diff --git a/core/modules/filters.js b/core/modules/filters.js
index 7c8cb21ba7..56bc533ccc 100644
--- a/core/modules/filters.js
+++ b/core/modules/filters.js
@@ -88,8 +88,8 @@ function parseFilterOperation(operators,filterString,p) {
 						rexMatch = rex.exec(filterString.substring(p));
 					if(rexMatch) {
 						operator.regexp = new RegExp(rexMatch[1], rexMatch[2]);
-						// DEPRECATION WARNING
-						console.log("WARNING: Filter",operator.operator,"has a deprecated regexp operand",operator.regexp);
+	// DEPRECATION WARNING
+	console.log("WARNING: Filter",operator.operator,"has a deprecated regexp operand",operator.regexp);
 						nextBracketPos = p + rex.lastIndex - 1;
 					}
 					else {
@@ -232,12 +232,7 @@ exports.getFilterRunPrefixes = function() {
 
 exports.filterTiddlers = function(filterString,widget,source) {
 	var fn = this.compileFilter(filterString);
-	try {
-		const fnResult = fn.call(this,source,widget);
-		return fnResult;
-	} catch(e) {
-		return [`${$tw.language.getString("Error/Filter")}: ${e}`];
-	}
+	return fn.call(this,source,widget);
 };
 
 /*
@@ -319,19 +314,19 @@ exports.compileFilter = function(filterString) {
 
 				// Invoke the appropriate filteroperator module
 				results = operatorFunction(accumulator,{
-					operator: operator.operator,
-					operand: operands.length > 0 ? operands[0] : undefined,
-					operands: operands,
-					multiValueOperands: multiValueOperands,
-					isMultiValueOperand: isMultiValueOperand,
-					prefix: operator.prefix,
-					suffix: operator.suffix,
-					suffixes: operator.suffixes,
-					regexp: operator.regexp
-				},{
-					wiki: self,
-					widget: widget
-				});
+							operator: operator.operator,
+							operand: operands.length > 0 ? operands[0] : undefined,
+							operands: operands,
+							multiValueOperands: multiValueOperands,
+							isMultiValueOperand: isMultiValueOperand,
+							prefix: operator.prefix,
+							suffix: operator.suffix,
+							suffixes: operator.suffixes,
+							regexp: operator.regexp
+						},{
+							wiki: self,
+							widget: widget
+						});
 				if($tw.utils.isArray(results)) {
 					accumulator = self.makeTiddlerIterator(results);
 				} else {
diff --git a/editions/tw5.com/tiddlers/releasenotes/5.4.0/fix-base64-rsoe.tid b/editions/tw5.com/tiddlers/releasenotes/5.4.0/fix-base64-rsoe.tid
deleted file mode 100644
index 71c1071cfe..0000000000
--- a/editions/tw5.com/tiddlers/releasenotes/5.4.0/fix-base64-rsoe.tid
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-title: $:/changenotes/5.4.0/#9496
-description: Fix RSOE from decodebase64
-release: 5.4.0
-tags: $:/tags/ChangeNote
-change-type: bugfix
-change-category: filters
-github-links: https://github.com/TiddlyWiki/TiddlyWiki5/pull/9496
-github-contributors: Leilei332
-
-[[decodebase64 Operator]] now outputs error to the filter operator result.
\ No newline at end of file