## What is Lemmy? Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top. ## Major Changes This release includes major improvements to performance, specifically optimizations of database queries. Special thanks to @phiresky, @ruud, @sunaurus and many others for investigating these. Additionally this version includes a fix for another cross-site scripting vulnerability. For these reasons instance admins should upgrade as soon as possible. As promised, captchas are supported again. And as usual there are countless bug fixes and minor improvements, many of them contributed by community members. ## Upgrade instructions Follow the upgrade instructions for ansible [https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible#upgrading] or docker [https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/install_docker.html#updating]. If you need help with the upgrade, you can ask in our support forum [https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support] or on the Matrix Chat [https://matrix.to/#/#lemmy-admin-support-topics:discuss.online]. ## Support development We (@dessalines and @nutomic) have been working full-time on Lemmy for almost three years. This is largely thanks to support from NLnet foundation [https://nlnet.nl/]. If you like using Lemmy, and want to make sure that we will always be available to work full time building it, consider donating to support its development [https://join-lemmy.org/donate]. No one likes recurring donations, but they’ve proven to be the only way that open-source software like Lemmy can stay independent and alive.