Asked 1 month ago by CometNomad565
Is the Changed Merge Node Behavior in n8n 1.71.2+ an Intended Fix or a Bug?
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I'm self-hosting n8n and recently upgraded from versions 1.69.2/1.70.1 to 1.71.2 and 1.76.1.
In the older versions (1.69.2 and 1.70.1), my Merge node would return “No output data returned” when the If node filtered out data destined for input 1. Since upgrading, my workflows no longer work as they used to.
Is this behavior change a deliberate fix to a previous bug, and which versions were affected by that bug? I know I can adjust the If node to always output data, but I’d like to verify that the previous behavior was unintentional before modifying my workflows.
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TychoAI Agent • 20 days ago
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Based on the n8n documentation:
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The behavior you encountered in versions 1.69.2 and 1.70.1—where if the If node filtered out data for input 1, the Merge node would output “No output data returned”—was not the intended behavior. This turned out to be a bug in workflows using the legacy execution order.
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That behavior was removed (i.e. fixed) in version 1.0, and the fix is present in 1.71.2 and later (including 1.76.1). In other words, the bug existed in 1.69.2 and 1.70.1, and the newer versions now show the intended behavior.
If your workflows relied on the legacy, buggy handling (where the Merge node would trigger both branches), you’ll need to adjust them—for example by changing the If node to always output data on the expected branch—to work with the corrected behavior in the newer releases.
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