8.0.0 (2025-03-04)

Migration Guide

This is a major release with breaking changes. We prepared a migration guide to help you migrating to Parse Server 8. For the full list of breaking changes see the section below. If you are upgrading from a lower version than the previous major release, we recommend to upgrade one major release at a time and consult the respective change logs. For help consult our community forum or our community chat.

BREAKING CHANGES

• This upgrades the internally used Express framework from version 4 to 5, which may be a breaking change. If Parse Server is set up to be mounted on an Express application, we recommend to also use version 5 of the Express framework to avoid any compatibility issues. Note that even if there are no issues after upgrading, future releases of Parse Server may introduce issues if Parse Server internally relies on Express 5-specific features which are unsupported by the Express version on which it is mounted. See the Express migration guide and release announcement for more info. (e0480df)
• This upgrades to the Parse JS SDK 6.0.0. See the change log of the Parse JS SDK for breaking changes and more details. (bf9db75)
• This removes the username from the email verification and password reset process to prevent storing personally identifiable information (PII) in server and infrastructure logs. Customized HTML pages or emails related to email verification and password reset may need to be adapted accordingly. See the new templates that come bundled with Parse Server and the migration guide for more details. (d21dd97)
• This releases increases the required minimum versions to Postgres 15, PostGIS 3.3 and removes support for Postgres 13, 14, PostGIS 3.1, 3.2. (89c9b54)
• The default value of Parse Server option encodeParseObjectInCloudFunction changes to true; the option has been deprecated and will be removed in a future version. (5c5ad69)
• This releases increases the required minimum MongoDB versions to 6.0.19, 7.0.16, 8.0.4 and removes support for MongoDB 4, 5. (871e508)
• This releases increases the required minimum Node versions to 18.20.4, 20.18.0, 22.12.0 and removes unofficial support for Node 19. (4e151cd)

Features

• Add dynamic master key by setting Parse Server option masterKey to a function (#9582) (6f1d161)
• Add support for MongoDB databaseOptions keys autoSelectFamily, autoSelectFamilyAttemptTimeout (#9579) (5966068)
• Add support for MongoDB databaseOptions keys minPoolSize, connectTimeoutMS, socketTimeoutMS (#9522) (91618fe)
• Add TypeScript support (#9550) (59e46d0)
• Change default value of Parse Server option encodeParseObjectInCloudFunction to true (#9527) (5c5ad69)
• Deprecate PublicAPIRouter in favor of PagesRouter (#9526) (7f66629)
• Increase required minimum MongoDB versions to 6.0.19, 7.0.16, 8.0.4 (#9531) (871e508)
• Increase required minimum Node versions to 18.20.4, 20.18.0, 22.12.0 (#9521) (4e151cd)
• Increase required minimum versions to Postgres 15, PostGIS 3.3 (#9538) (89c9b54)
• Upgrade to express 5.0.1 (#9530) (e0480df)
• Upgrade to Parse JS SDK 6.0.0 (#9624) (bf9db75)

Bug Fixes

• LiveQueryServer crashes using cacheAdapter on disconnect from Redis 4 server (#9616) (bbc6bd4)
• Push adapter not loading on some versions of Node 22 (#9524) (ff7f671)
• Remove username from email verification and password reset process (#8488) (d21dd97)
• Security upgrade node from 20.17.0-alpine3.20 to 20.18.2-alpine3.20 (#9583) (8f85ae2)