After some arduous work from the developers and many other contributors, the newest version of lemmy has become available!

Many long-awaited features are now available - like blocking instances and exporting/importing an account.

You can head over to the original post to look at the long list of new features: https://mander.xyz/post/7346514

Thanks a lot to the developers for their hard work! If you would like to support Lemmy’s development, please make sure to check out the developer’s funding drive: https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-10-31_-_Join-Lemmy_Redesign_and_Funding_Drive

    • SalamanderOPMA
      2·
      11 months ago

      Probably! I hope this doesn’t cause an issue logging back in for anyone.

      • Masimatutu
        3·
        11 months ago

        Mobile apps seem to struggle a bit. Eternity didn’t allow me to interact before I logged out and in again and Jerboa doesn’t allow me to log in at all. But that’s to be expected with such a big update!

          • Masimatutu
            4·
            11 months ago

            I’m using 0.0.52, the latest version on F-Droid, and when logging in it returns “Illegal input”. I’m not entirely sure whether it’s 0.19.0 that is causing it though, since it’s the first time I use Jerboa in a while, but lemm.ee works and they haven’t updated so I directly assumed that it was that (bad science, I know).

      • Mothra
        3·
        11 months ago

        It is, I’ve been unable to login for almost two days using Jerboa. I managed on desktop and seeing updates were on the way, I installed Boost (what I’m using to reply right now!). Jerboa is still dead for me though, and I expect others may also run into issues.

        • SalamanderOPMA
          3·
          11 months ago

          The latest Jerboa version does work (Jerboa 0.0.54), but it seems it is not yet on F-Droid. You can get it directly from the github release page, or, as someone else suggested, using Obtainium.

          For future updates, especially if they are as large as this one, it will probably be better if I make an announcement a few days before the update is expected so that users are not caught by surprise.

          • Mothra
            3·
            11 months ago

            That’s a good idea with the pre-update announcement, thanks for taking care of us Sal!

            Thanks for the heads up about Jerboa but, for the moment, I’m happy with my new toy Boost! Cheers

        • SalamanderOPMA
          1·
          11 months ago

          Hmm, I have not used Liftoff myself. But I have looked into the github issues, their lemmy community, and their matrix chat to get an idea of what the status is. There is no evidence that anyone is actively working on implementing the 0.19.0 update at the moment, unfortunately. So I don’t know if/when lemmy 0.19.0 will be supported by it.

  • Toadvark
    5·
    11 months ago

    I haven’t been around much (work, life, you know the drill) but I’d like to say a continued THANK YOU for running Mander. 😄

    • SalamanderOPMA
      2·
      11 months ago

      Nice to have you around :-) No worries, life has also been keeping me extra busy. I make sure to stop by a few times daily to do routine checks and make sure the instance is not on fire, but I haven’t been too interactive myself.