Please see the following issues for breaking changes to plugins and themes.
https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3A"breaking+change+(plugins)"+milestone%3A1.8.0+is%3Aclosed
https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues?q=is%3Aissue+milestone%3A1.8.0+label%3A"breaking+change+(themes)"+is%3Aclosed
If you have plugins that are affected, please update your plugin and add the below to your package.json
"nbbpm": {
"compatibility": "^1.8.0"
}
to your package.json.
To implement spiders as a system group we are making a breaking change in 1.8.0. If you are using req.uid to determine if a user was logged in or not in your plugins you need to change it to req.loggedIn. req.uid used to work because logged in users always had a positive uid and guests had a uid of 0. With 1.8.0 spiders will have a uid of -1 so we added a loggedIn property on the request object.
Nice work 
Will do!
Hi folks, congratulations with the release. I am looking forward to install it. Should I run this on a staging environment? How do I know if the plugins are working, is there a whitelist somewhere? I am using question-and-answer but it doesn't have the compatibility flag in package.json.
