Hello Everyone !

Today we are releasing NodeBB 3.12.0. Please read below for all the changes in this release.

Custom User Fields Visibility ️

3.11.0 added support for custom user fields and right after release we got a request to control the visibility of the fields since they were all public. With 3.12.0 you can pick from three different options to make the fields visible to everyone, logged in users or privileged users.

Keep Original Image Option ️

NodeBB has an option for image uploads which resizes images that are over a certain width down to a specified width and use that smaller image in the post.

This helps save bandwidth when loading topics with lots of images. However it causes more disk usage since both the original image and the resized image is kept on disk. We have added a new option "Keep original image after resize" if this is turned off then the image will be resized and the original will be overwritten resulting in only one image on disk.

New "Starter" Hosting Plan

We have released a new hosting plan on our managed NodeBB hosting platform. This is our cheapest plan ever at $20/month (or $18/month if paid annually). It includes all the core NodeBB functionality except:

1. No custom domain (you get a <yourforum>.nodebb.com domain)
2. No custom plugins (plugins that are bundled are available)
3. Weekly backups instead of daily
4. Less pageviews and storage than our Hamlet plan.

Bug fixes & Misc

Full list of closed issues.

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

Very good ^^

Thank you all

Hey, the custom user field is a great feature, well done. Are there plans to add this functionality to categories? I tried to find a previous discussion on this but was unsuccessful, so I apologize if this is not the right place. The only recent comments I could find were about how adding custom fields should be "easier" because there is less concern for leaking data. Custom fields for categories is a necessity for my project and I dont want to reinvent the wheel. If there are no plans for this, I'd appreciate any guidance on the possiblilty of reusing the custom user field code and applying it to categories, or what the current best approach is for this. Thank you very much!

Hi @interested, can you give us an example of what you mean by a custom field for a category?