Hi everyone,

The two NVMe's currently installed in the server, has served their lasts writes and reads and need to be replaced.

I've ordered 2 new that should show up tomorrow and will be installed tomorrow evening at around 21:00.

Lemmy.wtf and PeerTube.wtf will be down during the maintenance.

🎉🎉🎉

Dear all users of lemmy.wtf,

I am sorry about the unavailability of lemmy.wtf. After doing, what I thought would be a simple update, ended in hours and hours of troubleshooting, trying to get lemmy.wtf online again.

Luckily lemmy.wtf is back up again, however it seems there is issues with uploaded images. Still working on trying to solve that.

https://lemmy.wtf/post/2841215

Major Changes

This release is very large with almost 400 commits since 0.18.5. As such we can only give a general overview of the major changes in this post, and without going into detail. For more information, read the full changelog and linked issues at the bottom of this post.

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Lemmy v0.18.4 Release (2023-08-08)

https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-08-08_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.18.4

This version fixes the problem of comment context not loading properly. It also fixes a couple other bugs.

Latest Backend (BE) Release

• Latest Release:
  https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/releases/tag/0.18.4
• Compare with previous Release:
  https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/compare/0.18.3...0.18.4
• Compare with release/v0.18 branch:
  https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/compare/0.18.4...release/v0.18

Latest Frontend (UI) Release

• Latest Release:
  https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/releases/tag/0.18.4
• Compare with previous Release:
  https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/compare/0.18.3...0.18.4
• Compare with release/v0.18 branch:
  https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/compare/0.18.4...release/v0.18

Lemmy v0.18.3 Release (2023-07-28)

https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-07-28_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.18.3

This version brings major optimizations to the database queries, which significantly reduces CPU usage. There is also a change to the way federation activities are stored, which reduces database size by around 80%. Special thanks to @phiresky for their work on DB optimizations.

The federation code now includes a check for dead instances which is used when sending activities. This helps to reduce the amount of outgoing POST requests, and also reduce server load.

In terms of security, Lemmy now performs HTML sanitization on all messages which are submitted through the API or received via federation. Together with the tightened content-security-policy from 0.18.2, cross-site scripting attacks are now much more difficult.

Other than that, there are numerous bug fixes and minor enhancements.

Latest Backend (BE) Release

• Latest Release:
  https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/releases/tag/0.18.3
• Compare with previous Release:
  https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/compare/0.18.2...0.18.3
• Compare with release/v0.18 branch:
  https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/compare/0.18.3...release/v0.18

Latest Frontend (UI) Release

• Latest Release:
  https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/releases/tag/0.18.3
• Compare with previous Release:
  https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/compare/0.18.2...0.18.3
• Compare with release/v0.18 branch:
  https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/compare/0.18.3...release/v0.18

@meldrik@lemmy.wtf Got tired of frequent DDoS attacks and federation issues (lemmy.world bubble) and hence made a new account on a smaller instance.

Security and Performance Improvements

https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-07-11_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.18.2

Latest Backend (BE) Release ~~Candidate (RC)~~

• Latest Release ~~Candidate~~:
  https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/releases/tag/0.18.2
• Compare with previous Release:
  https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/compare/0.18.1...0.18.2
• Compare with release/v0.18:
  https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/compare/0.18.2...release/v0.18

Latest Frontend (UI) Release ~~Candidate (RC)~~

• Latest Release ~~Candidate~~:
  https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/releases/tag/0.18.2
• Compare with previous Release:
  https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/compare/0.18.1...0.18.2
• Compare with release/v0.18:
  https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/compare/0.18.2...release/v0.18

~~Not too long now until~~ lemmy-0.18.1 gets released ... and it has support for Captchas restored.

Latest Backend (BE) Release ~~Candidate (RC)~~

• Latest RC:
  https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/releases/tag/0.18.1
• Compare with previous Release:
  https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/compare/0.18.0...0.18.1
• Compare with main:
  https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/compare/0.18.1...main

Latest Frontend (UI) Release ~~Candidate (RC)~~

• Latest RC:
  https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/releases/tag/0.18.1
• Compare with previous Release:
  https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/compare/0.18.0...0.18.1
• Compare with main:
  https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/compare/0.18.1...main

Notes:

• Both the Backend as well as the Frontend have a rather convoluted commit history (UI much worse than BE). It almost looks like git rebase does not exist.

Not too long now until lemmy-0.18.0 gets released.

Looks like Captchas have been restored after they been initially removed from 0.18.X and then removed again. It's getting funny!

Latest Backend (BE) Release Candidate (RC)

• Latest RC:
  https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/releases/tag/0.18.0-rc.8
• Compare with previous RC:
  https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/compare/0.18.0-rc.6...0.18.0-rc.8
• Compare with main:
  https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/compare/0.18.0-rc.8...main

Latest Frontend (UI) Release Candidate (RC)

• Latest RC:
  https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/releases/tag/0.18.0-rc.8
• Compare with previous RC:
  https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/compare/0.18.0-rc.7...0.18.0-rc.8
• Compare with main:
  https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/compare/0.18.0-rc.8...main

TL;DR: lemmy-0.18.0 has been released without support for Captchas 💣

You finally managed to create an account on a Lemmy server (instance)? Congratulations!

Now you are probably wondering what to do next... I can't tell you that. That's up to you, buddy!

Here are some suggestions though:

• Lemmy Explorer Use this page to search for communities all a cross Lemmy. Even those that Lemmy.wtf doesn't know about yet.
• With Sub.rehab, you are able to search for alternative communities to your favourit subreddits.
• Start a new community by requesting it at c/community_requests

You are welcome to ask questions about Lemmy (the software) in this post or in this community: c/lemmy_support

It might be a good idea to have a Mastodon Account for the lemmy.wtf instance. Especially in case the lemmy instance goes down (like now).

Does anybody know why and when thumbnails for YouTube videos are shown or not? It appears to depend on the lemmy instance the posts are served from:

Without Thumbnails

• https://lemmy.world/c/guildwars2@lemmy.wtf
• https://lemmy.wtf/c/guildwars2

With Thumbnails

• https://feddit.de/c/guildwars2@lemmy.wtf
• https://lemm.ee/c/guildwars2@lemmy.wtf

Update: It's not only YT thumbnails which aren't shown. This is your post about the free 24 slot bag as shown on lemmy.wtf (without thumbnail), lemmy.world (without thumbnail) and feddit.de (with thumbnail):

• https://lemmy.wtf/post/452
• https://lemmy.world/post/78622
• https://feddit.de/post/809185