RFC: A new versioning strategy for Discourse

[david (David Taylor)]

Today we’ve taken another step towards implementing this RFC - the latest version of Discourse is numbered as v2025.11.0, and we’ve now begun work on v2025.12.0-latest on the latest branch

Release v2025.11.0: AI translations improvements, chat search, new review queue, and improvements for posts with images

New features in v2025.11.0 New version numbering scheme Perhaps you noticed we just jumped from version 3.6.0.beta2 to version 2025.11.0. We have updated our version numbers for releases to be based on the current year and month as part of a larger project to improve our release processes to provide more choice & predictability for community administrators. Learn more… AI translations improvements for search and more authors Localized content can now be served to search engines, making your for…