Why did the Lemmy instances stopped upgrading the version they use?

ikidd , 21 minutes ago

Devs did a PSA to not upgrade yet because of some signficant bugs.

bdonvr , 24 minutes ago

I wait a few days or so to see if they’re planning on an emergency release to fix new bugs they didn’t catch but I’ve found upgrading fairly easy, though I have a dedicated and fairly bog standard install and a smaller instance.

ceiphas , 4 hours ago

And Lemmy.ml is managed by one of the devs. And because this instance ist rather self entitled, they don’t care about bugs that much

Diva , 4 hours ago

Wait we don’t care about bugs because we’re self entitled? Gonna need to elaborate on how that one works for me.

Zangoose , 1 hour ago

Pretty sure they’re talking about the devs, not the users

edit: still kind of weird tho

cron , 5 hours ago

Given how long it took to fix the federation issues back in december (0.19 update), I’d be hesitant about updating, too.

woelkchen , 4 hours ago

Given how long it took to fix the federation issues back in december (0.19 update), I’d be hesitant about updating, too.

But you’re on a 0.19.5 instance. Do you experience issues? There’s some incompatibility with Mastodon, apparently, but given that 0.19.5 addresses serious privacy issues and has been out for a while without big problems, the privacy fixes are more important than keeping 100% Mastodon compatibility. Surely 0.19.6 will be out soon enough to address them.

cron , 2 hours ago

At least I personally have not seen any issues in this current release.

Carighan , 4 hours ago

Why did the Lemmy instances stopped upgrading the version they use?

They’ve done prod deployments in real life before and hence no longer believe in CD?

Cephalotrocity , 4 hours ago

What are you looking at because the instance list shows lemmy.ml using a Beta version, and isn’t the only one.

Dozens are using 19.5 which appears to be the latest stable version. Consider a couple of recent stable versions caused a lot of headaches for users and admins I think waiting to see if a newer ‘stable’ version is actually stable, let alone volunteering to test experimental versions in situ is prudent.

cron , 4 hours ago

Just counted: 6 of the top 10 instances use 0.19.5 or newer. Source: lemmyverse.net with default sorting

poVoq , 4 hours ago

We also upgraded fairly quickly and aside from some annoyances with the new image caching it’s not worse than 0.19.3, so relatively speaking this was a good upgrade.