like Lemmy can stay independent and alive. > > > > - Liberapay (preferred option) > > - Open Collective > > - Patreon > > - Cryptocurrency (scroll to bottom of page) > >

Crossgeposted von: https://lemmy.ml/post/9559891

> cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/9559890 > > > ## What is Lemmy? > > > > Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top. > > > > ## Major Changes > > > > 0.19.0 has a critical bug where sending outgoing activities can stop working. The bug is fixed in this version. It also fixes the "hide read posts" user setting, fixes a problem with invalid comment paths, and another fix for private message reports. > > > > ## Upgrade instructions > > > > Follow the upgrade instructions for ansible or docker. The upgrade should take less than 30 minutes. > > > > If you need help with the upgrade, you can ask in our support forum or on the Matrix Chat. > > > > ## Thanks to everyone > > > > We'd like to thank our many contributors and users of Lemmy for coding, translating, testing, and helping find and fix bugs. We're glad many people find it useful and enjoyable enough to contribute. > > > > ## Support development > > > > We (@dessalines and @nutomic) have been working full-time on Lemmy for over three years. This is largely thanks to support from NLnet foundation, as well as donations from individual users. > > > > This month we are running a funding drive with the goal of increasing recurring donations from currently €4.000 to at least €12.000. With this amount @dessalines and @nutomic can each receive a yearly salary of €50.000 which is in line with median developer salaries. It will also allow one additional developer to work fulltime on Lemmy and speed up development. > > > > Read more details in the funding drive announcement.

Crossgeposted von: https://lemmy.ml/post/9347983

> ## What is Lemmy? > > Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top. > > ## Major Changes > > This release is very large with almost 400 commits since 0.18.5. As such we can only give a general overview of the major changes in this post, and without going into detail. For more information, read the full changelog and linked issues at the bottom of this post. > > ### Improved Post Ranking > > There is a new scaled sort which takes into account the number of active users in a community, and boosts posts from less-active communities to the top. Additionally there is a new controversial sort which brings posts and comments to the top that have similar amounts of upvotes and downvotes. Lemmy's sorts are detailed here. > > ### Instance Blocks for Users > > Users can now block instances. Similar to community blocks, it means that any posts from communities which are hosted on that instance are hidden. However the block doesn't affect users from the blocked instance, their posts and comments can still be seen normally in other communities. > > ### Two-Factor-Auth Rework > > Previously 2FA was enabled in a single step which made it easy to lock yourself out. This is now fixed by using a two-step process, where the secret is generated first, and then 2FA is enabled by entering a valid 2FA token. It also fixes the problem where 2FA can be disabled without passing any 2FA token. As part of this change, 2FA is disabled for all users. This allows users who are locked out to get into their account again. > > ### New Federation Queue > > Outgoing federation actions are processed through a new persistent queue. This means that actions don't get lost if Lemmy is restarted. It is also much more performant, with separate senders for each target instance. This avoids problems when instances are unreachable. Additionally it supports horizontal scaling across different servers. The endpoint /api/v3/federated_instances contains details about federation state of each remote instance. > > ### Remote Follow > > Another new feature is support for remote follow. When browsing another instance where you don't have an account, you can click the subscribe button and enter the domain of your home instance in the popup dialog. It will automatically redirect you to your home instance where it fetches the community and presents a subscribe button. Here is a video showing how it works. > > ### Authentication via Header or Cookie > > Previous Lemmy versions used to send authentication tokens as part of the parameters. This was a leftover from websocket, which doesn't have any separate fields for this purpose. Now that we are using HTTP, authentication can finally be passed via jwt cookie or via header Authorization: Bearer <jwt>. The old authentication method is not supported anymore to simplify maintenance. A major benefit of this change is that Lemmy can now send cache-control headers depending on authentication state. API responses with login have cache-control: private, those without have cache-control: public, max-age=60. This means that responses can be cached in Nginx which reduces server load. > > ### Moderation > > Reports are now resolved automatically when the associated post/comment is marked as deleted. This reduces the amount of work for moderators. There is a new log for image uploads which stores uploader. For now it is used to delete all user uploads when an account is purged. Later the list can be used for other purposes and made available through the API. > > ### Cursor based pagination > > 0.19 adds support for cursor based pagination on the /api/v3/post/list endpoint. This is more efficient for the database. Instead of a query parameter ?page=3, listing responses now include a field "next_page": "Pa46c" which needs to be passed as ?page_cursor=Pa46c. The existing pagination method is still supported for backwards compatibility, but will be removed in the next version. > > ### User data export/import > > Users can now export their data (community follows, blocklists, profile settings), and import it again on another instance. This can be used for account migrations and also as a form of backup. The export format is designed to remain unchanged for a long time. You can make regular exports, and if the instance becomes unavailable, register a new account and import the data. This way you can continue using Lemmy seamlessly. > > ### Time zone handling > > Lemmy didn't have any support for timezones, which led to bugs when federating with other platforms. This is now fixed by using UTC timezone for all timestamps. > > ### ARM64 Support > > Thanks to help from @raskyld and @kroese, there are now offical Lemmy releases for ARM64 available. > > ### Activity now includes voters > > - Previously, site and community activity counts were only based on people who commented, or posted. Those counts now include anyone who voted on a comment or post as well. Thanks to @Ategon for this change. > > ## Upgrade instructions > > Follow the upgrade instructions for ansible or docker. The upgrade should take less than 30 minutes. > > If you need help with the upgrade, you can ask in our support forum or on the Matrix Chat. > > Pict-rs 0.5 is also close to releasing. The upgrade takes a while due to a database migration, so read the migration guide to speed it up. Note that Lemmy 0.19 still works perfectly with pict-rs 0.4. > > ## Thanks to everyone > > We'd like to thank our many contributors and users of Lemmy for coding, translating, testing, and helping find and fix bugs. We're glad many people find it useful and enjoyable enough to contribute. > > ## Support development > > We (@dessalines and @nutomic) have been working full-time on Lemmy for over three years. This is largely thanks to support from NLnet foundation, as well as donations from individual users. > > This month we are running a funding drive with the goal of increasing recurring donations from currently €4.000 to at least €12.000. With this amount @dessalines and @nutomic can each receive a yearly salary of €50.000 which is in line with median developer salaries. It will also allow one additional developer to work fulltime on Lemmy and speed up development. > > Read more details in the funding drive announcement.

Mobilizon is federated software in the same network as Lemmy (but with some intentional restrictions*), to help you organize your online or offline events!

The instance is now slowly opening its doors. For now, logins are restricted to our accountsystem at auth.tchncs.de but this might relax once a few things have been figured out.

At the end of january 2024, i might evaluate whether people are actually using that instance and if it makes sense to keep it online.

\* you may only follow groups, not individual accounts

Crossgeposted von: https://lemmy.ml/post/5712032

> cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/5712030 > > > ## What is Lemmy? > > > > Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top. > > > > ## Major Changes > > > > This release fixes a problem with federation of moderation actions performed by admin accounts. Specifically there is an check when receiving remote federation actions, which is incorrectly rejecting them in some cases. The problem is fixed by this release. > > > > There are no other changes, and no updated lemmy-ui version. > > > > ## Support development > > > > @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. No one likes recurring donations, but they’ve proven to be the only way that open-source software like Lemmy can stay independent and alive. > > > > - Liberapay (preferred option) > > - Open Collective > > - Patreon > > - Cryptocurrency (scroll to bottom of page) > > > > ## Upgrade instructions > > > > Follow the upgrade instructions for ansible or docker. There are no config or API changes with this release. > > > > If you need help with the upgrade, you can ask in our support forum or on the Matrix Chat. > > > > ## Changes > > > > ### Lemmy > > > > - Fix federation of admin actions (#3988) > >

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/3021118

> ## What is Lemmy? > > Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top. > > ## Major Changes > > This version fixes the problem of comment context not loading properly. It also fixes a couple other bugs. > > ## Support development > > @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. No one likes recurring donations, but they’ve proven to be the only way that open-source software like Lemmy can stay independent and alive. > > - Liberapay (preferred option) > - Open Collective > - Patreon > - Cryptocurrency (scroll to bottom of page) > > ## Upgrade instructions > > Follow the upgrade instructions for ansible or docker. There are no config or API changes with this release. > > If you need help with the upgrade, you can ask in our support forum or on the Matrix Chat.

As of deep last light (cest), the error was identified and tchncs started to inform other servers about the events they were missing out on. It wasn't processing one of the outgoing queues correctly due to a well hidden typo in a configfile – causing one of the federation senders not identifying itself correctly.

You may run into a few recent messages that can't be decrypted, but otherwise everything federation related should be back to normal.

Sorry about this mess and thanks to everybody who has helped in identifying the issue.

Well hello again, I have just learned that the host that recently had both nvme drives fail upon drive replacement, now has new problems: the filesystem report permanent data errors affecting the database of both, Matrix server and Telegram bridge.

I have just rented a new machine and am about to restore the database snapshot of the 26. of july, just in case. All the troubleshooting the recent days was very exhausting, however, i will try to do or at least prepare this within the upcoming hours.

!

Update

After a rescan the errors have gone away, however the drives logged errors too. It's now the question as to whether the data integrety should be trusted.

Status august 1st

Well ... good question... optimizations have been made last night, the restore was successful and ... we are back to debugging outgoing federation :( **** The new hardware also will be a bit more powerful... and yes, i have not forgotten that i wanted to update that database. It's just that i was busy debugging federation problems.

References

• federation issues after restore: https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16025
• why we had to restore initially: https://text.tchncs.de/tchncs/about-the-matrix-incident-on-july-26-2023

Just in case we have people here who could not see the infobox on the statuspage due to adblockers :)

Crossgeposted von: https://lemmy.ml/post/2540925

> cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/2540874 > > > ## What is Lemmy? > > > > Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top. > > > > ## Major Changes > > > > This version brings major optimizations to the database queries, which significantly reduces CPU usage. There is also a change to the way federation activities are stored, which reduces database size by around 80%. Special thanks to @phiresky for their work on DB optimizations. > > > > The federation code now includes a check for dead instances which is used when sending activities. This helps to reduce the amount of outgoing POST requests, and also reduce server load. > > > > In terms of security, Lemmy now performs HTML sanitization on all messages which are submitted through the API or received via federation. Together with the tightened content-security-policy from 0.18.2, cross-site scripting attacks are now much more difficult. > > > > Other than that, there are numerous bug fixes and minor enhancements. > > > > ## Support development > > > > @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. No one likes recurring donations, but they’ve proven to be the only way that open-source software like Lemmy can stay independent and alive. > > > > - Liberapay (preferred option) > > - Open Collective > > - Patreon > > - Cryptocurrency (scroll to bottom of page) > > > > ## Upgrade instructions > > > > Follow the upgrade instructions for ansible or docker. There are no config or API changes with this release. > > > > This upgrade takes ~5 minutes for the database migrations to complete. > > > > You may need to run sudo chown 1000:1000 lemmy.hjson if you have any permissions errors. > > > > If you need help with the upgrade, you can ask in our support forum or on the Matrix Chat. > >

This instance was updated a little while ago.

You might have heard of the recent security incident on some instances – that specific xss fix had been added to this instance in advance. However, there are no custom emojis yet, which was the source of that incident. But .... I'll likely add some soon. :)

Crossgeposted von: https://lemmy.ml/post/1808829

> ## What is Lemmy? > > Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top. > > ## Major Changes > > This release includes major improvements to performance, specifically optimizations of database queries. Special thanks to @phiresky, @ruud, @sunaurus and many others for investigating these. Additionally this version includes a fix for another cross-site scripting vulnerability. For these reasons instance admins should upgrade as soon as possible. > > As promised, captchas are supported again. And as usual there are countless bug fixes and minor improvements, many of them contributed by community members. > > ## Upgrade instructions > > Follow the upgrade instructions for ansible or docker. > > If you need help with the upgrade, you can ask in our support forum or on the Matrix Chat. > > ## Support development > > We (@dessalines and @nutomic) have been working full-time on Lemmy for almost three years. This is largely thanks to support from NLnet foundation. > > 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. No one likes recurring donations, but they've proven to be the only way that open-source software like Lemmy can stay independent and alive.

Hey there, many of you worried after recent registration bot waves on other instances and now after the temp captcha removal for this Lemmy release. It was fine until now, but it looks like the bored kids with their bots have now found this server. Approval of new signups is now required again. Especially sad as this does not scale well.