Seems it hasn't been fixed. 
I get this running ./nodebb dev
error: TypeError: Cannot read property 'maxCount' of undefined
at expandObjBy (/home/a_5mith/35hz/src/settings.js:7:14)
at /home/a_5mith/35hz/src/settings.js:83:7
at /home/a_5mith/35hz/src/meta.js:457:5
at try_callback (/home/a_5mith/35hz/node_modules/redis/index.js:573:9)
at RedisClient.return_reply (/home/a_5mith/35hz/node_modules/redis/index.js:661:13)
at ReplyParser.<anonymous> (/home/a_5mith/35hz/node_modules/redis/index.js:309:14)
at ReplyParser.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:95:17)
at ReplyParser.send_reply (/home/a_5mith/35hz/node_modules/redis/lib/parser/javascript.js:300:10)
at ReplyParser.execute (/home/a_5mith/35hz/node_modules/redis/lib/parser/javascript.js:211:22)
at RedisClient.on_data (/home/a_5mith/35hz/node_modules/redis/index.js:534:27)
TypeError: Cannot read property '_csrf' of undefined
at Object.handle (/home/a_5mith/35hz/node_modules/express/node_modules/connect/lib/middleware/csrf.js:45:28)
at next (/home/a_5mith/35hz/node_modules/express/node_modules/connect/lib/proto.js:190:15)
at Object.session [as handle] (/home/a_5mith/35hz/node_modules/express/node_modules/connect/lib/middleware/session.js:218:61)
at next (/home/a_5mith/35hz/node_modules/express/node_modules/connect/lib/proto.js:190:15)
at Object.cookieParser [as handle] (/home/a_5mith/35hz/node_modules/express/node_modules/connect/lib/middleware/cookieParser.js:60:5)
at next (/home/a_5mith/35hz/node_modules/express/node_modules/connect/lib/proto.js:190:15)
at multipart (/home/a_5mith/35hz/node_modules/express/node_modules/connect/lib/middleware/multipart.js:64:37)
at /home/a_5mith/35hz/node_modules/express/node_modules/connect/lib/middleware/bodyParser.js:57:9
at urlencoded (/home/a_5mith/35hz/node_modules/express/node_modules/connect/lib/middleware/urlencoded.js:51:37)
at /home/a_5mith/35hz/node_modules/express/node_modules/connect/lib/middleware/bodyParser.js:55:7
Oh and redis version is 2.8.4, not 2.8.9.
Ubuntu version is 14.04 if this helps.
Oh and everything worked fine until I tried enabling some plugins, installed and enabled, clicked Home to restart nodebb, page didn't change, so tried loading homepage, nada, have reset all plugins, still getting the issue.
Edit: a quick git pull (1 deletion) & ./nodebb upgrade later and it seems to be ok, one of the plugins seems to be the cause. Trying to figure out which one.