# Discourse Version 1.8

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-version-1-8/49801
**Category:** Announcements
**Tags:** release-notes
**Created:** [September 7, 2016, 12:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-version-1-8/49801 "2016-09-07T00:28:13Z")
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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: [September 7, 2016, 12:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-version-1-8/49801/1 "2016-09-07T00:28:13Z")

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### Focus

- ✅ Improve usability and design of password reset page.

- ✅ “Get a room” reminder sent once per topic, to any user who replies to the same user in that topic 3 times in a row.

- ✅ Much more secure cookie and token rotation scheme and database storage, upgrading to 1.8 is _critical_ for improved db / cookie security

- ✅ Improve usability and design of invite accept page.

- ✅ Include Narrative Bot as new default for welcome PMs

- ✅ Add new subcategory style options and move subcategory settings to category edit (versus oddball global site setting)

- ✅ Congratulations emails (and badge) to new users who get a number of likes by established users

- ✅ Generalized topic timer support for close, open (close temporarily), delete, publishing, and reminder

- ✅ require email confirm for admin db download and admin grants

- ✅ Rebuild theming system for easier theming. Let users select local color theme to taste (dark, light, etc)

- ✅ Allow new signups to change their email address as well as resend confirmation, in case they typoed their signup email

- ✅ “Private email mode” site setting ensures that no content is leaked to the outside via emails when the site’s content is sensitive.

- ✅ Rebuild user prefs page to use subtabs

### Codename

- ~~Aeschines v1.1~~
- ~~Andocides v1.2~~
- ~~Antiphon v1.3~~
- ~~Demosthenes v1.4~~
- ~~Dinarchus v1.5~~
- ~~Hypereides v1.6~~
- ~~[Isaeus v1.7](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-version-1-7/41842)~~
- [Isocrates v1.8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isocrates) ←
- Lycurgus
- Lysias

### Start date

January 7, 2017

### Planned release date

May 31, 2017

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