Voyager is dropping support for Lemmy 0.18 on March 18

Hi! Just a quick announcement that I plan to drop support for Lemmy 0.18 in the Voyager app on March 18 2024.

Due to authentication changes in lemmy 0.18->0.19, this means that you will be unable to login to instances running lemmy 0.18.

Most instances have already upgraded to 0.19. I encourage Instances running 0.18 to upgrade as soon as possible. Those instances include:

  • lemmy.world (✅ upgrade planned upgraded March 3rd)
  • sh.itjust.works (✅ upgrade planned upgraded Feb 29th)
  • lemmy.blahaj.zone (✅ upgrade planned upgraded March 9th)
  • beehaw.org (⚠️ unknown upgrade timeline)

If you are a user on beehaw.org, please let your instance administrator know.

In addition, if you are on a very small instance, please check that it is running lemmy 0.19. You can do so by going to the community list -> header ellipse icon -> instance sidebar -> version listed at end of instance statistics.

This deadline will only be extended if lemmy.world is unable to upgrade by March 18.

If you are self-hosting Voyager, you can continue connecting to a v0.18 instance past this date by staying on Voyager 1.x (I will be dropping lemmy 0.18 support as a major version bump).

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21 Comments

ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 36 pts · 2y (3 replies)

We don't have an exact date as of yet, but we will have lemmy.blahaj.zone upgraded within that time frame.

aeharding@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Thanks! I updated the post

ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

We're upgraded now

aeharding@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Awesome!

The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 2y

Voyager is dropping support for Lemmy...

Almost gave me a heart attack for a brief moment with that title. I use this app so damn much.

Fake4000@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 2y

Drop support of Lemmy 18 on the 18th. Nice 👍

veeesix@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 2y

Thanks for all your hard work!

steal_your_face@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 2y

Thanks brother

Link@rentadrunk.org · 6 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Any reason why? Is it just to make maintenance easier or is there another reason?

aeharding@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Mostly because I don't want to spend my free time supporting outdated lemmy versions.

Blaze@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 2y

Makes sense, thank you for your work!

THE_MASTERMIND@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 2y

Great work as always

KillerTofu@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y (2 replies)

By going to the WHAT??!

aeharding@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 2y

the place with the thing

THE_MASTERMIND@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 2y

Just scroll down from your respective instance it will be at tge bottom

JoeKrogan@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

Thanks for all the hard work

urda@lebowski.social · 4 pts · 2y (2 replies)
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aeharding@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

good to hear 😊

urda@lebowski.social · 2 pts · 2y
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Blaze@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 2y

Thanks for the work and the heads up!

ZeroCool@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Just a heads up @aeharding@lemmy.world, today the beehaw.org admins have confirmed they are not planning to upgrade past 0.18.4 and are advising users to find another app.

https://beehaw.org/comment/2834318

aeharding@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Thanks! Yeah, I put a popup in app in the latest release so beehaw users have a few days at least to transition to something else.

urda@lebowski.social · -4 pts · 2y (2 replies)
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aeharding@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y (1 reply)

This deadline will only be extended if lemmy.world is unable to upgrade by March 18.

urda@lebowski.social · -2 pts · 2y
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