We just deployed the latest version of Lemmy 0.19.2 where the github code includes a possible fix for the outgoing federation issues we have been having.
But lets see before we celebrate. Help us test if outgoing federation seems to work now by making comments, posts and upvotes and see if they appear on other instances.
Of course if the other instances are on Lemmy 0.19.0 or 0.19.1, they could have issues with outgoing federation still until they update.
Release notes for 0.19.2: https://join-lemmy.org/news/2024-01-10_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.2_-_More_Federation_Fixes
Was this an issue that could have been fixed by downgrading?
In theory yes, but it would have meant restoring a database backup and losing data that was created between the backup and the restoration.
We were considering it but it took a few days to realize it was a bug in Lemmy, and we always figured a hotfix would come quickly.
Unfortunately it was xmas and new years so it took a while for a fix to arrive. Next time we won’t update the instance at such a bad time - lesson learned. :)
Mmm yeah that’s tricky. Do all lemmy updates break compatibility with the database? (assuming that’s why a backup restoration would have been required)
No its the first time they specifically said there was a db update in the 0.19.0 upgrade and it took quite some time to complete too. 30 minutes or so of downtime.
Anyway, feels like we are finally past the problems… Things seems to work normally again now.