Received message after latest update and crashed afterwards. Is this the right place to post about it?
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[Screenshot of message from the Lemmy app Jeroba.]
Server version (0.17.4) is under the minimum supported version (0.18).
Please inform your administrator and login to another instance, or sign out and use the default instance.
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Is there any page where Jerboa devs describes what is the policy for backward compatibility?
Since not all servers updated synchronously with new Lemmy release it’s a good practice to support several older versions.
I’d assume that’ll be the case once it’s out of alpha/beta test status.
Yup, that’s the policy. I could find it on Matrix if you like, but basically the main dev isn’t interested in spending the time for backwards compatibility, and nobody has yet stepped up.
So it’s not like anyone is opposed. Priority right now is improving supporting new lemmy versions, followed by high priority bugs and features.
Plus it’s been a few pretty hectic weeks for the devs. It’s absolutely understandable there would be issues with this huge influx of new users and scramble to fix issues.
Yeah development speed should slow down in the future. Right now I understand the move away from websockets became really urgent to support all users. And now that’s completed.
Next urgent thing is captcha I guess but that doesn’t sound like a massive addition at least.
Customarily, backwards compatibility starts with version 1.x, so until Lemmy doesn’t release a 1.x stable version, instead staying on a 0.x “let’s break everything”, backwards compatibility is more of a lucky coincidence.
Recommendation from app developer is to use web interface until your instance uptates to 0.18, and probably to 0.18.1 since than will captcha be back.
They had to do it since they changed from using websockets to http calls in 0.18. Maybe downgrading is of jerboa is possible.
Recommendation from app developer is to use web interface until your instance uptates to 0.18, and probably to 0.18.1 since than will captcha be back.
And that won’t probably take that long. The captcha code has already been written, it was just not yet properly reviewed. With some luck as early as next week.
Thank you for explaining!
The admin for my instance claims that 0.18 is very buggy, won’t update the server until the next version is out and bugs are fixed. The new Jerboa still runs for me, but its a bit wonky… I might just downgrade back to the previous version until its sorted out.
I got the message from Jerboa using 0.0.35 from Fdroid but oddly I can just dismiss it and use it just fine. There is an 0.0.36 from Izzy but I’m not able to upgrade to it to test.