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[Update: Failed again] Update to 0.18.1-rc.1 tried and rolled back (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by ruud@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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We've upgraded lemmy.world to 0.18.1-rc.1 and rolled back that upgrade because of issues.

(If you had posted anything in those 10 minutes between upgrade and rollback, that post is gone. Sorry!)

The main issue we saw is that users can't login anymore. Existing sessions still worked, but new logins failed (from macos, ios and android. From linux and windows it worked)

Also new account creation didn't work.

I'll create an issue for the devs and retry once it's fixed.

Edit Contacted the devs, they tell me to try again with lemmy-ui at version 0.18.0. Will try again, brace for some downtime!

Edit 2 So we upgraded again, and it seemed to work nicely! But then it slowed down so much it was unuseable. There were many locks in the database. People reported many JSON errors. Sorry, we won't be on 0.18.1 any time soon I'm afraid..

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[-] oldLady80@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Thank you for your work!

[-] kylian0087@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

thanks for your hard work ruud!

[-] linearchaos@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

If at first you don't succeed, try every other RC until proper :)

We have a good thing going, don't rush it, we'll wait :) and thank you for your service.

[-] pampoon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I’ve found from hopping around some other instances that have upgraded to 0.18 that it is still pretty buggy. It does seem to be giving more information about the errors, instead of just failing like in 0.17, but spend any time browsing on those instances and you’re bound to be inundated with JSON and query errors. It also seems to get worse the longer you browse.

The UI changes are nice, and I do appreciate not having my feed auto-updating constantly, but I think you’d be making the right choice to hold off on upgrading until they can iron 0.18.1 out all the way. I’m not super knowledgeable about TS and Rust, but as a user it seems that switching from WebSocket created/shined a light on Lemmy’s issues with caching in general.

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[-] itadakimasu@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the hard work /u/ruud, we'll get there

[-] T156@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Looks like we're still having issues, more's the pity.

Do we know what's causing the issue, or is it still a bit of a mystery for the time being?

[-] noXi@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

was there a test environment? why rc in production?

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[-] snargledorf@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

~~RC2~~ RC4 was just released, here's hoping it solves the issues you were experiencing with performance of RC1!

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[-] FollyDolly@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

After the update I can no longer log in or interact with Jerboa. Hopefully y'all resolve this soon, as I am really digging Jerboa, but thanks for letting us know what's going on, and keeping up the good work.

[-] T156@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There's a major breaking change in the 0.18 update (moving away from Websockets for posts and comments), that means that older Jerboa builds no longer work with instances on, or past, that version, and newer Jerboa builds won't work with servers older than 0.18.

[-] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Version fracturing is probably going to be a fact of life on a decentralized platform like lemmy, a "good" app should probably handle cases for the latest few revisions instead of just the latest.

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[-] jetsetdorito@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I've been using Jerboa since I joined a few weeks ago, I haven't been liking any of the other clients so far, but today I tried thunder and I'm enjoying it more than Jerboa

[-] hal_5700X@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Good luck next time. Thank you for your hard work & transparancy.

[-] forksandspoons@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Sucks that you couldnt get it working yet, but there are bound to be problems at this scale.

Anyone have any resources for learning what running a lemmy server is like ? Seems pretty interesting

[-] Zetaphor@zemmy.cc 1 points 2 years ago

If you're running a small server it's pretty straightforward and hands-off. It's only when you get to the scale of these larger instances that you run into issues. I just rerun ansible every time there's an update and it otherwise just manages itself.

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