Edit : OK so the outage was less brief than expected. The upgrade of the 3GB pictrs database took over 1 hour, and the version 0.4 database is now 14.5 GB… But anyway, it seems to be working alright now!
We will upgrade pictrs today, from 0.3.1 to 0.4.4. This will enable us to switch to S3 storage later on, and is needed for more anti-CSAM tools. Outage should only involve picture uploads, and should be brief.
Are you manually updating Pictrs or is this included in the new lemmy update?
Newest update defaults to 0.4, but the latest version is 0.4.4. I don’t think there’s a significant difference.
But it looks like ruud stayed on 0.3.x until now because there’s a pretty serious migration between 0.3.x and 0.4.x