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Lemmy Development Update May 2026

14d 18h ago by lemmy.ml/u/nutomic in announcements@lemmy.ml

Last month we published the first beta for Lemmy 1.0. A lot of problems have already been reported and fixed. You can try the new features and visual updates in production by visiting the test server voyager.lemmy.ml. It is automatically updated to the latest development version every night. Please help by testing the new features and reporting any problems.

We also opened issues for the various open source Lemmy apps, to notify them of the upcoming API updates, and get ready for the 1.0 release. If there is any client that we missed, please let the developers know about the new version update.

You can follow our development progress with these milestone links:

If you have any experience with web development or want to learn it, consider contributing to lemmy-ui. It is written in standard Typescript with Bootstrap. If you have experience with Kotlin or Android development, you can help contribute to Lemmy's open source Android app, Jerboa.

Here are all the changes from May:

Full list of changes by repo

lemmy

lemmy-ui

joinlemmy-site

jerboa

lemmy-js-client

lemmy-client-rs

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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.

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your all amazing, keep up the amazing work

Wow that's a lot of fixes

Thx, although I still do wish we could scale up and get a few more full-time devs. Even if there were 10 of us, there'd still be years of work ahead.

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Fantastic work as always!

Thank you!!

has lemmy.ml ceased to be lemmy's testbed?

lemmy.ml is only a testbed insomuch as release candidates are deployed there. It’s not used for beta testing.

We are running a beta version on lemmy.ml right now. But it only has minor changes, I guess it should properly be called a release candidate too.

Whatever you want to call it, it’s distinct from what voyager is used for.

Right, 1.0 still needs some more months of development before it's ready for production.

Why do you think that? We are actually running a beta version right now.

Edit: or do you mean testing 1.0 on lemmy.ml? There are still various changes needed before it's ready for that.

i always thought that lemmy.ml was the testbed.