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7.6% of Lemmy servers are already running 0.19.8, released yesterday (fedidb.org)
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[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

So when is it safe to upgrade, and from/to which version(s)?

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've become a fan of staying one version behind for a month or two, unless there's a security issue that is involved in which case I'll patch.

I like it when someone who isn't me finds out the catastrophic breaking issues and has to do the cleanup, and I'll wait for the fixed version. :P

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Me too. This is also fueled by the fact that there are no admin tools for announcing releases, and you can't set notifications for any new message in a community, and the releases are announced in a community.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Head to the lemmy github and subscribe to the releases email and you'll get one when a new version is out.

(And, unlike SOME projects I'm subbed to, they don't do anything that generates a ton of spam, so it really is just one-email-per-release.)

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 2 months ago

That is good to know, Thanks.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can pin a post instance wide

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This doesn't help an admin of an instance to identify that a new release has occurred, though.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ah, misread your question. The other comment with the email from the Github should address your question.

[–] Nothing4You@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

@fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com there's also rss feeds for communities

[–] iso@lemy.lol 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Due to unpleasant experiences, not the first day :)

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

People who were there for 0.19.4 remember 😅

But this one seems quite stable, it is a fix for 0.19.7, so hopefully no bug

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ya, my whole server was in a bad mood after 19.4.

I'm on 19.5 which one should I go with (I mean if 19.6 had problems there is maybe a 19.6.1 right?)?

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, it's directly 0.19.6, then .7 and .8

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So you'd recommend the 19.7 as a bugfree stable version?

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

0.19.8 is the bugfix for 0.19.7. You can wait a few days to see if 0.19.8 has bugs

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes that's the theory 😊 but I heard icons or something doesn't work well on 19.7...

Do they do backports?

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

There used to be an issue on thumbnails for some instances

But on the other hand, some instances on 0.19.7 were doing fine:

Not sure about backports

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Thanks, seems it's time to upgrade!