NodeBB 3.4.0

<baris>

Note: Latest stable is v3.4.3

Hello!

We are back with another release that improves some of the features related to public chats that were added in 3.3.0.

Pinned chat messages

Starting with 3.4.0 room owners and administrators can pin chat messages. Pinned messages appear in a separate area that can be accessed from the room header. You can pin important messages so they can be easily found later.

Better notifications for public chat rooms

Public rooms were sending the same type of notification as private chats so it was hard to tell them apart. 3.4.0 improves this so the name of the room is visible in the notification for public chats.

See who is typing in chat rooms ️

A feature that was added long ago but got removed during one of our refactors is back. The changes in 3.3.0 allows implementing this much easier.

Chat message moderation

Admins and global moderators will be able to edit and delete other users chat messages.

Muted users won't be able to send chat messages.

Show alert if user's post is going to be queued ️

This educates new users about the post queue if it is enabled and also discourages manual spammers since they will know their post isn't going to show up in the forum when they submit.

Improved manage user options

We have added the ability to change a users password and email from the ACP and reorganized the manage users dropdown.

Bug fixes & Misc

As usual there are plenty of bug fixes in this release.

Full list of closed issues

Let us know if you run into any issues in our support thread

phenomlab

You guys are on

DownPW

Very very cool update

sweetp

yup the updated Dark admin theme is super nice

cagatay

wow thank you guys.

<baris>

@sweetp Yeah forgot to mention that, 3.4.0 has the updated dark sidebar as well

crazycells

@baris bug alert

when I am at: https://community.nodebb.org/me/chats/

I can use the reaction button... however it does not work when I open a chatbox while I am on the homepage...

<baris>

@crazycells do you mean a chat in a popup window?

crazycells

@baris yes.

firefox mozilla 117.0 (64-bit)

<baris>

Yeah I can reproduce. Issued https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/11985

<baris>

@crazycells reactions in chat modals should be fixed

crazycells

@baris yeap, it is fixed now. thanks.

brazzerstop

I recommend add overflow-auto to main-nav, when we have 15+ icons in left navigation menu and not big height window size, we can't view all icons.

Example:

For now the window height 540px and have visibility all icons in navbar:

Next we change window height and now we can't view other icons:

With overflow-auto we can fix this problem...

<baris>

@brazzerstop issued https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/11994

<baris>

Released 3.4.2 with the above fixes.

DownPW

Thank you @baris

Have you include the new french Translation we have add on transifex ?

<baris>

@DownPW I think those will be released wit 3.5.0, since all new translations go into the develop branch.

Teemberland

Love it, thank you!

DownPW

Small bug @baris

I created a chat room and I no longer have the rights to it.
Unable to rename the room or delete users

Obliged to log in with the Admin default account by and to restore my salon owner account to regain rights.

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<baris>

Was this a public or private chat? Does it only happen when you create the room with a non-admin user?