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We are running a Lemmy release candidate; there may be issues

We are running the latest release candidate for Lemmy, version 0.19.0-rc.1. This release candidate includes many changes.

Every release comes with its own challenges; however, it resolves previous ones. We hope this release will resolve a longstanding issue with sync not working, causing a lot of manual work from the admins to keep things in sync.

Please let us know if you experience any weird behavior.

Some known issues so far are:

HTML entities characters in posts bodies (Changing &amp; to &amp;amp;)
The spoiler tag crashes the site if used in the sidebar
Mobile apps are borked again

Update 10/25/2023

We are now running release candidate 3.

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Is there any update on the third party app authentication issues? Both Jerboa and Sync are not letting me sign in.

Appreciate the work that goes into running an instance and thanks for keeping us up to date!
- We are tracking the progress of the 3rd party apps on this post: https://discuss.online/post/1294119
  
  tl;dr; App developers need to update to the new API of Lemmy 0.19. Breaking changes were made by the core team.
  
  We decided to update before all the fixes were released for the apps for several reasons:
  
  We want to push app developers to release updates quick
  
  We want to help support Lemmy core development by testing changes and releases
  
  We had major issues with the previous version and though the trade of new issues was worth it
  
  We want to push app developers to release updates quick
  
  It's been a month and Sync doesn't support it. So much for that idea. Centralization wins again.
  
  That said, the web interface is pretty good on my Tab S7.
  
  I’ve been told by the developers of Liftoff! That they don’t intend to support 0.19RC at the moment.
  
  Has discuss.online been defederated or is it to do with being on 0.19
  
  I’ve also noticed that I can’t access communities on Lemmy.world since they updated to 0.18.5
Yup, getting authentication errors on Memmy for iOS now, as well. I'm back to browser-based for now...
Thanks! I was wondering why Sync was broken again.
I created a PR to fix one of the issues regarding sidebar not loading: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/2200
I like the idea of the Scaled view; some of those smaller communities don't ever show up unless I view by New.
- I always sort by new first for this reason.
Thank you for the hard work as always OP.
- No problem, thank you!
Posts from communities I am not subscribed to appear in Home tab in the Voyager app on Android since the previous update (problem was not resolved by last update to version 1.19.3).
- I've noticed that on the web too. However, on the web it's only occasional.
  
  I'm hoping the final release of Lemmy .19 fixes it.
  
  Thanks for reporting.

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