Today we released v4.5.0 of NodeBB, which contains a multitude of fixes, refactors, and several new AP-related features.

Dependency Updates

• connect-multiparty was replaced with multer for multi-part request body handling
• ioredis was replaced with node-redis as the former was deprecated with the latter being the recommended replacement

Chat and notification updates

• Administrators are now able to toggle the chat join and leave messages in chat rooms
• Clicking "mark all read" on the notification page now marks only those matching the filter, read

Analytics updates

• Page requests from ActivityPub now correctly increment the unique visitors metric

ActivityPub

• Top-level posts (OP) federating out now contain a summary of roughly the first 500 characters, instead of sending the entire post content
• Two-way Relay support (Litepub-style)
• Auto-categorization logic for incoming post content from remote sources
• Ability to add remote categories to the forum index