Lemmy v0.9.0 Release (2021-01-25)
Changes
Since our last release in October of last year, and we’ve had ~450 commits.
The biggest changes, as we’ll outline below, are a re-work of Lemmy’s database structure, a v2 of Lemmy’s API, and activitypub compliance fixes. The new re-worked DB is much faster, easier to maintain, and now supports hierarchical rather than flat objects in the new API.
We’ve also seen the first release of Lemmur, an android / iOS (soon) / windows / linux client, as well as Lemmer, a native iOS client. Much thanks to @krawieck, @shilangyu, and @uuttff8 for making these great clients. If you can, please contribute to their patreon to help fund lemmur development.
LemmyNet projects
Lemmy Server
- Moved views from SQL to Diesel. This was a spinal replacement for much of lemmy.
- Removed all the old fast_tables and triggers, and created new aggregates tables.
- Added a
v2of the API to support the hierarchical objects created from the above changes. - Moved continuous integration to drone, now includes formatting, clippy, and cargo build checks, unit testing, and federation testing. Drone also deploys both amd64 and arm64 images to dockerhub.
- Split out documentation into git submodule.
- Shortened slur filter to avoid false positives.
- Added query performance testing and comparisons. Added indexes to make sure every query is
< 30 ms. - Added compilation time testing.
Federation
This release includes some bug fixes for federation, and some changes to get us closer to compliance with the ActivityPub standard.
- Community bans now federating.
- Local posts sometimes got marked as remote.
- Creator of post/comment was not notified about new child comments.
- Community deletion now federated.
None of these are breaking changes, so federation between 0.9.0 and 0.8.11 will work without problems.
Lemmy javascript / typescript client
- Updated the lemmy-js-client to use the new
v2API. Our API docs now reference this project’s files, to show what the http / websocket forms and responses should look like. - Drone now handles publishing its npm packages.
Lemmy-UI
- Updated it to use the
v2API vialemmy-js-client, required changing nearly every component. - Added a live comment count.
- Added drone deploying, and builds for ARM.
- Fixed community link wrapping.
- Community Titles are now used instead of names.
- Various other bug fixes.
Lemmy Docs
- We moved documentation into a separate git repository, and support translation for the docs now!
- Moved our code of conduct into the documentation.
Upgrading
If you’d like to make a DB backup before upgrading, follow this guide.
Known issues
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Wondering, is there a roadmap available somewhere?
We have a few bigger issues / milestones to tackle, but they’re all just github issues right now.
Great work as always!
Amazing work! And I knew about Lemmur, but not the native iOS client Lemmer. I just installed it and it’s working well. Great work @uuttff8
same here. so far so good!
We are almost at 1.0!
I dont think so, its more likely that we do 0.10.0 and further versions first.
Personally I’d prefer to call it 1.0.
1.0 implies a stable API, and we are certainly not there yet.
Hmm, ok.
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I was just about to report this. Thanks for the hard work! You guys rock!
yup, also the account creation day has the
editmark next to it, plus it’s a little incorrect, prettt minor, but stillAh good point, I’ll open an issue for that.
edit: done
Upgraded
Baraza. All feels much faster.Just noted that if someone posts while you are entering text in the comment box, your draft comment disappears. I do not know if this is on other instances but I’ll monitor it today and file an issue.
Could you help me replicate, I’ve tried to reproduce this a few times locally, but can’t seem to. Try messing around with multiple tabs and firefox containers on one of our test servers like enterprise.lemmy.ml
I tried replicating it on enterprise but also can’t seem to. It had happened to me twice on lemmy.ml so I will keep an eye on it. It could be my firefox browser or automated post updates clashing with javascript blockers.
Congratulations @dessalines@lemmy.ml Thanks for making this awesome component of the fediverse available!!
Oh I also wanted to say a lot of the top communities have mods that haven’t been active in a long time, if you’d like to request one do so at !community_requests@lemmy.ml .
In case you have successfully launched an instance on raspberry pi, please share your experience in the linked thread https://lemmy.ml/post/49609
🎉🎊
yay!
Great work!
nice, so much new/fixed stuff, a lot of work 🤗
well, it will be good thing if lemmy installation is possible on shared hosting
Great news and we can see a lot of work having been put in. Also good news about ongoing work on the ActivityPub compliance.
