# Discourse Version 1.5

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-version-1-5/30609
**Category:** Announcements
**Tags:** release-notes
**Created:** [June 29, 2015, 10:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-version-1-5/30609 "2015-06-29T22:13:26Z")
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### 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: [June 29, 2015, 10:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-version-1-5/30609/1 "2015-06-29T22:13:26Z")

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### Focus

- ✅ Rewrite composer toolbar in Ember

- ✅ Ability to overwrite any translation with arbitrary string

- ✅ Ability for groups to have a “group owner” than can add and remove people from the group

- ✅ Make group messaging a first class citizen in Discourse, allow PMs to groups, allow group mentions (under controlled circumstances)

- ✅ Make more system-sent email text customizable in admin, customize, text

- ✅ Fix topic splits having owner of person who split the topic

- ✅ Replace “Dismiss Posts” and “Dismiss Topics” with “Dismiss” and a pop-up explanation / selector

- ✅ Smoother loading of stream, show placeholder posts while loading batches

- ✅ Update emoji support, use slight smile

- ✅ add and remove users in messages generates post notification in topic

- ✅ Refactor user page for significantly better group messaging support, and more speed. Also add summary page.

- ✅ Improve blocked state so that it can be triggered by admins and is more useful overall

- ✅ Make top criteria formula multipliers controlled by site settings

- ✅ Rebuild post / topic rendering with custom virtual DOM code to bypass Ember and speed up by at least 3x (ideally 5x to 10x) (see [blog post](https://eviltrout.com/2016/02/25/fixing-android-performance.html))

- ✅ [Private support portal](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-as-a-private-support-portal/34444) email inbox improvements (essentially much better first class group email support, staged user accounts, etc)

- ✅ Better control of like notifications and better notification default so you know when old posts are getting liked

- ✅ Improve email context options (per [this topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forcing-email-context-input-requested/25577/56)) and new less verbose email context default

- ✅ Longer default passwords, better verification of changed email addresses for staff, and notification when email is changed for regular users.

- ✅ Add three new bronze/silver/gold badges for likes, including badge for using all likes in a day

- ✅ Full screen mobile editor with preview/toolbar

- ✅ Better badge page formatting and longer, more humane badge descriptions

### Codename

- ~~Aeschines v1.1~~
- ~~Andocides v1.2~~
- ~~Antiphon v1.3~~
- ~~[Demosthenes v1.4](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-version-1-4/26488)~~
- [Dinarchus v1.5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinarchus) ←
- Hypereides
- Isaeus
- Isocrates
- Lycurgus
- Lysias

### Start date

September 28th, 2015

### Planned release date

March 31st, 2016

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