# Discourse Version 1.9

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-version-1-9/61289
**Category:** Announcements
**Tags:** release-notes
**Created:** [April 19, 2017, 11:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-version-1-9/61289 "2017-04-19T23:03:53Z")
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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: [April 19, 2017, 11:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-version-1-9/61289/1 "2017-04-19T23:03:53Z")

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### Focus

- ✅ Update Emoji sets to latest, plus [Unicode 9.0 additions](http://emojipedia.org/unicode-9.0/) and skin tone support

- ✅ Watched words feature for blocking, censoring, or requiring approval for certain words appearing in posts

- ✅ Add required user fields to invite accept form

- ✅ Finally integrate CommonMark 🎉 plus table support

- ✅ new Emoji selector derived from Twitter’s emoji picker

- ✅ Implement mini-onebox for internal and possibly whitelisted domain links (replace with title)

- ✅ Offer actions based on word list hits: block posting, require approval, auto-flag, censor, etc.

- ✅ Make it [easier to message groups](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-it-easier-to-send-a-message-to-groups/65065)

- ✅ Make it so [group owners can invite people to groups](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-owner-cannot-send-an-invite-to-a-group/60617/5)

- ✅ Badge for visiting 10 days, 100 days, and 365 days consecutively (only awarded one time each)

- ✅ Specify email address in PM to field

- ✅ Support for lang specific defaults for site settings

- ✅ Add support for “disallow all PMs to me” user setting, also self-remove from PMs

- ✅ Support multiple emails per user account (courtesy @LeoMcA)

- ✅ Redesigned, improved flag handling

- ✅ User selectable home page (latest/categories) via @sam and community

- ✅[Basic search stats](https://meta.discourse.org/t/effectively-logging-search-queries/63838) in the admin dashboard

- ✅ Live indicators of who is currently replying to a topic, both in the editor and at the bottom of the topic (courtesy @david)

- ✅ Select all posts below a certain point when selecting posts, also select all children of a certain post

### Codename

- ~~Aeschines v1.1~~
- ~~Andocides v1.2~~
- ~~Antiphon v1.3~~
- ~~Demosthenes v1.4~~
- ~~Dinarchus v1.5~~
- ~~Hypereides v1.6~~
- ~~Isaeus v1.7~~
- ~~[Isocrates v1.8](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-version-1-8/49801)~~
- [Lycurgus v1.9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycurgus_of_Athens) ←
- Lysias

### Start date

June 1, 2017

### Planned release date

Jan 3, 2018

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