Lemmy Development Update November 2025
6mon 17d ago by lemmy.ml/u/dessalines in announcements@lemmy.ml
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)
- 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
- 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_usertosystem_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)
Full list of changes by user
flamingos-cant
dessalines
Nutomic
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Or see the full list of changes at the links below:
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.
To keep it viable donations need to reach a minimum of 5000€ per month, resulting in a modest salary of 2500€ per developer. If that goal is reached we can stop worrying about money, and fully focus on improving the software for the benefit of all users and instances. We especially rely on recurring donations to secure the long-term development and make Lemmy the best it can be.
Thanks, the Backwards compatibility is huge for us! We have a bunch of users who depend on mlem or thunder, so I was assuming I'd have to wait until updated versions of both of those apps was released to upgrade rblind.
Exciting!
I also developed a plugin for automatic language tagging of posts/comments, it works quite well even on very short text. Will also put it on voyager.lemmy.ml soon.
Why is it not a part of the project itself if you don't mind me asking? i would imagine plugins are for the more opinionated or experimental features.
There are a few reasons:
- Test if the plugin system really works
- As an example for other plugins
- Avoid bloating Lemmy core with functionality that isnt needed by everyone
- With plugins its much easier to make adjustments or new releases, and no need to wait for a new Lemmy release (and no need to fork all of Lemmy for minor adjustments)
Is Multi-Community UI already available? I can see it is merged, but is it released?
No we are a long way off from a 1.0 release yet.
It will be available for testing on voyager.lemmy.ml soon.
You can try it now on voyager.
Thanks for the reminder and breakdown of donation. It isn't much, but I hope my coffee-sized recurring donation helps
Everything helps, thx! I'd much rather have many ppl doing smaller donations, than a few large donors.
Donated
Thx!
The backeards api compat is huge. Thanks for that!
Is Multi-community something similar to piefed's topics feature?
You can try it now on https://voyager.lemmy.ml/multi_communities
Yes just like that, and it will be compatible over federation.
Its like multi-reddits.
Ooh this is really great stuff. Thanks for all the amazing work :)