Notes v4.13.1 is flooding my NC log with warnings

[zonebattler]

Please make a clear and concise description of what the bug is.

Steps to reproduce

1. Update Notes to v4.13.1

Expected behaviour

No warnings or error messages in the NC log

Actual behaviour

In the NC log, I'm getting the message

Undefined array key "node" at /www/htdocs/xxxxxxxx/my-domain.de/cloud/apps/notes/lib/Service/NoteUtil.php#201

multiple times and again and again...

Server

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• Notes app version: 4.13.1
• Nextcloud version: 33.0.0
• OS: Linux
• Web server: Apache
• PHP version: 8.4
• Database: MariaDB

Nextcloud configuration:

"system": {
"instanceid": "REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE",
"passwordsalt": "REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE",
"secret": "REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE",
"trusted_domains": [
"klein-aber-fein.de",
"www.klein-aber-fein.de"
],
"datadirectory": "REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE",
"dbtype": "mysql",
"version": "33.0.0.16",
"overwrite.cli.url": "http://klein-aber-fein.de/cloud",
"dbname": "REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE",
"dbhost": "REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE",
"dbport": "",
"dbtableprefix": "BGsD4_",
"mysql.utf8mb4": true,
"dbuser": "REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE",
"dbpassword": "REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE",
"installed": true,
"tempdirectory": "/www/htdocs/xxxxxxxx/klein-aber-fein.de/cloud/tmp/",
"mail_smtpmode": "smtp",
"mail_sendmailmode": "pipe",
"mail_from_address": "REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE",
"mail_domain": "REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE",
"maintenance": false,
"theme": "",
"loglevel": 2,
"app_install_overwrite": {
"0": "dashboardcharts",
"1": "files_rightclick",
"2": "occweb",
"4": "passwords"
},
"updater.release.channel": "stable",
"default_phone_region": "DE",
"mail_smtphost": "REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE",
"mail_smtpport": "25",
"mail_smtpauth": true,
"mail_smtpname": "REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE",
"mail_smtppassword": "REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE",
"memories.db.triggers.fcu": true,
"updater.secret": "REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE" }}

Client

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• Browser (incl. version): Vivaldi v7.9.3970.39
• OS: Windows 11

Log files

Add relevant parts of your nextcloud.log and/or your browser's JavaScript console here.

Undefined array key "node" at /www/htdocs/w017f395/klein-aber-fein.de/cloud/apps/notes/lib/Service/NoteUtil.php#201

[Diemaeuse]

For me the same. In additon one finding: in the dashboard the widget for notes is empty - despite that there are notes in the file system and in the dedicated app they are visible.
This is my log entry:
{"reqId":"pBmvoop2cDpibYTW7ej1","level":2, "time": "2026-03-20T07:53:14+00:00", "remoteAddr":"xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx", "user":"xxxxxxxx","app"
:"PHP", "method":"GET", "url":"/nextcloud/index.php/apps/notes/notes/dashboard","scriptName":"/nextcloud/index.php", "message":"Und
efined array key "node" at /var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/notes/lib/Service/NoteUtil.php#201","userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows
NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/146.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/146.0.0.0","version":"32.0.6.1","
data":{"app": "PHP"}}

[i-byrana]

Same for me. Started with latest update. My whole log is full of these entries.

{"reqId":"hTEgdnpygKgu4bJ0EZRb","level":2,"time":"2026-03-20T12:32:03+00:00","remoteAddr":"xxx","user":"xxx","app":"PHP","method":"GET","url":"/index.php/apps/notes/api/v1/notes?pruneBefore=1774009022","scriptName":"/index.php","message":"Undefined array key "node" at /var/www/html/custom_apps/notes/lib/Service/NoteUtil.php#201","userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Android) Nextcloud-android/33.0.1","version":"32.0.6.1","data":{"app":"PHP"},"id":"69bd4220cf1cb"}

[zomtec2311]

I can confirm that. The logs are full of them

{
    "reqId": "ab1sWmzn3iuULavCSrpZ4AAAAFY",
    "level": 2,
    "time": "2026-03-20T15:48:42+00:00",
    "remoteAddr": "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx",
    "user": "XXX",
    "app": "PHP",
    "method": "GET",
    "url": "/ocs/v2.php/apps/dashboard/api/v1/widgets",
    "scriptName": "/ocs/v2.php",
    "message": "Undefined array key \"node\" at /var/www/nextcloud/apps/notes/lib/Service/NoteUtil.php#201",
    "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/128.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
    "version": "32.0.6.1",
    "data": {
        "app": "PHP"
    }
}

[zomtec2311]

I just discovered this PR that's supposed to fix the bug.