Discourse 1.5 Released!

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

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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[holden]

Way to go Team Discourse! This release looks amazing! Thank you for all of your hard work!

Discourse is an AMAZING piece of software!

[AstonJ]

Some great stuff there

[ko_bx (Kostiantyn Rybnikov)]

Is there any post with technical details on speedup improvements? Would love to read one.

[ko_bx (Kostiantyn Rybnikov)]

Stupid me: We finally did something about Android Performance | Evil Trout Inc.

[erlend_sh (Erlend Sogge Heggen)]

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:

• 136 users made 356 Pull Requests (across 17 repos)
• 89 users had 221 of those PR’s merged (across 16 repos)
• In addition other pull requests were used as the basis for coding changes added to the core directly by the team.

Big thanks to the following contributors on GitHub:

• cpradio
• dandv
• davidgnavas
• fantasticfears
• gschlager
• xfalcox
• fefrei
• mikhailvink
• pvalexander
• rriemann
• abbasfaisal
• adamcapriola
• adrapereira
• andyw8
• angusmcleod
• aryanraj
• bgr11n
• BYWallace
• carsonreinke
• chapel
• darix
• dasnixon
• dereckson
• devonestes
• Communiteq (formerly DiscourseHosting)
• djtye
• Dorthu
• dtchau
• DukeofRealms
• ebernhardson
• emanuelet
• fearlessfrog
• featheredtoast
• gdpelican
• getabetterpic
• gpaumier
• GrantStreetGroup
• Grexy
• gwwar
• halfstrik
• httvncoder
• humzashah
• huulbaek
• iamntz
• jamesfid
• jamesgecko
• jamielinux
• JaredReisinger
• Jdesk
• jeremylan
• jfoclpf
• joebuhlig
• jomaxro
• JSFernandes
• jslew
• karies
• keepcosmos
• kellec
• khoa-le
• LeoMcA
• lumenlunae
• maclover7
• manelvf
• markbiegel
• Martyn96
• mcwumbly
• MichaelMarner
• Mooash
• motte215
• phw
• pra85
• RalfJung
• rchanley
• RomeoPapaSK
• rubo77
• ryantm
• sammyd
• scossar
• seth-reeser
• sethdeckard
• sethherr
• sghebuz
• simplystuart
• Stealthii
• tnorthcutt
• tomasibarrab
• uppfinnarn
• xfix
• zigomir

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Maybe we should start a tradition of including this exhaustive list as part of the #releases topics?