Lemmy Development Update November 2025

We're still working hard on the 1.0 release, needing a few more major additions to lemmy-ui, and some less critical items for lemmy.

Then it will be a period of performance and bug testing, as well as giving time to allow app devs to update to the API changes.

The major changes during November were:

• Upgrade to latest Rust version 1.91 (after being stuck with 1.81 for over a year)
• Backwards compatibility with API v3
• Multi-community UI
• Adding an estimated time till approval to the signup page
• Merged modlog tables

::: spoiler Full list of changes by user

flamingos-cant

• Fix truncate_for_db

dessalines

• Use rusts Url::parse with post_url_only
• Add test for backslashes in urls.
• Adding multi-community counts, and full querying to list_multi_communities
• Mark post or comment notif as read after liking.
• Upgrading pg_format to 5.8
• Adding multi_communities_created to PersonDetails, and multi_community_follows to MyUserInfo
• Adding a last_application_duration_seconds field to GetSite.
• Adding multi_community_name to list_posts.
• Fixing ModlogKind comment.
• Updating .rustfmt edition to 2024
• Use a jauderho/prettier docker image.
• Upgrade inferno to 9.0.5
• Adding post_url_only to search page.
• Fixing show-score logic
• Adding an estimated time till approval to the signup page.
• Multi community support
• Open text post links in new tab (if setting exists).
• Fixing fastlane changelog

Nutomic

• Restore Activitypub audience field
• Sidebar federation
• Support more api v3
• Pull in rate limiter logic
• Compile db view joins in parallel, add instance join
• Various API route changes
• Disable old Mastodon workaround for empty names
• Fixes for merge modlog migration
• Notify mod actions fixes
• Change multi_community_user to system_account
• Crate lemmy_diesel_utils
• Add helper methods for resolve
• Add missing attribute optional_fields for ModlogView
• Support api v3
• Upgrade to latest stable Rust (fixes #6006)
• Show list of active plugins in sidebar
• Fix bug which prevented setting registration to open
• Fix bug with comments pagination (fixes #3612)
• Dont alter crosspost body for own post (fixes #3603)
• Notify about mod actions (fixes #3488)
• In image upload form hide preview and delete button if none
• Enable blank issues
• Merge modlog tables
• Make instance page working again (fixes #3571)

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Or see the full list of changes at the links below:

• Backend
• Frontend
• Jerboa

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An open source project the size of Lemmy needs constant work to manage the project, implement new features and fix bugs. Dessalines and Nutomic work full-time on these tasks and more. As there is no advertising or tracking, all of our work is funded through donations. Even so there is barely enough time in the day, and no time for a second job. The only available option are user donations.

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