# Discourse 1.8 released!

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-1-8-released/63691>\
**Category:** Blog\
**Created:** [May 31, 2017, 10:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-1-8-released/63691 "2017-05-31T22:20:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2017, 10:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-1-8-released/63691/1 "2017-05-31T22:20:04Z")

</div>

Originally published at: [Discourse 1.8 released!](https://blog.discourse.org/2017/05/discourse-1-8-released/)  
   
We’re thrilled to release Discourse 1.8 today, building on Discourse 1.7 from January. Narrative Welcome Bot Perhaps the biggest new feature in this release is our narrative welcome bot, which greets new users with a personal message and offers to interactively “play” the Discourse game with them. It’s a natural extension of our original, static…

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-1-8-released/63691)._