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Lemmy 0.18.4 has been released. You can see the official release announcement here. This one's a small one so should go smoothly. As usual, we'll update at 04:00 UTC tonight.

Edit: Completed successfully as expected. Unfortunately we did have a significant downtime just before the update due to the serve running out of memory. This was partially an odd coincidence and partly my fault. I had noticed that we were getting very near being out of memory, but expected the server would hold out until we rebooted during the maintenance window tonight. Unfortunately that didn't happen. Lemmy does gradually eat memory over time and requires periodic restarts, but the frequency seems rather variable. I never had restart the server for the entire time we were running on 0.18.2, while 0.18.3 needed a restart after just a handful of days of operation. Most significantly, this incident revealed that some of my monitoring tool

Lemmy 0.18.3 has been officially released. You can read the official release notes here. The eagle-eyed among you may notice that we are upgrading from 0.18.1 to 0.18.3 and wonder what happened to 0.18.2, and I share you confusion. It never got an official GitHub release so I never upgraded to it.

I plan to update tonight at 2023-07-29 2023-07-30 2023-07-31 04:00 UTC. Expected downtime is slightly longer than usual due to database updates, but should still be less than 10 minutes. As always, downtime may extend to up to an hour if any thing goes wrong.

Edit: There was a glitch with the update and I had to restore from a backup, which took most of the planned hour. I did successfully test the update on a clone of the production VM beforehand so I'm hopeful that simply retrying the upgrade will succeed, but to keep things within my one hour maintenance window I'll hold off on trying again until the same time tomorrow.

We are slowly accumulating both image and database data and our current disk will likely be full within the next several days. Fortunately I can increase the size of the disk by another 30GB without incurring any additional cost, which should be enough to at least another month of data. Unfortunately Linode doesn't let me increase the size while the server is online so there will be a brief downtime while I shut down the server and reallocate the disk.

Edit: Completed with just over 1.5 minutes of downtime.

Hi Everyone,

This is just a quick FYI that I will be upgrading the instance to the Lemmy 0.18.0 release today at 21:00 (9PM) Pacific time, AKA 2023-06-23 04:00 UTC. Expected downtime is just a few minutes, but may extend up to an hour if anything does not go to plan. You can read the full release announcement here.

Edit: As of 21:03, everything appears to have gone as planned and we are now running 0.18!