dessalines

Here is our regular update that explains what we have been working on for the past two weeks. This should allow average users to keep up with development, without reading Github comments or knowing how to program.

We should also have a bugfix release for a few issues with the last release, and have 0.19.7 ready today or sometime soon.

karminski

• Modify the logic for appending the URL after uploading an image

dullbananas

• Combine action tables. This will greatly improve the performance of lemmy's post database queries by simplifying the number of joined tables.

SleeplessOne1917

• Simplify regex for user/community name validation
• Bump versions used in compose

Nutomic

• Always assign default language before checking if language is allowed
• Fetch community mods synchronously
• Move aggregates to replaceable_schema, fix error (fixes #5186)
• Implement private communities
• Run analyze after changing post.url type (ref #4983)

dessalines

• Add ability to mark multiple posts as read.
• Add user setting to auto-mark fetched posts as read.
• Change "mark post as read", "hide post" api calls to take single post instead of multiple
• Fixing cors origin wildcard.
• Upping default max_image_size from 256 to 512.
• Allow disabling private messages. Fixes #3640
• Fix postgres connection options causing slow query speed.
• Removing strip = true from release profile.
• Add filter to hide posts with comments.
• Fix fullsize post image
• Fix modlog mod_id filtering not working.
• Cleanup post action forms

Support development

@dessalines and @nutomic are working full-time on Lemmy to integrate community contributions, fix bugs, optimize performance and much more. This work is funded exclusively through donations.

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. Recurring donations are ideal because they allow for long-term planning. But also one-time donations of any amount help us.

• Liberapay (preferred option)
• Open Collective
• Patreon
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22529967

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.

Changes

This is a small bugfix release with the following:

• Fixing cors origin wildcard. by @dessalines in #5194
• Fetch community mods synchronously by @Nutomic in #5169
• Move aggregates to replaceable_schema, fix error (fixes #5186) by @Nutomic in #5190

Full Changelog

• Lemmy Backend
• Lemmy-UI

Upgrade instructions

There are no breaking changes with this release.

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.

Thanks to everyone

We'd like to thank our many contributors and users of Lemmy for coding, translating, testing, and helping find and fix bugs. We're glad many people find it useful and enjoyable enough to contribute.

Support development

We (@dessalines and @nutomic) have been working full-time on Lemmy for over five years. This is largely thanks to support from NLnet foundation, as well as donations from individual users.

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. A recurring donation is the best way to ensure that open-source software like Lemmy can stay independent and alive, and helps us grow our little developer co-op to support more full-time developers.

• Liberapay (preferred option)
• Open Collective
• Patreon
• Cryptocurrency

Don't , we're just doing some server upgrades.

Here is our regular update that explains what we have been working on for the past two weeks. This should allow average users to keep up with development, without reading Github comments or knowing how to program.

We also apologize for all the downtime on lemmy.ml recently, but thanks to @Nutomic and @phiresky, we've narrowed down the issue, and have a fix for it.

This was a blocker for the 0.19.6 release, so that should be ready to go soon, with 0.20.0 not long after.

flamingo-cant-draw

• Append attachments to comments

SleeplessOne1917

• Allow Arabic and Cyrillic characters when signing up or creating community

Nothing4You

• Allow admins to resolve removed or deleted objects via API

Integral-Tech

• refactor: destructure tuples to enhance readability

dessalines

• Compress binary with upx.
• Adding community description in addition to sidebar, like site.

Nutomic

• Remove individual user/community inboxes
• Remove comment_like.post_id column which is unnecessary (ref #5122)
• Support markdown sub/superscript, use external crate for spoilers

Support development

@dessalines and @nutomic are working full-time on Lemmy to integrate community contributions, fix bugs, optimize performance and much more. This work is funded exclusively through donations.

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. Recurring donations are ideal because they allow for long-term planning. But also one-time donations of any amount help us.

• Liberapay (preferred option)
• Open Collective
• Patreon
• Cryptocurrency