There's one more breaking change that I did not find documented anywhere.
For our theme we had to change:

	var templates = require('templates.js');
	templates.registerHelper('generateCategoryBorder', helpers.generateCategoryBorder);

to

	var Benchpress = require('benchpressjs');
	Benchpress.registerHelper('generateCategoryBorder', helpers.generateCategoryBorder);

Not a big deal but some folks might struggle to see why their template helpers don't work on server side.

@pitaj said in NodeBB v1.6.0 has been released!:

I suggest you try it. It has been tested with Gmail, but we haven't been able to test other providers there.

The switch offers no explanation and seems not to do anything.

The switch enables that configuration, but it only applies if an emailer plugin isn't activated.

OK, thanks for the explanation.

I think I will stick to the external SES plugin since, as far as I understand, this whole section is about using SMTP for sending e-mails which requires storing credentials in database. We use IAM roles to grant implicit permissions to use SES on instances that run our Forums - and nodebb-plugin-emailer-ses is able to pick that up.

Hi,

I am planning a migration from 1.5.3 to 1.6.0 and I am confused about e-mail sending.
Currently I am using nodebb-plugin-emailer-ses but now I see that "core" Email was rebuild and looks like this:

which also includes SES and SES-.... in the dropdown.
I am confused. Should I continue using the third-party plugin or does somehow core NodeBB knows how to talk to SES?

Also what is

Use an external email server to send mails

?

The switch offers no explanation and seems not to do anything.

Any help/clarifications will be welcome :-)

@julian how much memory did your forum consume when you decided to switch?

We think about using Amazon Elasticache as the DB backend so for us there is no argument of "sparing RAM for other things" since the instance is dedicated just for Redis - it's just a question of how big it should be :)

Also - is configuring NodeBB for mongo as a primary storage + redis for sessions documented somewhere?

Thanks for the numbers @Giggiux!

I am leaning towards Redis because I don't like how NodeBB structures data inside MongoDB - with Redis it is also not-so-pretty (well, that's how NoSQL operates), but at least I get a feeling that I can search and modify the database by hand, if necessary.

Hi,

I am part of a team that considers switching from old, legacy forum engine to NodeBB.
One of the unknowns we need to address is the amount of RAM our Redis instance would require.
Currently our Forums hold around 111k posts and little under 200k users (although I suspect lot of them are closed/banned/never used so the amount to move would be maybe half of that).

Can anyone that has experience running a forum of a similar scale on NodeBB chime in and provide stats about Redis memory usage?

Thanks in advance,
Artur.