We just released version 4.1.0 of NodeBB. Here are the latest features you can now take advantage of!
As an aside, for the first time in a long while, both @baris and I are working on the same codebase again. Up until version 4 was released, I’d been working on the activitypub branch and periodically merging in the latest changes from develop. It’s nice to be home! :house_with_garden:
Improved federation of Group actors :left_speech_bubble:
We’ve improved the activity synchronization for followed group actors. Local updates/likes/etc. are now federated outward by the category in addition to those from remote users. Thanks to @[email protected] and @freamon who worked with me on debugging this one.
Mentions and Emoji now federating out in source.content :wave:
Emoji and mentions have been sent out to followers since v4, but that wasn’t reflected in the raw markdown content that we also send along. That has been remediated now, and this change improves nodebb-to-nodebb federation.
Video object type now parseable :tv:
NodeBB is now able to ingest Peertube Video objects, and render then in a topic just like other pieces of content. Thanks @[email protected] for prodding me to get this sorted out!
I made a post about this, where I tried to post into a Lemmy community and it didn’t arrive https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/13218 The example is contained in this thread https://community.nodebb.org/topic/18647/the-state-of-conversational-contexts-february-2025/24