# Discourse Version 2.0

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-version-2-0/73729
**Category:** Announcements
**Tags:** release-notes
**Created:** [November 8, 2017, 11:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-version-2-0/73729 "2017-11-08T23:26:34Z")
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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: [November 8, 2017, 11:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-version-2-0/73729/1 "2017-11-08T23:26:35Z")

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### Focus

- ✅ Redesigned admin dashboard, with @hawk in charge

- ✅ [Adding recipients to the bottom of the mail](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notification-recipients-unclear-when-pm-is-sent-to-multiple-users/26934/34), combined with adding group names to group PMs

- ✅ [Automatically close a poll on a given date/time?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-close-a-poll-on-a-given-date-time/79642) @zogstrip

- ✅[Deprecate user card badge](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deprecate-user-card-badge/60944); move into plugin, @neil

- ✅ Allow [requiring at least one tag](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-option-to-enforce-tagging/69527) on all topics. @techAPJ

- ✅ Insert date/times that automagically translate to the reader’s proper time zone @j.jaffeux

- ✅ Upgrade various JS dependencies ( ~~Ember~~ / jQuery and so on) early in the 2.0 cycle.

- ✅ Add whitelist and blacklist for crawler bots to reduce unwanted traffic @neil

- ✅[Group/inbox messages not updated for new posts](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-inbox-messages-not-updated-for-new-posts/38189)

- ✅[Store a real revision for large grace period edits - #14 by sam](https://meta.discourse.org/t/store-a-real-revision-for-large-grace-period-edits/81614/14) @sam

- ✅[Better detection of "cookies deleted" in the application](https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-detection-of-cookies-deleted-in-the-application/78800)

- ✅ [https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-merge-users/9220](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-merge-users/9220) which @gerhard plans to start looking at

- ✅ [Add support for theme settings](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-support-for-theme-settings/78103) @Osama

- ✅ Allow staff to tag PMs

- ✅ Two factor auth login support courtesy @awole20

- ✅[Search refinements](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prioritizing-content-more-effectively-in-search/63010/24) – primarily built in Postgres ranking boost for topic titles, possibly category boost as well) and refined search logs

- ✅ Passwordless login via link [Passwordless signin via email link](https://meta.discourse.org/t/passwordless-signin-via-email-link/57569)

- ✅ Paste in HTML content and it will be converted to markdown (can be turned off via site setting) @vinothkannans

- ✅ Menu toggle for different reply modes per [this mockup](https://meta.discourse.org/t/menu-toggle-for-different-reply-modes/58133) @j.jaffeux

### 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~~
- ~~[Lycurgus v1.9](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-version-1-9/61289)~~
- [Lysias v2.0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysias) ←

### Start date

Jan 4, 2018

### Planned release date

May 31, 2018

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