Suprising user limit in 6.5.0

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Description:

I've upgraded to 6.5.0 and was greeted by "registration needed". I did that... a now a pro plan trial was activated.
I do not want any trial. So I disabled it.
Now all of a sudden there is a user limit of 25! With the option to pay thousands of dollars per year to keep using rocketchat.

Nothing of the above was mentioned in the changelog.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Have a running rocketchat version < 6.5.0
  2. Update to 6.5.0

Expected behavior:

I expected either to continue using the free plan or be informed that the free plan is going away and Im supposed to pay thousands of dollars per year to continue using RocketChat.

Actual behavior:

See Description above.

Server Setup Information:

  • Version of Rocket.Chat Server: 6.4.8 => 6.5.0
  • Operating System: Debian
  • Deployment Method: tar
  • Number of Running Instances: 1
  • DB Replicaset Oplog: active
  • NodeJS Version: 14.21.3
  • MongoDB Version: 6.0

Client Setup Information

  • Desktop App or Browser Version: 3.9.10
  • Operating System: Mac OS Sonoma