NodeBB releases

Release build (patch) of NodeBB @ 2026-05-01T15:26:56.971Z

v4.11.2 (2026-05-01)

Bug Fixes

• test manual dispatcher (3d969f0f)

Release build (patch) of NodeBB @ 2026-04-30T21:47:04.034Z

v4.11.1 (2026-04-30)

Bug Fixes

• #14203, checkCache.get returns null when fetch is used directly (af504352)

Release build (minor) of NodeBB @ 2026-04-30T14:53:15.781Z

v4.11.0 (2026-04-30)

Documentation Changes

• tinycon in api/config (b313bff9)

New Features

• #14186, tinycon config options in ACP (a46cc788)
• hide read notifications toggle in UCP, #14191 (5adeb127)
• handle announce(delete) (9c855794)
• add redirect limit and improved error handling for SSRF protection (7d416fc7)
• implement manual redirect handling in call() method (81ae8209)
• extend topic recipients with main post announcers (dc5378a9)
• extend pid handling to include main post announcers for non-root-level posts (f40582fd)
• add domain blocklist check in activitypub middleware (8e5e2086)
• ACP chart to show ap relay analytics (02ef509e)
• begin tracking relay sends/receipts for ap analytics (b8216c3f)
• show ap send error analytics in ACP (117736bc)
• start recording ap send failures as well (55d7ab6f)
• timestamp in ap errors page (55ce9c07)
• ap/errors acp page (2699fd22)
• cron job to clear out old ap errors (bfe0df73)
• integrate ap.inErr analytics into federation analytics chart (188e2b10)
• record AP parsing failures, save activity in db for 24h (f008a65e)
• hourly and daily terms for ap analytics (54893c81)
• track and show sent activities as well (0b80cf1c)
• basic federation analytics with filtering by host (9e5312a1)
• track user cids (#14114) (781ed344)
• Third-party blocklists (#14115) (4b7be68d)
• public/openapi/read.yaml: add analytics and errors routes (c4eeffc3)
• public/openapi: add OpenAPI v3 specifications for admin/federation/analytics and errors routes (7f81b541)

Bug Fixes

• uri in fetchPublicKey must be https (daeed7be)
• cache failed requests to fetchPublicKey (515361e0)
• use requests.get instead of activitypub.get for fetchPublicKey, no redirects (bc91ed7e)
• parse emoji in remote DMs (ccc73357)
• #14152, handle cases where cids are passed into getUsersFields (82ca09db)
• proper ap undo verb called when unvoting, cc @panosda (47e7bfd9)
• typo, cc @panosda (9d052d63)
• handle Undo(Dislike), cc @panosda (479bb753)
• missing await, cc @panosda (1da14052)
• prevent skip link from being visibly focused for non-screen-reader users (585f81c2)
• #13617 refocus skip link after template rendering (f0dfd070)
• remove duplicate delete ap test helper (7f3dfce5)
• deranged error (102b1215)
• don't interrupt redirect handling when manual redirect is passed-in in configs (bb45c52a)
• remove unused (also wrong) function (6d3d4fbf)
• returned object type in ap test (f631c8b6)
• #14181, don't remove relative_path from url if it's just prefix (8477b68c)
• handle remote objects reporting a local context, #14188 (ffab31bd)
• #14187, federate out note if no title, otherwise article. (a537e384)
• old upgrade script (8e035440)
• don't bubble up post-already-deleted error on inbox.delete (4ed6ef80)
• #14185, assert note if Like received to a post that doesn't already exist (48bf54b9)
• regression that caused likes to local content to fail parsing (cbd5a988)
• fix db require in ap analytics test (0a9121ef)
• hideSave no longer required, data prop (23a8af2e)
• call proper relays.out method (be68e0da)
• show activity type in ap errors acp page (3098836d)
• #14182, handle direct likes to remote content (3b336807)
• catch thrown errors in ap helpers._test (906ca044)
• relay analytics chart filtering by relay (dbf28251)
• bad export (cf231b65)
• tpl error (ac239209)
• properly log ap send errors to the appropriate analytics namespace (17b02574)
• send type in api response, trim whitespace from stacktrace, escape stack trace (1b663d3e)
• filter out expired errors, show error type (in or out) in template (e22d2e41)
• more surprising shit from AI written test file (80589eb6)
• leftover debug log (0cca729a)
• qwen's shitty test suite (b7ba1125)
• fucking ai (e751721a)
• wrong var (c9a0c3ff)
• memberPostCids saving, closes #14170 (4c0efe53)
• changed args in activitypub.sign (490963fb)
• failing test due to expected thrown exception (5f5fa093)
• remove reference to hallucinated schema, fix hideSave definitions (ef2a17f2)
• properly order the routes (28e173d6)
• lint (080aac51)
• rejig AP errors UX (21c4fbc5)
• reverse args (621aaa0f)
• revrange (f097901f)
• wrong database key (818d621d)
• analytics job (9a981145)
• missing await (85cfcfa8)
• alpha sort instances (684f03db)
• remove commented-out lines (0956eba0)
• closes #14151, handle null req.body (5d5490d3)
• lint (7a0443c5)
• remove optional (4dfbd8d5)
• #14147, dont create wrong backlinks (a09192d4)
• add in a deduplication guard after calling contexts.getItems (b3600e0b)
• off-by-one error in helpers.generateCollection, fixed incorrect totalItems count between pages in Actors.topic (5a049168)
• wrap batch processing behind setImmediate() so that it runs on the next iteration of the event loop (531d20af)
• pre-calculate payload digest earlier in chain so that it is not unnecessarily done once per recipient (6371528f)
• dynamically calculate batch size and interval when sending AP messages, based on CPU count, #14138 (be442473)
• wrong set name (fa0b72e2)
• bad args sent to activitypub.record.send (ab3c39eb)
• rename 'activities' to 'received' in federation analytics (a58771ed)
• encode nid in client-side when marking notifications read/unread (4c1f6b1f)
• method name (e15b7ff7)
• do not plumb req.uid into notes.assert (breaks getParentChain) (ce4549c5)
• loosen actor-matching check in Undo activity (be347e67)
• ActivityPub.fetchPublicKey to better handle key IDs that return CryptographicKey objects, #14130 (c37a9103)
• #14130, set addressee on follow, undo(follow), and accept(follow) (f3eeec93)
• try a save point in retry (2185f22a)
• try upsert type if it fails (988f5136)
• make 'show more' button not overlap existing text (3c411711)
• #14045, automatically open category selector dropdown on move topic modal (2327cae7)
• redis/psql (deca5e67)
• failing test (833899d0)
• broken test (8547fa9e)
• regression where topic moves during Announce(Create(Note)) stopped working, added test for #14040, fix broken AP test helper mock (4d3211ca)
• avoid db calls in upgrade scripts, just add blocklists to db, no refresh (24bd0029)
• move AP pageviews middleware down the chain, after s2s assertion and http sig verification, so as to truly count AP requests (38901c0f)
• #14112, federation/rules and relays ACP pages not refreshing table properly on changes, basic form validation (f5e2a0f4)

Other Changes

• no ++ (f942a353)
• minor wording change re: ap analytics disclaimer (8cf0aeb9)
• remove unused (bc5457ef)
• remove unused (d290aa56)

Performance Improvements

• convert expireAt index to partial (e145330c)
• use $or instead of double $in, in sortedSetIncrByBulk (202a99bb)

Refactors

• remove from biweek sorted set as well (0a56c3ce)
• use one startsWith/indexOf (53afa24d)
• move ap analytics methods to its own file (20e17e63)
• ap error recording to also capture stack trace, prettify json on output (098ee291)
• activitypub inbox to throw errors directly, move reject to internal method, handle errors at controller level by calling internal reject method to bounce back an AP Reject, closes ##14150 (d74e5fab)
• replace old createSign/createVerify methods with more modern sign/verify, called asynchronously, add lru cache to public key fetches so that a received activity does not kick off a network request unnecessarily (448a76e1)
• some cleanup of dbal code (837d984b)
• use topic data returned from getSortedTopics instead of getting topic data twice lol (78bdc4a1)

Tests

• allow http uris in test mode (2e9417c4)
• add hideReadNotifications to openapi spec (b3748e71)
• add tests for Announce(Delete) handling in inbox (b8b25936)
• add type determination tests for Mocks.notes.public based on generatedTitle flag (a99f1237)
• fix up more ap tests (d724207e)
• activitypub third-party blocklists (30774a84)
• try undici 8 (#14166) (ae16a44a)
• another delete after create (65c2c844)
• fix unread deleted topic test (#14164) (39157907)
• dont create users parallel (09183ac0)
• remove leftover .only (25fb2969)