We just released version 4.1.0 of NodeBB. Here are the latest features you can now take advantage of!
As an aside, for the first time in a long while, both @baris and I are working on the same codebase again. Up until version 4 was released, I’d been working on the activitypub branch and periodically merging in the latest changes from develop. It’s nice to be home! :house_with_garden:
Improved federation of Group actors :left_speech_bubble:
We’ve improved the activity synchronization for followed group actors. Local updates/likes/etc. are now federated outward by the category in addition to those from remote users. Thanks to @rimu@piefed.social and @freamon who worked with me on debugging this one.
Mentions and Emoji now federating out in source.content :wave:
Emoji and mentions have been sent out to followers since v4, but that wasn’t reflected in the raw markdown content that we also send along. That has been remediated now, and this change improves nodebb-to-nodebb federation.
Video object type now parseable :tv:
NodeBB is now able to ingest Peertube Video objects, and render then in a topic just like other pieces of content. Thanks @deadsuperhero@forum.wedistribute.org for prodding me to get this sorted out!
@kspatlas@kbin.earth loving how this is messing with AP instances everywhere lol.
I updated the timestamp but it doesn’t seem to have propagated over to your instance!
Yeah, right now this instance is not the best federate
@kspatlas@kbin.earth the post itself has the correct timestamp doesn’t it? I’m asking because I can’t really tell for sure since I’m unfamiliar with kbin/lemmy
@julian This post as it appears on kbin.earth thinks it’s from 11 months in the future, with a timestamp of 2026-02-27. It looks fine elsewhere though (e.g. on Lemmy). NodeBB has sent out some incorrect activities for this post, so I’m guessing that Lemmy fixed itself after processing a later Update, but MBIN didn’t get it or didn’t process it (I’m not that familiar with it, but it looks like no-one there is subscribed to either the category or you, so I don’t even know how they created it in the first place)
@freamon thanks, will have to mock up an update and send it their way specifically I guess.
@julian@community.nodebb.org Don’t worry about it; I have manually fixed the post’s timestamp to the correct time. It’s likely it didn’t receive an update because nobody has subscribed to the category (or followed your user).
@rimu@piefed.social @baris@kbin.earth @freamon@kbin.earth @kspatlas@kbin.earth @julian@kbin.earth @freamon@community.nodebb.org
@jwr1@kbin.earth interesting how the mentions for our local users (@julian and @baris) autocompleted with the kbin.earth domain.
@julian@community.nodebb.org Actually, it looks like the other remote users autocompleted with the kbin.earth domain as well. For example, freamon is from PieFed, not kbin.earth. I guess I’ll need to open a bug report with Mbin.
Oh wait, I just realized freamon is still from nodebb.