2024-06-07 - Lemmy Release v0.19.4 - Image Proxying and Federation improvements
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  • iso@lemy.lolEnglish
    29·
    6 months ago

    Good to hear it’s out 🎉 I’m so hyped for the image proxy. Storing images permanently was costly.

  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    25·
    6 months ago

    Great stuff peeps! Looks like my future is very busy with having to do a complex pictrs upgrade and then a postgres and finally lemmy. Oof! 😅

    • Dessalines@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
      141·
      6 months ago

      Thx! Let me know if the postgres upgrade helper script I provided has any issues.

        • Tiff@reddthat.comEnglish
          4·
          6 months ago

          The script will be useless to you, besides for referencing what to do.

          Export, remove pg15, install pg16, import. I think you can streamline with both installed at once as they correctly version. You could also use the in place upgrade. Aptly named: pg_upgradeclusters

          But updating to 0.19.4, you do not need to go to pg16… but… you should, because of the benefits!

  • Die4EverEnglish
    221·
    6 months ago

    In order to improve interoperability with Mastodon and other microblogging platforms, Lemmy now automatically includes a hashtag with new posts. The hashtag is based on the community name, so posts to /c/lemmy will automatically have the hashtag #lemmy. This makes Lemmy posts much easier to discover.

    this should be interesting

    for reference, this is what it looks like on Mastodon, the post to [email protected] it gets the hashtag for announcements

    https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]/112576601493225058

    it’s not really part of the message text, it’s separate

    image proxying also sounds good

    • Microw@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      6 months ago

      I’m pretty sure thats due to how mastodon renders hashtags at the end of a post. Not due to how Lemmy sends it.

  • Ben Matthews@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    17·
    6 months ago

    That’s great progress, thanks for all the work!
    Glad to see enhanced federation with rest of fediverse - a small detail : the link for ‘Automatically includes a hashtag with new posts’ should point to pull #4533 (not #4398 ) - should help discoverability from mastodon, especially if community tags become customisable.

  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkEnglish
    12·
    6 months ago

    I know pre 1.x.x is kind of a wild west for versioning but uh is there any logic to the version numbers here? I’d think a new feature would be a minor version bump, not patch

    • SorteKanin@feddit.dkEnglish
      24·
      6 months ago

      The convention in many Rust projects is usually that before 1.0, the patch version behaves like the minor version and the minor version behaves like a major version. So once there are breaking changes, they go to 0.20.0.

      • dan@upvote.auEnglish
        7·
        6 months ago

        This is the case with a lot of apps that follow SemVer, even though it’s not an official part of the spec. It’s not specific to Rust.

        The other common thing I see is that if it’s been at 0.x for a long time, the minor version number eventually gets “promoted” to a major version number once the app is stable. For example, React went from 0.14.x to 15.0.0.

    • Dessalines@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
      141·
      6 months ago

      That’s my bad really. Currently we’re using the patch semver to denote non-breaking changes, and the minor for breaking.

      We’re holding off on a major release until the API reaches stable, which like all open source projects we’re reticent to do because then it puts a lot of pressure on us to match the standard of enterprise-level software developed by a large corporation.

      Even though lemmy has many thousands of monthly active users, we’re still really an beta-level software developed by a handful of people.

      • mke@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        6 months ago

        Honestly, that strategy feels like the most sensible one, since the real world often does not (or can not afford to) care to wait for v1.0.0 before using software. It’s no wonder so many programming ecosystems have adopted it.

        I find it a bit of a shame it’s not part of the semver specification itself, which only states:

        1. (paraphrased) do whatever you want haha

        My point is, I don’t think that’s “your bad.” It’s just how it is, and the best there currently is. Unless you think there’s something that could’ve been done better, in which case I’m curious as to what, if you’re willing to share.

  • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
    111·
    6 months ago

    Mr. Dessalines and Principal Nutomic were in the closet making 19.4 and I used one of the pre-releases and the pre-release gave me Havana Syndrome and made me into a Manchurian Candidate!

  • Psych@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    8·
    6 months ago

    Well that settles it, I had my doubts if I should create an account and commit yo this platform as I wasn’t sure if it was here to stay or not and if something like sublinks or piefed will come out on top but yeah its this update that answered it for me and I have made a permanent account lol.

  • Andrew@piefed.socialEnglish
    7·
    6 months ago

    lemm.ee have upp’d to 0.19.4, and presumably turned on the Image Proxying thing - this is what I get for: https://lemm.ee/post/34040618

    {"error":"unknown","message":"Request error: error sending request for url ([http://127.0.0.1:8080/image/original?proxy=https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/be3c/live/2a45fdb0-20ee-11ef-a3ab-e73c00cc3104.jpg)](http://127.0.0.1:8080/image/original?proxy=https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/be3c/live/2a45fdb0-20ee-11ef-a3ab-e73c00cc3104.jpg)): operation timed out"}