hm I just broadcast a global note to my local running relay and it worked fine. Inserted kind 1 in the database. Where are you seeing the timeout? 

 https://image.nostr.build/7b51a1b3c02b042e3d7248cb4a54afcf4665b9c246b6ddeb51edc97c308f0071.png 

 Could be something with the old version or bad database wheat has. I'll update soon and let you know.