Version History & Roadmap

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Version History / Release Notes

0.9.0

• Two new languages: Galician and Slovenian
• Better multi-tab handling of chats, other assorted UI fixes
  • Also this
• GET routes for accessing certain resources via their id
• Customisable email templates
• Ability to merge SSO logins/accounts, and showing SSO associations on user profile
• Removed dependency on imagemagick, in favour of jimp
• action:email.send now filter:email.send
• Admins can now configure the page title bar layout
• Meta info for a post, if linked, shows proper post data instead of OP
• Many fixes to infinite scrolling
  • Also this
• Added a warning if a reply is requested for a topic older than x days
• A guest with a different language override will no longer register to see everything in English
• Certain user management actions now require a password
• Flagging enhancements
• Better support for apple touch icons or other mobile touch icons
• Gravatar dependency removed from core
• New account profile pages design

0.8.2

• User join requests now send a notification to the owners
• New hook filter:group.create
• Fixed bug where admins weren't actually owners of the administrative group
• Ability to remove uploaded avatar
• Standardised presence/placement of breadcrumbs on all pages
• Added hooks for ownership changes for groups
• Added maximum length for chat
• UI fixes for chat
• Admins can now disable username changing
• Post purging now separate from editing
• Ability to reset a picked skin

0.8.1

• Default registration confirmation expiry time increased
• Ability to delete site logo

0.8.0

• New Language! Kinyarwanda (rw)
• Updates to subcategory logic to work better with multiple levels
• A From value can be set for emails coming from NodeBB
• Approved user registrations will mark the notification as read for other administrators now
• Widget titles can now be localised
• Call the active composer plugin for performing reply actions
• Better page titles

0.7.3

• New Language: Kinyarwanda (rw)
  • Speak Kinyarwanda? Help us translate!
• Some javascript libraries that were requesting non-minified versions are now requesting minified versions
• Better IE9 support
• Favicons now work better on subfolder installations
• Site logos now show up in maintenance mode

0.7.2

• Category Descriptions are now parsed like posts
• Languages can be set on-the-fly via a query parameter, that overrides the user or system setting, temporarily
• Better chat UX with using NodeBB with multiple tabs

For a full list of issues for this milestone see https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues?q=is%3Aissue+milestone%3A0.7.2+is%3Aclosed

0.7.1

• Added a pre-initialisation hook for plugins to use
• User's "last online" metric is updated if they make a new post
• Sped up groups and groups searching performance when a large number of groups is present
• If no emailer or search plugin is installed, a helpful tooltip is now present
• You can now click "Accept All" in groups' member management pages to accept all pending members
• Added option to allow guests to search for users
• Added pagination to /groups
• Added option to disable post deletion
• Admins can now see ban/delete user on user profile pages
• Added registration queue functionality
  • Also #2638
  • and #3271
• Ability to search users by group
• Moved the composer out into its own plugin
• Made NodeBB dependency requirements tougher -- if a package is out of date, NodeBB will now refuse to start
• Teasers can now be customised to show OP instead of the last reply
• Added "User Map" page to see who is browsing where
• Ability to invite users to groups
• Ability to specify a parent category immediately on category creation
• SSO Plugins can now specify where to send users after sign in is complete (c/o @APXEOLOG)

For a full list of issues for this milestone see https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues?q=is%3Aissue+milestone%3A0.7.1+is%3Aclosed

0.7.0

• Navigation panel can now be customised
• Clicking a user's avatar in the notifications dropdown takes you to their profile now
• Better mobile composer compatibility
• New widget: Suggested Topics
• The homepage route can now be set to a different page (e.g. /recent, /unread)
• Config option added to limit post editing after an arbitrary time limit
• Better flags sorting in admin interface
• Topics can now be posted as locked
• Use of the NodeBB Package Manager to populate the plugins list
• When creating a new post, you are sent to that post
• Better category administration interface
• OP now has a limited set of extra privileges pertaining to his post/topic
• Plugin authors can now include entire directories for CSS/LESS
• Login via username can be disabled
• Tags' character limit enforced on client-side as well as server-side
• Ability to resent account activation email from ACP
• Integration with Mandrill emailer plugin to allow reply-by-email
• New route in user profile to see that user's posts
• Ability for group owners to kick group members
• New interface for handling of category privileges
• ACP: uploading incorrect image filetypes will show a better error now
• Composer formatting toolbar is no longer hard-coded and can be extended by plugins
• Plugins can now be re-ordered to change their execution order
• Basic rewards integration
• Changed the handling of read/unread notifications in the drop down menu
• Plugins can now override the local login strategy to utilise alternative processing for received username/password
• Ability to create a new topic from the Recent Posts page
• Added password expiry controls so that a password security policy can be put into place if desired
• Post previews on the home page now show posts from subcategories as well
• Removed reputation thresholds system
• The posts list in a user's profile is now paginated
• Web Installer
• Fixed an XSS vulnerability (Exposed via bundled Markdown plugin) that would allow specially crafted links to execute arbitrary javascript (CVE-2015-3296)

0.6.1

• Ability to disable public group creation
• "Maximum post length" is now definable in ACP
• Ability to clear sitemap cache on-demand
• For devs -- Settings version 2 now supports multi-select inputs
• For devs -- Groups are now equipped with slugs, for easier referencing
• Group updates will call a new plugin hook
• Upgraded several static pages to utilise new breadcrumb system
• Introduced concept of user-created and private groups
• Template helpers are available on the client-side as well as server-side, now
• For devs -- Plugins now only need to report their name, description, and homepage
• Guests are now allowed to specify a handle when posting
• Moderators are now notified when a flag is made in a category they moderate
• Socket.io transports can now be specified in the ACP
• IP Addresses now recorded for event logging
• Introduce new ways to sort a topic's posts
• Groups can now actually be mentioned
• Fixed a regression caused by connect-mongo and mongodb versions not being locked down (6858a250c96c6cf757fde2fd2f06bf30fb0fe647)
• Fixed an XSS vulnerability (Exposed via bundled Markdown plugin) that would allow specially crafted links to execute arbitrary javascript (CVE-2015-3296)
• Various other bug fixes

0.6.0

• New Language: Bengali (bn), Greek (el)
• Better error messages shown to users when attempting to chat without a confirmed email
• post.move filter
• NodeBB won't crash when errors are present in a plugins's plugin.json file
• IP tracking per post
• Ability to bind to a unix domain socket
• Timestamp in topics with no posts are now clickable
• User search via IP address
• Better cache expiry for developers
• 404 Not Found page will tell you what page was not found
• Update to socket.io 1.x
• RSS feed for user's topics
• Ability to track IP per post
• Search users by IP
• Search users by email
• Allow binding to unix domain socket
• Better messaging when sending chat message if email is not confirmed
• Do not steal focus from composer if chat message arrives
• Deprecate websocketAdress
• New hook for post move
• No replies should link to topic
• Show email confirm alert
• Group page privilege fix
• 404 page should show what URL was not found
• Keep users that are subscibed to digests in sorted sets
• Log errors in loader.js
• Ability to see # of flags against a user, ability to reset flags
• Save rendered custom css instead of doing on every renderHeader
• Ability to clear advanced logs
• In-Topic searching tweaks
• Ability to prevent links and/or images in signatures
• Update to less 2.0
• ./nodebb reset displays options
• If ToS is set create a /tos route as well
• Ability to delete tags from manage/tags
• Use package manager for suggestions
• Track user's topics in a category
• Bundle nodebb-plugin-spam-be-gone with nodebb
• Ability to send password reset email from ACP
• Show plugin versions in plugin list
• Ability to update plugins from ACP
• Various relative path fixes
• Various bug fixes & performance improvements

For a full list of issues for this milestone see https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues?page=6&q=milestone%3A0.6.0+is%3Aclosed

0.5.3

• Bugfixes and usability fixes
• Sitemap now i18n compatible
• New Responsible Disclosure instructions
• Uploaded files can be made private (registered users only)
• Administrators always have access to all categories, even if the Group Permissions don't allow it

0.5.2

Note: v0.5.2 contains a security update, all NodeBB owners are encouraged to update as soon as possible.

• Updates to the new ACP Graph code
• Listing of banned users
• Ability to read the NodeBB log from the ACP
• Multiple tag editing
• User emails can be validated via ACP
• Full names can now be shown/hidden
• A user's profile now shows what groups they belong to
• All posts that have been flagged can now be reviewed in the ACP
• Better organisation of the public/uploads folder
• Ability to specify a URL for imgur uploads
• Maintenance Mode setting

0.5.1

• Moved topics/posts send a notification to the owner
• Password hashing/comparison no longer blocks the main thread
• Avatar size restrictions can now be set via ACP
• Notification sent when you gain a new follower
• ACP ability to reset an account lockout
• /popular now can show the most popular posts of all time
• Composer category dropdown
• Ability to reduce the number of topics returned in /unread, /popular, and /recent
• Tag colours!
• Clicking on an image in a post will open that image in a new tab
• Ability for users to delete/close their accounts
• Tag limitations
• Ability to ignore categories
• Group badges go to the group page
• Replying to a topic automatically subscribes you to that topic
• ACP ability to set a minimum threshold required for flagging posts
• Disabling of downvoting
• New "Reload" ability -- re-compiles and re-minifies client-side assets and templates
• In-Topic searching
• Zero-second restarting
• Basic support for subcategories (also this)
• Ability to show more recent chats
• Recent Posts in a user's profile can now scroll
• Clicking on the confirmation alert when forking a topic will take you to the new topic
• Widgets scalability updates
• Recent post data is now shown in subcategory object hash
• Opening /chats route as guest will prompt a login
• Ability to load older chats
• Searches can now contain the / character
• Better reloader handling (also this)
• Multi-Core support via cluster module
• If NodeBB can't find the "templates" directory defined in a theme, it will try templates/ first before falling back to vanilla
• Favouring Redis for session and socket.io pub/sub handing when applicable
• Ability to be notified via email when a new chat message is received
• CSRF is now only included on pages that do POSTs
• Remote pictures can be linked to as an avatar
• Cold load performance upgrades
• Sending of chat messages will no longer make a sound
• If custom css is not defined but used, NodeBB no longer crashes
• Entering a topic requiring a login will return you there afterwards
• Better log rotation

0.5.0

• New Languages - Korean (ko), Romanian (ro)
• Privilege system expanded to allow groups and finer-grained controls
• Privilege system optimizations
• "Guests" are now a system group
• Install process no longer needs to ask for port usage -- will infer from given arugments
• Tagging system
• Groups can now be mentioned
• Groups have their own pages
• Themes can now overwrite the home page route
• Custom CSS is now minified as well
• Plugins can now specify compatibility versions
• Development mode provides source map
• Verification email can be resent
• New hook for image post-processing
• Custom Javascript (like custom CSS)
• Ability to purge posts
• Enhancements to group details modal
• Usability enhancements to Users page in ACP
• Notifications system can hold more than just text now
• Composer live preview instead of tabbed interface (Addendum)
• Paginator buttons can now take you to the top and bottom of the topic, not just page by page
• Emails are now translatable
• Express 4.0 compatibility
• Plugin scripts can be a directory now
• A special composer is sent to mobile clients
• A dedicated route/page for chats
• Widgets are now loaded with the rest of the page, not after. SEO++
• Revision to email behaviour, daily digests will be sent out for all subscribed users even if they have no new notifications
• Topic post sorting
• Group name changing
• Ability to not show the site title, even if defined
• A new type of hook: static
• Optimising the minification step when NodeBB starts
• Reducing duplicates in notifications, esp. involving plugins
• Allowing admins to change the domain that web sockets are sent to/from
• Plugin page now shows "For more information" link for all plugins, not just installed ones
• User.getUsersData can now be modified via hook
• Recent Searches Widget
• NodeBB Setup will no longer overwrite the active theme
• Ability to send a test email
• NodeBB now pinnable to Windows 8/Phone
• Link to registration now present in login page
• Chat message notifications now appear in the chat dropdown
• Account confirmation emails can be resent

0.4.3

This release is a security update that addresses an issue affecting all 0.4.x versions of NodeBB. Administrators are advised to update as soon as possible.

• Custom content can be added to the post composer's "Help" tab
• Account locking after configurable # of unsuccessful login attemps
• Multiple flags auto-ban a user
• Better handling of access to pages that require login
• Daily digest emails now opt-in instead of opt-out
• Tweaked avatar resizing

0.4.2

• New Languages - American English (en_US), Japanese (jp), Lithuanian (lt), Malay (ms)
• Better Groups handling and integration with Mentions plugin
• User selectable languages
• Better robot detection for registration via Project Honey Pot plugin
• Updating a theme's package.json no longer requires the theme to be re-activated
• Languages can be selected by individual users
• "Username is typing" in chat window
• Email Digests
• Ability for plugins to use the sounds subsystem
• NodeBB won't automatically restart every time a plugin or theme is activated now
• Duplicate username handling
• LevelDB Support
• Ability to select multiple topics to move/delete/etc
• Guest posting problems resolved
• .getTeaser() endpoint
• Plugins can now also be installed/removed directly from the ACP
• Gravatar Fallbacks
• When you create a new topic, you will be sent there
• Modals can now be resized

v0.4.1

• New Languages - Estonian (et), and just for fun, Pirate English (en@pirate)
• Scrolling up will show a "Loading more Posts" indicator
• Widget system fixes
• Tweaks to how "Reply" and "Quote" buttons work
• ./nodebb reset fleshed out into four separate commands: plugins, themes, widgets, or all
• A user's profile now contains a list of topics they have created
• Log files now always contained in ./logs
• Fixed issue where a newly rendered post's options were reflective of the poster, and not of the viewer
• Fixed issue where the Bootswatch list wouldn't load if behind HTTPS
• Faster restarts
• Social Media share of the homepage should default to the forum brand first
• Fixed the user search page
• Username mentions less buggy
• SVGs now supported for category pictures
• When a user is deleted, they will also be immediately logged out
• Better options for marking "unread" messages as read
• Fixed broken Themes page if widget-essentials is not enabled

v0.4.0 (Notes)

• New Languages - Polish (pl), Dutch (nl), Thai (th), Sardinian (sc), Persian (fa_IR)
• Plugins can now use LESS stylesheets. Developers are encouraged to use LESS instead of CSS.
• Daily Digest emails - Sent only if you have unread notifications
• User Deletion
• Notifications Dropdown now shows user avatars
• Search subsystem modularified (see nodebb-plugin-dbsearch)
• Better SEO metadata
• Administrators can change user passwords
• Tracking of IP Addresses
• Widgets system for inclusion on non-standard elements (text/html snippets, etc)
• Sounds are played when notifications are received, and when chat messages are sent and received
• The "Recent Replies" block should update automatically when new posts arrive
• Users can now log in via an email address
• Chat modal now contains user status
• Better avatar cropping
• Notifications when posts are upvoted or favourited

v0.3.2

• New Languages - Swedish (sv), Russian (ru), Italian (it), and Hebrew (he)
• Flagging a post now requires a confirmation step
• Post composer UI enhancements
• Administrators can now see "invisible" users
• Upvoting and Downvoting
• Moderators
• Optional Pagination instead of infinite scrolling
• Ability to preview a post before submitting it
• Refactoring of the RSS system (thanks @miksago/@TeamKano!)
• Better handling of cache busters in non-git environments
• Optional themes_path in case your theme is not an npm package
• Warnings when a NodeBB install does not satisfy a plugin's minver
• Performance enhancements re: Notification pruning
• Ability to use a different config file if defined via --config flag
• Lots of bug fixes!

v0.3.1

• Traditional Chinese (zh_tw), Slovak (sk), Finnish (fi), Brazilian Portuguese (pt_br), Turkish (tr), Norwegian Bokmål (nb), and Hungarian (hu) languages have been added
• Translations now handled by Transifex
• Updates to the plugin system
• UI Fixes for the post composer
• Single sign on packages are their own npm packages now, reducing the size of the main core codebase
• Pagination, for those who really want pages
• Improvements to the mentions engine
• "Remember Me" option when logging in
• Tweaked permission control, users with no write access shouldn't see "Post/Reply" buttons anymore. Those without view permissions shouldn't be able to see hidden forums anymore.
• New User states (Away, Busy, Do Not Disturb)
• Post Flagging

v0.3.0 (Notes)

• Various security and bug fixes, dataset optimizations
• Revamped Email System (issues #326, #335)
• Support for four new languages, Italian (it) and Czech (cs), Simplified Chinese (zh_CN), and Arabic (ar)
• Topic forking
• Category outgoing links
• Moving posts between topics
• Support for usernames with unicode characters
• Ability to select board language via Admin Panel
• Ability to override the default robots.txt
• Ability to change usernames
• Fixed issue where client side was getting old client-side js
• Fixes to French translation
• New composer styling (at bottom of screen)
• Instant Messaging / Chat front-end rewritten
• Web Socket backend rewritten

v0.2.1

• Desktop Notifications (via Notifications API -- thanks @psychobunny)
• Chat Modal fixes (issues #690, #691, #697)
• Topic RSS feeds now working again (issue #703)
• Restriction on topic and category title lengths (issue #705)
• Unicode Slugs (issue #708)
• Social sharing buttons can now be hidden via admin panel option (issue #712)
• Upgrade steps have been simplified

v0.2.0

• Unread notifications are now automatically marked read when a topic is accessed (issue #219)
• Third-party plugins can now introduce scripts into NodeBB (issue #400)
• Privilege Thresholds can now be disabled, if desired (issue #528)
• Better responsive handling (issues #539, #552)
• New permissions system (issue #565)
• System-only user groups (issue #566)
• Ability to upload multiple images in multiple composers (issue #575)
• Search Re-indexing is no longer open to public (issue #579)
• Cache buster (issue #586)
• Notification count now shown in favicon (issue #610)
• Dropdown added to show recently chatted-with users (issue #615)
• Socket reconnection rejoins rooms that were inadvertently left on disconnection (issue #652)
• Language files for Spanish, French, and German
• Bug Fixes (#396, #435, #519, #553, #557, #560, #616, #619)

v0.1.1

v0.1.1 is contains several security fixes -- users are encouraged to upgrade to this version as soon as possible.

• Logging out should return you to where you were previously (issue #358)
• Fixed an issue with image uploading (issue #497)
• New installs should no longer ask you to update the schema (issue #502)
• Password reset is no longer available to people who have not set up email (issue #507)
• Clicking on incoming chats now works in the /notifications page (issue #514)
• Minor bug re: themes not switching properly (issue #517)
• Interstitial /outgoing page now refers to the site title, not "NodeBB" (issue #518)
• Google Analytics! (issue #522)
• Minor improvement to the composer (issue #525)
• Security issue re: /plugins/fireHook (issue #533)
• Made the Register/Login link more obvious (issue #535)
• Recent topics now have a corresponding RSS feed (issue #536)
• Categories can now be selected via hexadecimal colour codes (issue #540)

v0.1.0

• Better notifications handling (issue #219)
• Category ordering (issue #288)
• Stylistic revamp of the category view (topic listing) (issue #333)
• Dedicated notifications page (/notifications) (issue #336)
• Handling of expired notifications (issue #337)
• Updates to the admin panel (issue #338)
• New hooks: filter:avatar.get, action:avatar.save (issue #340)
• Ability to disable the /outgoing page on link click (issue #345)
• Changes to settings in the admin panel no longer require a restart (issue #353)
• Socket disconnections are less obtrusive (issue #354)
• Better handling of images on mobile responsive view (issue #374)
• NodeBB now responds properly to all hostnames (issue #375)
• Plugins can now route CSS files to be loaded (issue #383)
• /recent/ now lists topics from the last 7 days (issue #394)
• Fixes to the chat modal (issues #397, #434)
• Better SEO handling (theoretically...) (issue #401)
• More plugin hooks ([issues #402, #407)
• Better IE9 compatibility (issue #417)
• Theme engine now takes themes from NPM only (issue #418)
• Header brand can now be an image, text, or both (issue #425)
• Tweaks to the top bar (user profile) (issue #426)
• Themes can now use static assets (images, backgrounds, etc) (issue #427)
• The footer now only appears on the / route (issue #429)
• Updates to the way pinned topics are handled internally (issues #433, #457)
• Fixes to the privilege thresholds (issue #445)
• Username login in no longer case sensitive issue #448)
• Notification dropdown now properly handles long titles (issue #452)
• Locally installed plugins are no longer supported (issue #455)
• Added an "Admin" button to the top bar, for admins (issue #459)
• Banning a user now takes effect immediately (issue #462)
• Plugins can now be turned on and off without a server restart (issue #478)

v0.0.7 (Milestone issues)

• Bootstrap 3 integration (issues #168, #169)
• Release of a default theme to be shipped with NodeBB
• Dynamically updating page URL to show post (issue #185)
• Numerous updates to the chat module (issues #169, #208, #209, #210, #211, #213)
• Dedicated NodeBB Theme (issue #195)
• Topic-based notifications are automatically marked read if you go to the topic directly (issue #219)
• Category creation (issue #228)
• Better search results + user searching (issues #205, #229)
• User Groups (issue #230)
• nodebb-plugin-markdown now sanitizes HTML input by default (issues #214, #251)
• Fixed javascript-less view of NodeBB (issue #253)
• Dropped use of node-rss in favour of rss (issue #258)
• Links to RSS feeds are now shown in the breadcrumbs (issue #259)
• Maximum password length restriction removed (issue #261)
• Better installation script (issues #264, #265, #266, #275)
• Added Heroku support (dynamic port via the PORT environment variable)
• Minor refactoring of saved data (issues #286, #287, #303)
• Drag/drop uploaded images are now placed inline instead of attachment-style (issue #294)
• Automatic updating of timestamps (issue #306)
• CSRF fix for /logout route (issue #315)
• Reduce unnecessary calls to Redis (re: category view) (issues #320, #321)
• Online users' page (/users/online) (issue #323)
• Fixed script injection bug in post content (issue #329)
• Login and /outgoing cancelation now take you back to the previous page (issue #341)
• Asynchronous loading of middlewares (issue #349)
• Some changes to the admin panel no longer require a restart (issue #353)
• Revamped reconnection notification (issue #354)
• NodeBB now accessible via multiple addresses irrespective of base_url (issue #356)
• Ability to bind NodeBB to a specific IP address (issue #359)
• Topics now have a meta description tag (issue #362)

v0.0.6

• More user management options (bans, ip bans) (issue #125)
• Introduction of dedicated error.log, with better logging capability
• Fulltext search through Reds
• Chat logs are now saved (issue #109)
• Better page titles and notifications
• Username mentions (issue #164) - through use of nodebb-plugin-mentions package, included with all future installs
• Drag/Drop uploader fixes (Issues #172, #173, #174, #175, #182)
• Favourited posts are now accessible via the user profile
• You can no longer access a deleted topic via its URL (issue #198)
• Lots of bug fixes, stability upgrades, and refactoring to reduce technical debt

v0.0.5

• Basic plugin system (with hooks and sample plugins) (issue #143)
• Infinite scrolling on topics, categories and user pages (issue #141)
• Better page titles (issue #160)
• Improved notification handling (issue #137)
• Category removal/disable (issue #93)
• External link interpage (issue #154)

v0.0.4

• Theming manager to allow third-party bootstrap themes to be uploaded/installed (issue #92)
• Ability to add/delete categories in the admin panel (issue #93)
• sitemap.xml for better search engine indexing (issue #96)
• Fixed Twitter Registrations (issue #131)
• Open Graph tags present on most pages (issue #116)
• Improved post composer styling (issue #137, etc)
• Various UI fixes (issue #95, etc)
• Bugfixes and stability updates

v0.0.3 (Milestone Issues)

• Bugfixes and stability updates
• NodeBB can now be installed into a subfolder (e.g. example.org/forum)
• User and Category editing tools for the administration panel