The new 0.19.0 release of Lemmy has been released! 🎉

To take advantage of some of the new features, such as the previously mentioned account import/export feature, The Outpost will be performing some maintenance at 9PM EST to start this upgrade. That is in about 11 hours from the time of this post. The release notes indicate that the upgrade should take less than 30 minutes, but given the hardware of the system that The Outpost is running under, this might take a bit over the 30 minute window to account for the backup time, and the actual database migration time. Of course, we’ll keep you updated on the progress over at our status page just so that you’re kept in the loop!

Keep in mind, that 0.19.0 has some breaking API changes that may impact third party clients and alternative frontends that have not been updated in a while, however most have already published updates beforehand to take this into account.

The BitForged Space will also be updating to this release about an hour before The Outpost just to ensure that there are no major problems that would cause a need to fully reverse course (at the moment, it is just Myth and I on the instance so worse-case scenario it would impact us) - but this also means that assuming all goes well, you can import your settings from The Outpost over there once the upgrade has completed for both instances.

On an additional note, even though 0.19.0 is out now, I don’t have any plans on immediately decommissioning The Outpost right afterwards of course. There is still no timeline on this as of yet given that we’re still trying to sort out what hardware we’re going to keep, what will be getting dropped, etc - the results of this will be when a timeline starts to be established. Once that has been drafted up, it’ll be posted here to keep everyone updated as well.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to let me know!