# 🎉 Node-RED 1.2.9 released

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-1-2-9-released/40237>\
**Category:** News\
**Created:** [2 February 2021 13:27 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-1-2-9-released/40237 "2021-02-02T13:27:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![knolleary](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/knolleary/32/3_2.png) [@knolleary](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/knolleary)\
**Post date:** [2 February 2021 13:27 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-1-2-9-released/40237/1 "2021-02-02T13:27:23Z")

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**Update:** Node-RED 1.2.9 is now available.

One of the fixes in 1.2.8 attempted to validate the language parameter passed into the api to ensure only valid values were used. That code was overly restrictive and treated some valid language codes as invalid. My apologies to our Latin American/Caribbean users who speak `es-419`

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Node-RED 1.2.8 is now available for your enjoyment.

Full release details in the changelog: [Release 1.2.8: Maintenance Release · node-red/node-red · GitHub](https://github.com/node-red/node-red/releases/tag/1.2.8)

I had hoped we'd get 1.3-beta released by the end of this week, but that is looking unlikely - there are a couple pieces that we're still working on that I would like to get in before we release the beta. So stay tuned - it won't be too much longer.

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**Author:** ![samezrp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/samezrp/32/31968_2.png) [@samezrp](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/samezrp)\
**Post date:** [3 February 2021 11:56 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-1-2-9-released/40237/2 "2021-02-03T11:56:51Z")

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Is it only me having problems with rearranging groups?  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/d/2/d293f0faf08faeee51c89e8f967c035c36efa9b3.jpeg)  
Cursor is changed but clicking/holding mouse button is not working.

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**Author:** ![knolleary](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/knolleary/32/3_2.png) [@knolleary](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/knolleary)\
**Post date:** [3 February 2021 12:45 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-1-2-9-released/40237/3 "2021-02-03T12:45:01Z")

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Hi @samezrp - there have been some others reporting similar problems with the Dashboard, but as that is Node-RED Dashboard and not related to Node-RED 1.2.8, you may want to start a new topic.

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**Author:** ![knolleary](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/knolleary/32/3_2.png) [@knolleary](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/knolleary)\
**Post date:** [3 February 2021 18:29 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-1-2-9-released/40237/4 "2021-02-03T18:29:43Z")

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**Author:** ![Dave](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/dave/32/10827_2.png) [@Dave](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Dave)\
**Post date:** [5 February 2021 09:44 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-1-2-9-released/40237/5 "2021-02-05T09:44:43Z")

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I notice . node status does not show 0 (Zero), I know this was fixed back in 2019 and it works on node-red 1.1.3 but not on node-red 1.2.8 or 1.2.9 (they are the only versions I can test)

msg.payload=0;  
node.status({text:msg.payload});

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**Author:** ![dceejay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/dceejay/32/38_2.png) [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)\
**Post date:** [5 February 2021 10:43 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-1-2-9-released/40237/6 "2021-02-05T10:43:19Z")

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> [@Dave](#):
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> msg.payload=0;  
> node.status({text:msg.payload});

indeed - though `node.status(msg.payload);` works...  
as does `node.status({text:""+msg.payload});`

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**Author:** ![Dave](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/dave/32/10827_2.png) [@Dave](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Dave)\
**Post date:** [5 February 2021 11:09 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-1-2-9-released/40237/7 "2021-02-05T11:09:45Z")

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So to be clear, should I change my stuff to 'indeed ..' or 'as does ..' or is it a bug that will get fixed in some future version.

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**Author:** ![dceejay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/dceejay/32/38_2.png) [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)\
**Post date:** [5 February 2021 11:12 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-1-2-9-released/40237/8 "2021-02-05T11:12:10Z")

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it will get fixed at some point - but if you need it working now then you can change it.

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**Author:** ![Dave](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/dave/32/10827_2.png) [@Dave](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Dave)\
**Post date:** [5 February 2021 11:16 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-1-2-9-released/40237/9 "2021-02-05T11:16:14Z")

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ok thanks ill leave it as is then because I don't know how many instances I have in all my flows and no time to look from them, I only came across it because I was debugging one particular flow and thought I had no output from a previous node.

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**Author:** ![knolleary](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/knolleary/32/3_2.png) [@knolleary](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/knolleary)\
**Post date:** [5 February 2021 11:25 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-1-2-9-released/40237/10 "2021-02-05T11:25:56Z")

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If you can, please raise an issue so it doesn't get forgotten about.

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**Author:** ![dceejay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/dceejay/32/38_2.png) [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)\
**Post date:** [5 February 2021 11:39 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-1-2-9-released/40237/11 "2021-02-05T11:39:34Z")

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PR here - [fix numeric status not displaying by ensuring it's a string by dceejay · Pull Request #2859 · node-red/node-red · GitHub](https://github.com/node-red/node-red/pull/2859)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [6 April 2021 11:40 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-1-2-9-released/40237/12 "2021-04-06T11:40:08Z")

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**Author:** ![knolleary](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/knolleary/32/3_2.png) [@knolleary](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/knolleary)\
**Post date:** [12 July 2021 15:15 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-1-2-9-released/40237/13 "2021-07-12T15:15:05Z")

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