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.
Is it normal that on an upgrade, users are forced to re-login?
They mentioned something about authentication changes. So I’m guessing it’s related to that.
The 2FA on Lemmy was broken in the sense that if you turned it on, it didn’t test you to enter the correct token and then properly activate itself. Thus, it led to many people being locked out of their accounts(unless they were logged in somewhere else as well, in which case they could turn off 2FA). This led to the announcement that 2FA will be reset for users so that incorrectly logged out users can get their access back.
If you use apps, you can’t even relogin. Expect this if you’re using app like boost, sync etc. However you are okay if you’re using Voyager because it is browser-based.
I’ve been having these issues at lemmy.sdf.org when they update to 0.19, for about two weeks now I think. I use Sync and the dev are aware of the issue. But there’s still no fix even though the dev is very quick in fixing bugs before. So I think, this is a major issue for app and it will take quite a while before we will see any fix.
Nope, I only have a lemmy.ml account, and I only use librewolf on the desktop…
I had that issue of having to re-login, and then every now and then when I do reload, it posts not on my subscribed communities as if I were not logged in, although I’m logged in, but on a subsequent reload, then only my subscribed communities posts show up. I haven’t had to re-login again, just after the upgrade, and then the other minor annoyance is that, but a subsequent reload is enough…
Pff, I just got logged out on a refresh, hehe. So what I said is not true, I’m getting logged out, somehow randomly (can’t say I know under which conditions that happens). Not sure if there was a release candidate upgrade, since I can’t remember the version before this new logout. Currently:
UI: 0.19.0-rc.11
BE: 0.19.0-rc.10
