NodeBB v4.5.0 — dependency updates, refactors, and AP improvements

Today we released v4.5.0 of NodeBB, which contains a multitude of fixes, refactors, and several new AP-related features.

Dependency Updates

• connect-multiparty was replaced with multer for multi-part request body handling
• ioredis was replaced with node-redis as the former was deprecated with the latter being the recommended replacement

Chat and notification updates

• Administrators are now able to toggle the chat join and leave messages in chat rooms
• Clicking “mark all read” on the notification page now marks only those matching the filter, read

Analytics updates

• Page requests from ActivityPub now correctly increment the unique visitors metric

ActivityPub

• Top-level posts (OP) federating out now contain a summary of roughly the first 500 characters, instead of sending the entire post content
• Two-way Relay support (Litepub-style)
• Auto-categorization logic for incoming post content from remote sources
• Ability to add remote categories to the forum index

Im getting an error when trying to use search:

2025-09-03T18:50:04.315Z [4567/1274390] - error: GET /api/search?_=1756925050948
error: operator does not exist: bigint = text
    at .../NodeBB/node_modules/pg-pool/index.js:45:11
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:105:5)
    at async exports.search (.../NodeBB/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-dbsearch/lib/postgres.js:94:15)
    at async search.filterSearchQuery [as method] (.../NodeBB/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-dbsearch/lib/dbsearch.js:201:29)
    at async fireMethod (.../NodeBB/src/plugins/hooks.js:170:11)
    at async Object.fireFilterHook [as filter] (.../NodeBB/src/plugins/hooks.js:177:12)
    at async Hooks.fire (.../NodeBB/src/plugins/hooks.js:106:17)
    at async doSearch (.../NodeBB/src/search.js:66:19)
    at async Promise.all (index 1)
    at async searchInContent (.../NodeBB/src/search.js:109:19)

Im using Ubuntu 24.04, PostgreSQL 17.6, nodebb-plugin-dbsearch 6.3.1

Today we released v4.5.0 of NodeBB, which contains a multitude of fixes, refactors, and several new AP-related features.

Dependency Updates

• connect-multiparty was replaced with multer for multi-part request body handling
• ioredis was replaced with node-redis as the former was deprecated with the latter being the recommended replacement

Chat and notification updates

• Administrators are now able to toggle the chat join and leave messages in chat rooms
• Clicking “mark all read” on the notification page now marks only those matching the filter, read

Analytics updates

• Page requests from ActivityPub now correctly increment the unique visitors metric

ActivityPub

• Top-level posts (OP) federating out now contain a summary of roughly the first 500 characters, instead of sending the entire post content
• Two-way Relay support (Litepub-style)
• Auto-categorization logic for incoming post content from remote sources
• Ability to add remote categories to the forum index

Today we released v4.5.0 of NodeBB, which contains a multitude of fixes, refactors, and several new AP-related features.

Dependency Updates

• connect-multiparty was replaced with multer for multi-part request body handling
• ioredis was replaced with node-redis as the former was deprecated with the latter being the recommended replacement

Chat and notification updates

• Administrators are now able to toggle the chat join and leave messages in chat rooms
• Clicking “mark all read” on the notification page now marks only those matching the filter, read

Analytics updates

• Page requests from ActivityPub now correctly increment the unique visitors metric

ActivityPub

• Top-level posts (OP) federating out now contain a summary of roughly the first 500 characters, instead of sending the entire post content
• Two-way Relay support (Litepub-style)
• Auto-categorization logic for incoming post content from remote sources
• Ability to add remote categories to the forum index

Today we released v4.5.0 of NodeBB, which contains a multitude of fixes, refactors, and several new AP-related features.

Dependency Updates

• connect-multiparty was replaced with multer for multi-part request body handling
• ioredis was replaced with node-redis as the former was deprecated with the latter being the recommended replacement

Chat and notification updates

• Administrators are now able to toggle the chat join and leave messages in chat rooms
• Clicking “mark all read” on the notification page now marks only those matching the filter, read

Analytics updates

• Page requests from ActivityPub now correctly increment the unique visitors metric

ActivityPub

• Top-level posts (OP) federating out now contain a summary of roughly the first 500 characters, instead of sending the entire post content
• Two-way Relay support (Litepub-style)
• Auto-categorization logic for incoming post content from remote sources
• Ability to add remote categories to the forum index

Today we released v4.5.0 of NodeBB, which contains a multitude of fixes, refactors, and several new AP-related features.

Dependency Updates

• connect-multiparty was replaced with multer for multi-part request body handling
• ioredis was replaced with node-redis as the former was deprecated with the latter being the recommended replacement

Chat and notification updates

• Administrators are now able to toggle the chat join and leave messages in chat rooms
• Clicking “mark all read” on the notification page now marks only those matching the filter, read

Analytics updates

• Page requests from ActivityPub now correctly increment the unique visitors metric

ActivityPub

• Top-level posts (OP) federating out now contain a summary of roughly the first 500 characters, instead of sending the entire post content
• Two-way Relay support (Litepub-style)
• Auto-categorization logic for incoming post content from remote sources
• Ability to add remote categories to the forum index

Today we released v4.5.0 of NodeBB, which contains a multitude of fixes, refactors, and several new AP-related features.

Dependency Updates

• connect-multiparty was replaced with multer for multi-part request body handling
• ioredis was replaced with node-redis as the former was deprecated with the latter being the recommended replacement

Chat and notification updates

• Administrators are now able to toggle the chat join and leave messages in chat rooms
• Clicking “mark all read” on the notification page now marks only those matching the filter, read

Analytics updates

• Page requests from ActivityPub now correctly increment the unique visitors metric

ActivityPub

• Top-level posts (OP) federating out now contain a summary of roughly the first 500 characters, instead of sending the entire post content
• Two-way Relay support (Litepub-style)
• Auto-categorization logic for incoming post content from remote sources
• Ability to add remote categories to the forum index

E-Mail notifications about new chat message doesn’t work after upgrading to 4.5.0 .
DB MongoDB version v7.0.23

Notifications is enabled, but not function properly after the upgrade.
Other notifications work fine, so far, so good…

Ah, it was partly my bad, nevertheless chat notification seems to be slowed down a bit.
As if a queue or polling has been implemented, with a delay of 2-3 minutes.
Is queue implemented for this kind of messages for now ?