+# Lemmy v0.11.0 Release (2021-04-27)
+
+## Changes
+
+Since our last release this month, we've had [~60](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/compare/0.10.0...main) commits to Lemmy.
+
+### Lemmy Server
+
+#### Major Changes
+
+- Add option to disable strict allowlist ( [#1486](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1486)) [documentation](https://join.lemmy.ml/docs/en/federation/administration.html)
+- Add option to limit community creation to admins only ([#1587](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1587))
+- Many search improvements:
+ - Don't search for communities or users when the id is included.
+ - Add creator id to search.
+
+#### General
+
+- Adding a user setting to show / hide scores. Fixes [#1503](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1503)
+- Add option to hide read posts. Fixes [#1561](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1561)
+- Mark accounts as bot, and hide bot posts/comments
+- Adding a short site description, to be used for joinlemmy instance list
+- Adding matrix id validation. Fixes [#1520](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1520)
+- Adding users active monthly for community sort. Fixes [#1527](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1527)
+- Don't allow zero-space char in display name. Fixes [#1317](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1317)
+- Adding more rust captcha features. Fixes [#1248](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1248)
+- Fixing slur filter regex. Fixes [#1593](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1593)
+
+#### API
+
+- Added `ChangePassword` as a separate endpoint from `SaveUserSettings`
+- No other breaking changes, but many fields that were previously required are now optional.
+- A full list of the API changes can be seen on this diff of [lemmy-js-client: 0.10.0 -> 0.11.0](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-js-client/compare/0.10.0...0.11.0-rc.13) .
+
+#### Federation
+
+- Implement federated bans fixes [#1298](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1298)
+- Remote mods can update/delete/undelete communities.
+
+### Lemmy UI
+
+- Updating translations.
+- Add UI version to UI via docker. Fixes [#263](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/263)
+- Add Korean language
+- Add check for unused languages in update_translations.sh
+- Validate matrix id on the front end. Fixes [#245](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/245)
+- Communities page sorts by monthly active users. Fixes [#244](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/244)
+- Correctly render HTML in popup notifications
+- Fix html notif bug. Fixes [#254](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/254)
+- Fixing issue with debounce. Fixes [#236](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/236)
+
+
+## Upgrade notes
+
+### Servers
+
+If you'd like to make a DB backup before upgrading, follow [this guide](https://join.lemmy.ml/docs/en/administration/backup_and_restore.html).
+
+To upgrade your instance to `v0.10.0`, simply follow the instructions in the documentation:
+
+- [Upgrade with manual Docker installation](https://join.lemmy.ml/docs/en/administration/install_docker.html#updating)
+- [Upgrade with Ansible installation](https://join.lemmy.ml/docs/en/administration/install_ansible.html)
+
+### Clients / Apps
+
+- A full list of the API changes can be seen on this diff of [lemmy-js-client: 0.10.0 -> 0.11.0](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-js-client/compare/0.10.0...0.11.0-rc.13) .
+
+# Lemmy v0.10.3 Release (2021-04-07)
+
+- Fixing instances page.
+- Fixed unban not working.
+- Fixed post title fetching and cross-post search.
+- Fixed navigating to a user page.
+
+# Lemmy v0.10.2 Release (2021-04-05)
+
+- Forcing a crash if config.hjson fails to load. Should show errors easier.
+
+# Lemmy v0.10.0 Release (2021-04-05)
+
+## Changes
+
+Since our last release in February, we've had [~150](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/compare/0.9.9...main) commits to Lemmy. The biggest changes, as we'll outline below, are a split of Lemmy's user tables into federated and local tables, necessitating a `v3` of Lemmy's API, federated moderation, i18n support in join.lemmy.ml, and lots of back-end cleanup.
+
+### Lemmy Server
+
+#### General
+
+- Rewrote config implementation, finally allowing us to use newer Rust versions.
+- Removed categories.
+- Various refactors.
+
+#### API
+
+- A full list of the API changes can be seen on this diff of [lemmy-js-client: 0.9.9 -> 0.10.0](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-js-client/compare/0.9.9...0.10.0-rc.13) .
+- Login invalidation on password change, thanks to @Mart-Bogdan
+
+#### Federation
+
+- It is now possible to add users from other instances as community mods.
+- Federating Matrix ID.
+- Many changes for better compatibility with ActivityPub standard.
+
+#### Database
+
+- Split the `user_` into `person` and `local_user` tables.
+- Strictly typed commonly used ID columns, to prevent DB errors using `i32` as ids.
+- Strictly typed URL fields, thanks to ajyoon.
+- Created default DB forms, now used in all the unit tests.
+
+### Lemmy UI
+
+- Now using utf-8 emojis.
+- Support for all the above changes to Lemmy.
+- Typescript-safe i18n strings, thanks to @shilangyu.
+- Added expandable post text (click on open book icon).
+- Prettier cross-posting, which does smart quoting.
+- Bugfixes for restoring scroll position on post page, custom site favicons, and autocomplete for login fields.
+
+### Lemmy Docs
+
+- Gazconroy built an [Async API spec for Lemmy](https://join.lemmy.ml/api/index.html), that now serves as our main API docs.
+
+### join.lemmy.ml
+
+- Rewrote in inferno isomorphic, added i18n support via [weblate](https://weblate.yerbamate.ml/projects/lemmy/joinlemmy/).
+- Added a section on the support page thanking contributors.
+- Changed some page urls / titles
+
+## Upgrade notes
+
+**Important**: there are multiple breaking changes:
+
+- Configuration via environment variables is not supported anymore, you must have all your config in the [lemmy.hjson](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/ansible/templates/config.hjson) file ( except for `LEMMY_CONFIG_LOCATION` ).
+- The config format for `allowed_instances` and `blocked_instances` has changed, and you need to adjust your config file manually:
+ - before: `allowed_instances: ds9.lemmy.ml,enterprise.lemmy.ml`
+ - now: `allowed_instances: ["ds9.lemmy.ml", "enterprise.lemmy.ml"]` , and only one of the `allowed_instances` or `blocked_instances` blocks can be set.
+- The API has been upgraded from `v2` to `v3`, so all clients need to be updated: [lemmy-js-client: 0.9.9 -> 0.10.0](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-js-client/compare/0.9.9...0.10.0-rc.13) .
+
+If you'd like to make a DB backup before upgrading, follow [this guide](https://join.lemmy.ml/docs/en/administration/backup_and_restore.html).
+
+To upgrade your instance to `v0.10.0`, simply follow the instructions in the documentation:
+
+- [Upgrade with manual Docker installation](https://join.lemmy.ml/docs/en/administration/install_docker.html#updating)
+- [Upgrade with Ansible installation](https://join.lemmy.ml/docs/en/administration/install_ansible.html)
+
+
+## Compilation time
+
+|| v0.9.0 (Rust 1.47) | v0.10.0 (Rust 1.47) | v0.10.0 (Rust 1.51) |
+|-| -------- | -------- | -------- |
+|Clean | 140s | 146s | 119s |
+| Incremental | 28s | 22s | 19s |
+
+Despite ongoing efforts to speed up compilation, it has actually gotten slower when comparing with the same Rust version. Only thanks to improvements in newer Rust versions has our build process gotten faster. This could be simply because we added more code, while Lemmy v0.9.0 had 22.4k lines of Rust, v0.10.0 has 23.8k (an increase of 6%).
+
+v0.9.0 build graph:
+![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/GVBqFnrLqG.jpg)
+
+v0.10.0 build graph:
+![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/NllzjVEyNK.jpg)
+
+We extracted the crates `lemmy_api_crud` and `lemmy_apub_receive` from `lemmy_api` and `lemmy_apub`, respectively, and renamed `lemmy_structs` to `lemmy_api_common`. In the second graph you can see how parts of the api and apub crates are now built nicely in parallel, speeding up builds on multi-core systems.
+
+On the other hand, some crates have gotten much slower to compile, in particular `lemmy_db_queries` (6.5s slower), `lemmy_apub` (6.5s slower if we include `lemmy_apub_receive`). And `lemmy_db_views` is quite slow, just as before.
+
+# Lemmy v0.9.9 Release (2021-02-19)
+
+## Changes
+
+### Lemmy backend
+- Added an federated activity query sorting order.
+- Explicitly marking posts and comments as public.
+- Added a `NewComment` / forum sort for posts.
+- Fixed an issue with not setting correct published time for fetched posts.
+- Fixed an issue with an open docker port on lemmy-ui.
+- Using lemmy post link for RSS link.
+- Fixed reason and display name lengths to use char counts instead.
+
+### Lemmy-ui
+
+- Updated translations.
+- Made websocket host configurable.
+- Added some accessibility features.
+- Always showing password reset link.
+
+# Lemmy v0.9.7 Release (2021-02-08)
+
+## Changes
+
+- Posts and comments are no longer live-sorted (meaning most content should stay in place).
+- Fixed an issue with the create post title field not expanding when copied from iframely suggestion.
+- Fixed broken federated community paging / sorting.
+- Added aria attributes for accessibility, thx to @Mitch Lillie.
+- Updated translations and added croatian.
+- No changes to lemmy back-end.
+
+# Lemmy v0.9.6 Release (2021-02-05)
+
+## Changes
+
+- Fixed inbox_urls not being correctly set, which broke federation in `v0.9.5`. Added some logging to catch these.
+- Fixing community search not using auth.
+- Moved docs to https://join.lemmy.ml
+- Fixed an issue w/ lemmy-ui with forms being cleared out.
+
+# Lemmy v0.9.4 Pre-Release (2021-02-02)
+
+## Changes
+
+### Lemmy
+
+- Fixed a critical bug with votes and comment unlike responses not being `0` for your user.
+- Fixed a critical bug with comment creation not checking if its parent comment is in the post.
+- Serving proper activities for community outbox.
+- Added some active user counts, including `users_active_day`, `users_active_week`, `users_active_month`, `users_active_half_year` to `SiteAggregates` and `CommunityAggregates`. (Also added to lemmy-ui)
+- Made sure banned users can't follow.
+- Added `FederatedInstances` to `SiteResponse`, to show allowed and blocked instances. (Also added to lemmy-ui)
+- Added a `MostComments` sort for posts. (Also added to lemmy-ui)
+
+### Lemmy-UI
+
+- Added a scroll position restore to lemmy-ui.
+- Reworked the combined inbox so incoming comments don't wipe out your current form.
+- Fixed an updated bug on the user page.
+- Fixed cross-post titles and body getting clipped.
+- Fixing the post creation title height.
+- Squashed some other smaller bugs.
+
+# Lemmy v0.9.0 Release (2021-01-25)
+
+## Changes
+
+Since our last release in October of last year, and we've had [~450](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/compare/v0.8.0...main) commits.
+
+The biggest changes, as we'll outline below, are a re-work of Lemmy's database structure, a `v2` of Lemmy's API, and activitypub compliance fixes. The new re-worked DB is much faster, easier to maintain, and [now supports hierarchical rather than flat objects in the new API](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1275).
+
+We've also seen the first release of [Lemmur](https://github.com/krawieck/lemmur/releases/tag/v0.1.1), an android / iOS (soon) / windows / linux client, as well as [Lemmer](https://github.com/uuttff8/Lemmy-iOS), a native iOS client. Much thanks to @krawieck, @shilangyu, and @uuttff8 for making these great clients. If you can, please contribute to their [patreon](https://www.patreon.com/lemmur) to help fund lemmur development.
+
+## LemmyNet projects
+
+### Lemmy Server
+
+- [Moved views from SQL to Diesel](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1275). This was a spinal replacement for much of lemmy.
+ - Removed all the old fast_tables and triggers, and created new aggregates tables.
+- Added a `v2` of the API to support the hierarchical objects created from the above changes.
+- Moved continuous integration to [drone](https://cloud.drone.io/LemmyNet/lemmy/), now includes formatting, clippy, and cargo build checks, unit testing, and federation testing. [Drone also deploys both amd64 and arm64 images to dockerhub.](https://hub.docker.com/r/dessalines/lemmy)
+- Split out documentation into git submodule.
+- Shortened slur filter to avoid false positives.
+- Added query performance testing and comparisons. Added indexes to make sure every query is `< 30 ms`.
+- Added compilation time testing.
+
+### Federation
+
+This release includes some bug fixes for federation, and some changes to get us closer to compliance with the ActivityPub standard.
+
+- [Community bans now federating](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1287).
+- [Local posts sometimes got marked as remote](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1302).
+- [Creator of post/comment was not notified about new child comments](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1325).
+- [Community deletion now federated](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1256).
+
+None of these are breaking changes, so federation between 0.9.0 and 0.8.11 will work without problems.
+
+### Lemmy javascript / typescript client
+
+- Updated the [lemmy-js-client](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-js-client) to use the new `v2` API. Our API docs now reference this project's files, to show what the http / websocket forms and responses should look like.
+- Drone now handles publishing its [npm packages.](https://www.npmjs.com/package/lemmy-js-client)
+
+### Lemmy-UI
+
+- Updated it to use the `v2` API via `lemmy-js-client`, required changing nearly every component.
+- Added a live comment count.
+- Added drone deploying, and builds for ARM.
+- Fixed community link wrapping.
+- Various other bug fixes.
+
+
+### Lemmy Docs
+
+- We moved documentation into a separate git repository, and support translation for the docs now!
+- Moved our code of conduct into the documentation.
+
+## Upgrading
+
+If you'd like to make a DB backup before upgrading, follow [this guide](https://join.lemmy.ml/docs/en/administration/backup_and_restore.html).
+
+- [Upgrade with manual Docker installation](https://join.lemmy.ml/docs/en/administration/install_docker.html#updating)
+- [Upgrade with Ansible installation](https://join.lemmy.ml/docs/en/administration/install_ansible.html)
+
# Lemmy v0.8.0 Release (2020-10-16)
## Changes
- Created [LemmyNet](https://github.com/LemmyNet), where all lemmy-related projects live.
- Split out the frontend into a separete repository, [lemmy-ui](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui)
- Created a [lemmy-js-client](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-js-client), for any js / typescript developers.
-- Split out i18n [lemmy-translations](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-translations), that any app or site developers can import and use. Lemmy currently supports [~30 languages!](https://weblate.yerbamate.dev/projects/lemmy/lemmy/)
+- Split out i18n [lemmy-translations](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-translations), that any app or site developers can import and use. Lemmy currently supports [~30 languages!](https://weblate.yerbamate.ml/projects/lemmy/lemmy/)
### Lemmy Server
- The first **federation public beta release**, woohoo :fireworks:
- All Lemmy functionality now works over ActivityPub (except turning remote users into mods/admins)
- Instance allowlist and blocklist
-- Documentation for [admins](https://dev.lemmy.ml/docs/administration_federation.html) and [devs](https://dev.lemmy.ml/docs/contributing_federation_overview.html) on how federation works
+- Documentation for [admins](https://join.lemmy.ml/docs/administration_federation.html) and [devs](https://join.lemmy.ml/docs/contributing_federation_overview.html) on how federation works
- Upgraded to newest versions of @asonix activitypub libraries
- Full local federation setup for manual testing
- Automated testing for nearly every federation action
## Contributors
-We'd also like to thank both the [NLnet foundation](https://nlnet.nl/) for their support in allowing us to work full-time on Lemmy ( as well as their support for [other important open-source projects](https://nlnet.nl/project/current.html) ), [those who sponsor us](https://dev.lemmy.ml/sponsors), and those who [help translate Lemmy](https://weblate.yerbamate.dev/projects/lemmy/). Every little bit does help. We remain committed to never allowing advertisements, monetizing, or venture-capital in Lemmy; software should be communal, and should benefit humanity, not a small group of company owners.
+We'd also like to thank both the [NLnet foundation](https://nlnet.nl/) for their support in allowing us to work full-time on Lemmy ( as well as their support for [other important open-source projects](https://nlnet.nl/project/current.html) ), [those who sponsor us](https://lemmy.ml/sponsors), and those who [help translate Lemmy](https://weblate.yerbamate.ml/projects/lemmy/). Every little bit does help. We remain committed to never allowing advertisements, monetizing, or venture-capital in Lemmy; software should be communal, and should benefit humanity, not a small group of company owners.
## Upgrading
-- [with manual Docker installation](https://dev.lemmy.ml/docs/administration_install_docker.html#updating)
-- [with Ansible installation](https://dev.lemmy.ml/docs/administration_install_ansible.html)
+- [with manual Docker installation](https://join.lemmy.ml/docs/administration_install_docker.html#updating)
+- [with Ansible installation](https://join.lemmy.ml/docs/administration_install_ansible.html)
## Testing Federation
Federation is finally ready in Lemmy, pending possible bugs or other issues. So for now we suggest to enable federation only on test servers, or try it on our own test servers ( [enterprise](https://enterprise.lemmy.ml/), [ds9](https://ds9.lemmy.ml/), [voyager](https://voyager.lemmy.ml/) ).
-If everything goes well, after a few weeks we will enable federation on dev.lemmy.ml, at first with a limited number of trusted instances. We will also likely change the domain to https://lemmy.ml . Keep in mind that changing domains after turning on federation will break things.
+If everything goes well, after a few weeks we will enable federation on lemmy.ml, at first with a limited number of trusted instances. We will also likely change the domain to https://lemmy.ml . Keep in mind that changing domains after turning on federation will break things.
To enable on your instance, edit your [lemmy.hjson](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/config/defaults.hjson#L60) federation section to `enabled: true`, and restart.
Before starting the upgrade, make sure that you have a working backup of your
database and image files. See our
-[documentation](https://dev.lemmy.ml/docs/administration_backup_and_restore.html)
+[documentation](https://join.lemmy.ml/docs/administration_backup_and_restore.html)
for backup instructions.
**With Ansible:**
Another major announcement is that Lemmy now has another lead developer besides me, [@felix@radical.town](https://radical.town/@felix). Theyve created a better documentation system, implemented RSS feeds, simplified docker and project configs, upgraded actix, working on federation, a whole lot else.
-https://dev.lemmy.ml
+https://lemmy.ml