This may impact lemmy.nz as well as it’s a breaking change.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nz
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    1 year ago

    Wow that release is huge. Look at all the server and ui bug fixes. Going to have to chuck some money to the lemmy devs they’ve clearly been working hard.

  • Dave@lemmy.nzM
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    1 year ago

    Thanks! What is the breaking change? I know the backend and frontend can’t be combined with older versions (i.e. you have to update both at the same time), if that what you’re referring to?

      • Dave@lemmy.nzM
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        1 year ago

        Yes, for the front/backend connection. I’m just hoping there is no change needing us to rush to 0.18

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            1 year ago

            Yeah, definitely. But the lack of capcha and the fact there’s a bug where a remote user can cause an admin account to be un-admined (locking admins out of those settings), well I’m definitely considering waiting for 0.18.1

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              1 year ago

              Didn’t know about the admin lockout bug, that sounds serious.

              • Dave@lemmy.nzM
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                1 year ago

                The steps to reproduce don’t seem to have been tested but the current theory is that if a user is federated to a server that has an admin with the same name, and then that user is banned, then it may cause the admin to be un-admined I guess due to an update that doesn’t correctly distinguish the local and remote users.

                Honestly, it’s annoying but may not be a showstopper for upgrading to 0.18

                You can fix it by changing the flag in the database, and it’s not giving the admin permissions to another user which would be a big security problem.

                • sylverstream@lemmy.nzOP
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                  1 year ago

                  Hi @Dave@lemmy.nz my Jerboa app (Android) has auto updated overnight and now I can no longer log in that way as it requires 0.18. Guess I’m not the only one. Did you decide yet if you want to upgrade to 0.18?