Timeplan for 1.13.0?

[magnusvhendin]

As the subject states. Is there a timeplan for 1.13.0. As I understand there will be some big rewrites required for API-heavy plugins and themes.

As an outsider it looks like most of the work is done on your part?
https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/milestone/87

[baris]

1.13.0 Breaking chagnes are documented here https://community.nodebb.org/topic/14126/1-13-0-breaking-changes. If your plugin isn't affected by those there is no need for changes.

Starting with 1.13.0 nodebb will support both async/await and callback style. So all existing plugins which use the callback style should still work.

As for timeplan

[oplik0]

Starting with 1.13.0 nodebb will support both async/await and callback style. So all existing plugins which use the callback style should still work.

Yup. It's the other way around that things break - if you use async/await in your plugin you can't run it on NodeBB <1.13. From experience writing plugin on a dev environment based on current master branch

Unless you have a fallback with something like util.promisify... Hmm... Can a plugin get NodeBB version number from static:app.load hook (or get it using require)?

[baris]

You can get the version from package.json with require.main.require('./package.json').version

It is a better idea to use

"nbbpm": {
    "compatibility": "^1.13.0"
  }

In your plugin's package.json if you are using async/await so that your plugin does not get listed for nodebbs below 1.13.0.

[magnusvhendin]

Thank you @baris for the swift response. I have no need for backwards compatibility in my theme, so I think I will hold off on bigger changes.