Discourse 1.5 has been released, featuring a 5× faster topic page, improved badge system, enhanced group private messaging, and mobile editor improvements. codinghorror highlights the major performance gains, supported by benchmark data. holden and AstonJ praise the release. ko_bx seeks technical details, later finding them in a linked post. erlend_sh shares a detailed GitHub activity report, crediting 136 contributors across 17 repos, and suggests including such lists in future release announcements.
We’re proud to announce that today marks the release of Discourse 1.5! This was a huge release that took almost 7 months: Discourse 1.2 – Feb 2015 Discourse 1.3 – June 2015 Discourse 1.4 – September 2015 5× Faster Topic Page Perhaps the most significant improvement in this release is a dramatic overhaul of our…
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Way to go Team Discourse! This release looks amazing! Thank you for all of your hard work!
Discourse is an AMAZING piece of software!
Some great stuff there 
Is there any post with technical details on speedup improvements? Would love to read one.
Courtesy of @DeanMarkTaylor, here’s an interesting stat addendum.
Counting activity in all the “discourse/*” repos during the period of 22. September 2015 - 01. April 2016:
Big thanks to the following contributors on GitHub:
Maybe we should start a tradition of including this exhaustive list as part of the #releases topics?