NodeBB

Release build (minor) of NodeBB @ 2026-01-14T17:54:33.964Z

v4.8.0 (2026-01-14)

Documentation Changes

• update openapi schema for missing routes related to crossposting (d81b644d)

New Features

• user crossposts federate as:Announce (273bc68c)
• add missing files, minor changes to crossposts list modal (38fd1798)
• introduce new front-end UI button for cross-posting, hide move on topics in remote cids (0041cfe2)
• disallow moving topics to and from remote categories, + basic tests for topic moving (ea1e4c7d)
• API v3 calls to crosspost and uncrosspost a topic to and from a category (74172ecc)
• refactor out.announce.topic to allow user announces, refactor tests to accommodate (874ffd7b)
• stop extraneous vote and tids_read data from being saved for remote users (097d0802)
• support remote Dislike activity, federate out a Dislike on downvote, bwahahah (528cd258)
• expand postingRestrictedToMods mask testing, handle actor update for that prop (6a561050)
• setAddBulk (#13805) (7d5402fe)
• save privilege masking set when asserting group (f0a7a442)
• patch low-level privilege query calls to accept privilege masks at the cid level (4020e1be)
• federate out topic removal activities when topic is deleted and purged from a local category (3ab61615)

Bug Fixes

• i18n fallbacks (a73ab8ee)
• #13889, custom emoji from Piefed (0c75934a)
• #13888, decode html entities for AP category name and description (6eea4df5)
• derp (bcc204fa)
• bump themes (a4c470ff)
• guard against negative uids crossposting (2f96eed4)
• bump themes (943b53b0)
• calling sortedSetRemove to remove multiple values, instead of baking it into sortedSetRemoveBulk (82507c0f)
• unused values (b9b33f9f)
• typo, client-side handling of crossposts as pertains to uncategorized topics (7465762d)
• client-side handling of category selector when cross-posting so only local cids are sent to backend (ea417b06)
• update category sync logic to utilise crossposts instead (e5ee52e5)
• remove old remote user to remote category migration logic + tests (28249efb)
• update auto-categorization rules to also handle already-categorized topics via crosspost (148663c5)
• topic crosspost delete and purge handling (f6cc556d)
• bug where privileges users could not uncrosspost others’ crossposts. Tests (0a0a7da9)
• allow non-mods to crosspost, move crosspost button out of topic tools, in-modal state updates (6daaad81)
• removed ajaxify refresh on crosspost commit, dynamically update post stats in template, logic fix (b981082d)
• nodeinfo route to publish federation.enabled in metadata section (14aa2bee)
• bump link-preview again (74e47820)
• bump link-preview (486e77c7)
• remove commented out require (ffc3d279)
• bump link-preview (cc1649e0)
• auto-enable post queue as default, adjust tests to compensate (9390ccb6)
• remove bidiControls from notification.bodyShort (b0679cad)
• author of boosted content was not targeted in the activity (b05199d8)
• closes #13872, use translator.compile for notification text (5a031d01)
• #13715, dont reduce hardcap if usersPerPage is < 50 (cb31e70e)
• dont use sass-embedded on freebsd, #13867 (b7de0cc7)
• wrong increment value (20918b52)
• increment progress on upgrade script (8abe0dfa)
• add join-lemmy context for outgoing category group actors context prop (f1d50c35)
• use setsAdd (d8e55d58)
• missing await (4a6dcf1a)
• admin privilege overrides only apply to local categories (7b194c69)
• have notes.assert call out.announce.topic only if uid is set (so, if note assertion is called via search; manual pull) (3b7bcba6)
• deep clone activity prop before execution; feps.announce (977a67f4)
• minor comment fix (411baa21)
• publish postingRestrictedToMods property in group actor (c365c1dc)

Other Changes

• fix… tests (d20906b5)
• still broken… more debug logs (a82e1f44)
• log mock results (8236b594)

Refactors

• check if tid is truthy (0e1ccfc9)
• crossposts.get to return limited category data (name, icon, etc.), fixed up crosspost modal to hide uncategorized and all categories options (349b0875)
• move crosspost methods into their own file in src/topics (1be88ca0)
• silence if-function deprecation on prod (403230cc)
• clear quick reply as soon as submitting (a331f8da)

Tests

• intify uid/cid if they are numbers (when getting crossposts) (47e37ed5)
• stop using partialDeepStrictEqual for now (0677689a)
• ensure auto-cat and cat sync logic properly integrates with crossposts (add163a4)
• crossposting behaviour and logic tests (947676ef)
• new test file for crossposts (3560b6a3)
• additional logic to allow multi-typing in schema type (4f1fa2d1)
• lowercase tags (81cac015)
• fix test to check for Secure in cookie string if test runner domain is https (5954015e)
• more out.announce tests (cfdbbb04)
• basic tests for activitypub.out (67912dc9)
• update activitypub._sent to save targets as well, updated tests to accommodate format change (41368ef8)
• test runs should not actually federate activities out (483ab083)
• check if tests pass without await (5414cf47)
• add back logs for failing test (301b5386)
• add a test for set db.exists (#13809) (69562704)
• fix failing test by adjusting the tests (c5292442)
• privilege masking tests (934e6be9)
• log label (22d3c523)
• log activities (e39c9149)
• on test fail show activities (841bd825)
• new mongodb deps (#13793) (287b2569)