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SJW upgrade to v19.5 (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by TheDude to c/main
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Hello sh.itjust.works community,

It’s been a while since my last update, and I owe you all a more detailed one soon. However, today I’m here to give you a heads-up about the upcoming upgrade.

Over the next 7 days, I’ll be upgrading the instance to v19.5. While this update doesn’t strictly require it, I’ve decided to take this opportunity to upgrade our Postgres database from version 15 to 16 as well. This process can be time-consuming and have take up to 2 hours to complete on other instance.

I'm optimistic that we'll complete it in less time, but to err on the side of caution, I've scheduled the maintenance window for 120 minutes.

To minimize downtime, I've split the upgrade into two phases: Phase one will cover the database update, and Phase two will handle the Lemmy code upgrade.

Note: If the database upgrade is completed in under 60 minutes, I’ll proceed with the Lemmy code upgrade during the same maintenance window.

Here's the tentative timeline:

Task Date Expected Downtime
Upgrade of Postgres Database Friday September 20 2024 @ 8:00PM ET 60-120 Minutes
Upgrade to V19.5 ~~Monday or Tuesday September 23 or 24 @ 8:00PM ET~~ ~~Up to 30 Minutes~~

During these two planned events those who want to provide moral support or who want to get periodic updates are more than welcome to join us on our matrix channel

edit: 9:23EDT - Hey all, the database and lemmy codebase has been upgraded to v19.5. The database upgrade took a lot less time than expected so I went right into upgrading the codebase. A whole bunch of background tasks are still running which might make your experience slower than usual. Things should be back to normal in the next couple of hours.

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[–] hydrashok 31 points 3 months ago

Thanks, TheDude! Hope all goes well and you’re able to relax and enjoy your Friday night!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago

Thanks for the update :)

[–] clay_pidgin 13 points 3 months ago

Thanks, boss!

[–] hal_5700X 12 points 3 months ago

Good luck, Boss.

[–] threelonmusketeers 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Awesome! Thanks, Dude! Keep us posted!

Do let us know when we can donate as well. While I appreciate your continued generosity, I would feel more confident in the long-term future of the server if the financial costs were decentralized a bit. It would be nice to know that the future costs are covered for the next x months/years.

[–] TheDude 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely. This is exactly why It's important that we get a donation strategy put into place sooner rather than later.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 10 points 3 months ago

Awesome!

Is there a way to throw money at you yet? Moral support is nice, but cold, hard cash is hopefully also appreciated. If that's a thing, point me in the right direction and you'll have a little pick-me-up this weekend.

[–] verity_kindle 9 points 3 months ago

Thank you and God bless you for your hard work for us.

[–] nehal3m 8 points 3 months ago

Hey thanks for all the effort that you're putting into this dude. You don't owe us anything, we owe you.

[–] iUseTc 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for your good work. I would appreciate having the dates in UTC or relative to it as well, because I don't know what "ET" is.

[–] ALERT 5 points 3 months ago

thank you!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

At first I thought this meant "Social Justice Warriors" updated and I thought, oh, they were all bots by trolls and it kind of made sense.

[–] interurbain1er 8 points 3 months ago

And here I was hoping we were getting the white knight DLC.

[–] brbposting 3 points 3 months ago

SJW server best server

Dude best dude

Thank you!!

[–] Draconic_NEO 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

~~If the instance updated how come it still says 0.19.3 in the web client?~~

Cleared cookies and it's now showing the updated version number and version features.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Great news!

[–] lulztard 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

For a second there I thought I'm retarded, then my brain started rubbing two cells together. Never noticed the acronym, heh.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

It's the same with CBT, I always see Cock and Ball Torture.

[–] Thelie 2 points 3 months ago

I'm looking forward to the new version, thanks for doing all this work and I hope the update goes well :)

[–] threelonmusketeers 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Are we back?

[–] TheDude 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

We sure are!

[–] threelonmusketeers 2 points 3 months ago

Awesome! Thanks for keeping this sh*t just working!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Well done!

[–] Quacksalber 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I no longer see separated up- and downvotes for comments and neither an option to change that in the settings, despite the changelogs mentioning it. Any ideo what’s up with that?

[–] threelonmusketeers 3 points 3 months ago

I still see separate upvote and downvote tallies, but they've moved from next to the voting buttons to the top line of the comment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

It should be in the settings, "show upvotes" and "show downvotes" are two different checkboxes

[–] threelonmusketeers 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

A few images which were previously federated seem to have disappeared. Any idea what happened to them?

Example: https://sh.itjust.works/post/25443050

[–] TheDude 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is odd. I did not upgrade pictrs (the service responsible for image hosting). There may have been an error for some specific tables rows during the database migrates. Another possibility could have been an error during the schema update that I believe the new version had to go through.

Would you be able to DM me links to other posts that you come across with broken images? I will look to see if I can identify any common trends that could tell us more.

Thank you

[–] threelonmusketeers 3 points 3 months ago

Would you be able to DM me links to other posts that you come across with broken images?

I can't find any at the moment, and my original example seems to have resolved itself. If I come across any others, I'll send them your way.