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<p>The NodeBB team wishes you a happy and healthy (and booster-filled!) holiday season! With rising case counts due to the Omicron variant threatening to put everything back on hold, it's looking like it might be a quiet winter once again.</p>

<p>As usual, the development team has been hard at work improving NodeBB — implementing new features and fixing bugs. In addition to that, we have a few updates from the housekeeping end of things.</p>

<h2>Staff Departures</h2>
<p>This month we're saying goodbye to two long-time members of the NodeBB family, Andrew Rodrigues and Eda Usakli.</p>
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 	<li>Andrew has been wanting to stretch his wings for quite some time, and has left the team to pursue new adventures. We wish him all the best.</li>
 	<li>Eda has decided to focus her energies on her family, and on her burgeoning career as a Mortgage specialist, best of luck!</li>
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<p>You both will be missed!</p>

<h2>On the Short Term Roadmap</h2>
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Late last month, we publicly disclosed <a href="https://nodebb.org/blog/security-vulnerability-disclosure-08-dec-2021/">a trio of security vulnerabilities</a> reported to us via our <a href="/bounty">Bug Bounty program</a>. We highly encourage all site administrators to upgrade to at least v1.18.5 of NodeBB.
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<p>We re-designed our website recently, in consultation with the local design firm <a href="https://www.krftwrk.ca/">KRFTWRK</a>. Let us know what you think on our community forum!</p>

<p>This month we're looking to release v1.19.0, which contains deprecations to older websocket methods. Take a look at the <a href="https://community.nodebb.org/topic/15981/1-19-0-breaking-changes">running tally of breaking changes here</a>. v1.19.0 will also contain some new API endpoints (chats), as well as some minor theme-related changes.</p>

<p>The NodeBB offices will be closed the last week of the year for the holidays. See you all in 2022! 🎉</p>