Upcoming
release-2025-09
September 2025 Release
https://github.com/livingdocsIO/livingdocs-editor/tree/release-2025-09

Caveat 🔥

These are the release notes of the upcoming release (pull requests merged to the main branch).

  • ℹ️ this document is updated automatically by a bot (pr’s to categorize section)
  • ℹ️ this document will be roughly updated manually once a week (put PRs + description to the right section)
  • 🔥 We don’t guarantee stable APIs. They can still change until the official release
  • 🔥 Integration against the upcoming release (currently master branch) is at your own risk

PRs to Categorize

To get an overview about new functionality, read the Release Notes. To learn about the necessary actions to update Livingdocs to release-2025-09, read on.

Attention: If you skipped one or more releases, please also check the release-notes of the skipped ones.

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System Requirements

Suggested

NameVersion
Node22
NPM10
Postgres16
Elasticsearch8.x
OpenSearch2.3.0
Redis7
Livingdocs Server Docker Imagelivingdocs/server-base:22
Livingdocs Editor Docker Imagelivingdocs/editor-base:22
Browser SupportEdge >= 92, Firefox >= 90, Chrome >= 92, Safari >= 15.4, iOS Safari >= 15.4, Opera >= 78

Minimal

NameVersion
Node20.19
NPM10
Postgres13
Elasticsearch7.x
OpenSearch1
Redis6.2
Livingdocs Server Docker Imagelivingdocs/server-base:20:10
Livingdocs Editor Docker Imagelivingdocs/editor-base:20:10
Browser SupportEdge >= 92, Firefox >= 90, Chrome >= 92, Safari >= 15.4, iOS Safari >= 15.4, Opera >= 78

Deployment

Before the deployment

No pre-deployment steps are required before rolling out this release.

Rollout deployment

Migrate the Postgres Database

No migrations are required for this release.

After the deployment

No post-deployment steps are required after rolling out this release.

Rollback

No rollback steps are required for this release.

Breaking Changes 🔥

Renaming of Table Dashboard Cells

Since the following dashboard cells are now exclusive to the News Agency module, we have renamed them accordingly. They were first introduced in release-2025-07 to support the needs of the News Agency module.

  • liTableDashboardCellTitle to liTableDashboardCellNewsAgencyTitle
  • liTableDashboardCellTime to liTableDashboardCellNewsAgencyTime
  • liTableDashboardCellAgency to liTableDashboardCellNewsAgencyCreate

If you are using any of these dashboard cells, please update their names accordingly.

server Operations

Migrate the Postgres Database 🔥

It’s a simple/fast migration with no expected data losses.

# run `livingdocs-server migrate up` to update to the newest database schema
livingdocs-server migrate up

TODO: check migration

Deprecations

Features

News Agency Notifications

It is now possible to receive notifications for news agency reports directly in Livingdocs. Once enabled, these notifications appear throughout the application—whether on a dashboard, article, or in any other view. They inform users that a new news agency report matching the defined criteria is available. From there, an article can be created instantly with just one click.

To ensure users stay informed even when they are not actively working in Livingdocs, the favicon is highlighted whenever a new notification is available. In addition, browser notifications can be activated to alert users outside of the Livingdocs tab as soon as a new report is received.

Criteria for receiving News Agency Notifications

An incoming news agency report will only trigger a notification if the following conditions are met:

  • The news agency report has a Priority 1 or Priority 2.
  • Notifications are enabled and the sleep timer is deactivated.
  • The corresponding category of the report is selected in the news agency notification settings.

News Agency Notification Settings

The settings for news agency notifications are available on every news agency screen. To show the settings, click its icon. It is located next to the display filters at the top of the document list and indicates the current status: Disabled, Enabled, or Sleep Timer Active.

Clicking the icon opens the settings. When the toggle is switched on, a list of all configured categories is displayed. Notifications are delivered for all categories that are checked.

News Agency Notification Settings

Configure these categories using the notifications property inside the newsAgency property:

newsAgency: {
  notifications: [
    {
      handle: 'politics',
      label: {en: 'Politics', de: 'Politik'},
      category: 'Politik'
    }
    // ...
  ]
}

In addition to enabling or disabling notifications and adjusting the category selection, users can also activate a sleep timer to temporarily mute notifications. Settings changes are persisted per user. The settings may also contain a hint regarding browser notifications if they are unset or disabled (see the respective sections below for more information).

News Agency Notifications Modal

When all notification criteria are met, a notification will appear at the top center of the Livingdocs interface. It contains a cell representing the news agency report, including the timestamp, title, source, and a plus button. Clicking the plus button immediately creates a Livingdocs article based on this report. Below the report cell, users can either toggle notifications on/off or activate the sleep timer, just as in the notification settings. Additionally, a Details button opens the full report details, mirroring the side panel on the news agency screen. If multiple notifications are present, a navigation element appears in the top-right corner. Users can click the arrows to browse through all received news agency reports. The currently opened notification remains active and visible, even when new notifications arrive.

These notifications behave similarly to other Livingdocs notifications (e.g., error messages). They overlay all other interface elements. While interacting directly with the notification and its content, the background remains inactive. However, when clicking or working outside the notification, the rest of the interface behaves as usual.

News Agency Notifications Decollapsed News Agency Notifications Collapsed

A notification will remain visible until one of the following occurs:

  • An article is created directly from the notification using the plus button.
  • The notification is closed manually via the close button in the top-right corner.
  • 30 minutes have passed. In this case, only the specific notification that reached the 30-minute limit will disappear; other notifications remain unaffected.

Notifications and news agency settings are synchronized across all open browser tabs. When a notification is closed in one tab, it is automatically closed in all other tabs. The same applies when a new notification is received—it becomes visible in every open tab.

When notifications are open, the favicon changes. A small red circle is added on top of the Livingdocs logo (the default favicon). Once all notifications are closed, the favicon reverts to its normal state. This visual cue ensures that users can easily recognize when new notifications are available—even if no Livingdocs tab is currently active.

Sleep Timer

The sleep timer can be activated to temporarily mute notifications, allowing you to pause alerts until the next day without disabling notifications entirely. Once the remaining time has passed, notifications will automatically resume.

While active, the sleep timer also displays the remaining time until notifications are re-enabled. If news agency notifications are switched off completely, the sleep timer will be deactivated as well.

The sleep timer is available both in the News Agency Notification Settings and in the Notification Modal.

Browser Notifications

Livingdocs now supports browser notifications for incoming news agency reports that meet the notification criteria, providing a way to receive alerts outside of the application. When opening the news agency notification settings for the first time, the browser will ask users to grant permission for Livingdocs notifications (by default, this setting is unset).

If the user declines, a permanent hint will be shown in the News Agency Notification Settings. If the user accepts, then in addition to the in-app News Agency Notification, a browser notification will be displayed.

The browser notification itself contains only the title of the incoming news agency report that matches the criteria. Handling of the notification depends entirely on the browser and the user’s system (computer) settings. Livingdocs has no control over the appearance, duration, or sound of these notifications.

Note: if system notifications are disabled, or when sharing your screen in a video call, browser notifications may not be displayed at all.

Vulnerability Patches

We are constantly patching module vulnerabilities for the Livingdocs Server and Livingdocs Editor as module fixes are available. Below is a list of all patched vulnerabilities included in the release.

Livingdocs Server

This release we have patched the following vulnerabilities in the Livingdocs Server:

  • TBD

No known vulnerabilities. 🎉

Livingdocs Editor

This release we have patched the following vulnerabilities in the Livingdocs Editor:

  • TBD

We are aware of the following vulnerabilities in the Livingdocs Editor:

  • CVE-2023-44270 vulnerability in postcss, it affects linters using PostCSS to parse external Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). It is not exploitable in the editor as we don’t load untrusted external CSS at build time.
  • CVE-2023-26116, CVE-2023-26118, CVE-2023-26117, CVE-2022-25869, CVE-2022-25844 are all AngularJS vulnerabilities that don’t have a patch available. We are working on removing all AngularJS from our code and vulnerabilities will go away when we complete the transition to Vue.js.

Patches

Here is a list of all patches after the release has been announced.

Livingdocs Server Patches

Livingdocs Editor Patches

Icon Legend

  • Breaking changes: 🔥
  • Feature: 🎁