Please see the following issues for breaking changes to plugins and themes.
Node.js based forum software built for the modern web - Issues · NodeBB/NodeBB
GitHub (github.com)
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.
Something that I miss from other forum software, is how search engine spiders were classified in an alternative manner from guests. This allowed you to set it so that spiders could view topics but guests could not. Building in spiders as...
GitHub (github.com)
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 .
