I learned that the next update will be early this week and version 18.0 is going to be skipped. But apart from users telling everyone that it has been updated, is there a way to check for yourself which version it is? Like an ‘about Lemmy’ or something?

  • ClassyHatter@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    At the bottom of the page, it says something like “BE 0.17.4”. BE means BackEnd, in this case that would be Lemmy.

  • NightOwl@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    When I look at all and sort by new it pushes posts down like I’m in a twitch chat with hundreds of people replying.

    Someone told me the latest update makes that not happen, so that’s one way to know.

  • waldek@lemmy.86thumbs.net
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    1 year ago

    At the bottom of every lemmy page you can see the server version and UI version used by the instance. On the github releases page you can follow the server releases. For the UI there aren’t releases, but the versions are tagged so you can follow that. Hope this helps!

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      1 year ago

      Thank you, i should have thought of scrolling to the bottom :-) And thank you for the link to the releases page, very helpful!

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      1 year ago

      How does that work if you install Lemmy in a docker, do I not have to manually change the docker image to the new one?

      I’m trying to install Lemmy and I am confused on how to configure the docker images for starters :-)

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        1 year ago

        You do have to manually change the image tag. That’s how it works.

        Or you can set it to :latest tag and keep recreating the container occasionally, but that’s not recommended.

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    1 year ago

    my follow up question would be, how do insurance owners know when and whether they want to upgrade? like i saw chatter about 0.18 being shunned for an issue but 0.18.1 being well anticipated.

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      1 year ago

      I think ‘we’ as users don’t choose to upgrade, like we would for an app. Just like reddit can implement things. And 0.18 is not being shunned by users; the developers themselves found that implementing this version would have major security issues, if i recall correctly, so they decided to skip it and work on a fix and release that one.