cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1808829
What is Lemmy?
Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top.
Major Changes
This release includes major improvements to performance, specifically optimizations of database queries. Special thanks to @phiresky, @ruud, @sunaurus and many others for investigating these. Additionally this version includes a fix for another cross-site scripting vulnerability. For these reasons instance admins should upgrade as soon as possible.
As promised, captchas are supported again. And as usual there are countless bug fixes and minor improvements, many of them contributed by community members.
Upgrade instructions
Follow the upgrade instructions for ansible or docker.
If you need help with the upgrade, you can ask in our support forum or on the Matrix Chat.
Support development
We (@dessalines and @nutomic) have been working full-time on Lemmy for almost three years. This is largely thanks to support from NLnet foundation.
If you like using Lemmy, and want to make sure that we will always be available to work full time building it, consider donating to support its development. No one likes recurring donations, but they’ve proven to be the only way that open-source software like Lemmy can stay independent and alive.
Thank you so much for this. The HOT timeline is much better now and posts aren’t hidden <3
No probs, that’s why we gotta test these release candidates for a bit before doing releases.
Nice! I updated my instance already. Thank you to all contributors! 🥳
Awesome work folks, thanks!
Got my server updated using Lemmy Auto Deploy
We have such a long way to go even to hit version 1. 👀
If I were to stand up a lemmy server, has anyone made a simple guide to do so?
I haven’t run a server since I had a php site with MySQL on a dedicated server 15 years ago.
I recommend Ansible as described in the official docs. Fairly easy if you know your way around a terminal and have a suitable Linux box for deployment.
I notice they seem to have tried to address the bug with going back from a comment page to the fees page scrolling up to the top. But I think there’s a different bug now where if you go to a comment thread and then back out to the feed when you weren’t on the first page of the feed. Like if I’m on page 2 of my feed and click on a comment thread and then back out to the feed, I end up scrolled down correctly, but I’m no longer on page 2 of the feed. Anybody else notice this?
