TLDR:

• All going well, there will be an outage of approx 30 mins starting at approx 8:30pm tonight
• If things don’t go well, there may be a further outage
• Lemmy 0.19 has breaking changes, the key impact of this is that old lemmy apps that haven’t been updated in the last month or two are likely to break as they won’t have had the lemmy changes incorporated.
• Lemmy caches the website - after the update you will most likely have to clear your browser cache to get the new version, otherwise it won’t be able to communicate with the server. The easiest way is to click the browser refresh button while holding SHIFT. On mobile you may be able to do the same by long-pressing the refresh button in the menu.

Today's downtime

Just to start, I want to acknowledge we have had some downtime today. The guys that donate hosting to us (the fediservices.nz guys) had downtime today, so all their services have been intermittently down as well as us. It should now be solved, sorry about that. Hopefully no one urgently needed to browse lemmy.

Lemmy 0.19.2

After cancelling the planned update to lemmy 0.19.1 on learning of some serious federation issues other instances have had, a new version was released that has resolved these issues for those instances. Therefore, I am planning to upgrade this evening. See the previous post for more info.

Now is the time for objections, so speak up if you have any objections to us updating.

The starting time should be around 8:30pm tonight NZDT (when this post is 2.5 hours old), but I may start a bit earlier if I get kids to sleep earlier. Or later if kids are asleep later. I'll post progress in the lemmy matrix chatroom.

I'm hoping for less than 30 mins of downtime, but this of course depends on everything going smoothly.