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Photon (moved to lemdro.id)

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Lemmy v0.19.0 is introducing some breaking changes that, if I add support for in Photon, will break compatibility with instances before v0.19.0. If I don't add support for v0.19.0, instances with that version or higher will break. How should I proceed?

A: Keep an old version of photon available for people who need to use a pre-0.19.0 instance (medium difficulty)

B: Add a message to login saying the instance must be v0.19.0 or higher, nuke all backwards compatibility (easiest solution)

C: wait until most instances are on v0.19.0 to proceed with B

D: Add code to handle different versions (hardest solution)

I'd prefer that people be able to rely on Photon, and anything that prevents them from doing stuff on photon I see as a catastrophic issue. A looks the most appealing right now.

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[โ€“] Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

How often does it auto upgrade? I noticed that photon.lemmy.ca is on V1.4.2 while the current version is V1.9.4. Are builds failing?

A few quite large bugs are on v1.4.2

[โ€“] Shadow@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah it doesn't. I was thinking of something else.

I'll update it now though ๐Ÿ˜‚