# Discourse Version 1.6

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-version-1-6/36402
**Category:** Announcements
**Tags:** release-notes
**Created:** [December 7, 2015, 10:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-version-1-6/36402 "2015-12-07T22:12:08Z")
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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: [December 7, 2015, 10:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-version-1-6/36402/1 "2015-12-07T22:12:08Z")

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### Focus

- ✅ Three new bronze badges, for first use of emoji, first `@name` mention, first onebox

- ✅ add more stats on user summary page (most liked by, top links, etc)

- ✅ Convert header to vdom approach for speed (currently 100ms of 400ms topic load time is header)

- ✅ set global sanity limit on PM and topic lengths with two settings

- ✅ bootstrap mode for newly installed sites where TL1 is default and daily digests are default

- ✅ allow changing topics to PMs and vice versa

- ✅ catch up on a bunch of Ember deprecations

- ✅ Change right gutter to show larger progress bar, and other relevant UI elements

- ✅ Move right gutter in/out links below posts

- ✅ Improve email bounce handling so bad emails get filtered out over time

- ✅ Better thumbnails for tall images

- ✅ enhance invites so the sent text can be customized

- ✅ warn posters when they are about to post a link that’s already been posted earlier in the topic

- ✅ New bronze badge for “replied via email”

- ✅ Unsubscribe no longer requires login for digests; extend this to more classes of email

- ✅ Extend gear option icon on editor to allow for poll builder UI, whispers, and spoilers

- ✅ Allow groups to be invited to a conversation

- ✅ Convert all markdown stuff to ES6 (prep work for markdown engine move)

- ✅ When changing category watch state, prompt to also change state of all topics in that category at the time of change

- ✅ Support [large amount of recipients](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pm-with-many-users-hides-topic-input-field/6107/7) in “new pm” dialog

- ✅ Update to latest Emoji One PNGs for the set of Emoji we’re already using

- ✅ Add new Watching First Post Only notification state for categories that notifies on new topics only

- ✅ HTML anchor support that works for deep linking to headings in a post

- ✅ Add “Windows” emoji set from win 10 anniversary edition, now that we have official msft approval

### Codename

- ~~Aeschines v1.1~~
- ~~Andocides v1.2~~
- ~~Antiphon v1.3~~
- ~~Demosthenes v1.4~~
- ~~[Dinarchus v1.5](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-version-1-5/30609)~~
- [Hypereides v1.6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypereides) ←
- Isaeus
- Isocrates
- Lycurgus
- Lysias

### Start date

April 1, 2016

### Planned release date

August 5, 2016

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