I frequent forums at https://forum.v1engineering.com/. That site just updated to 2.8 (I noticed the PM bubbles, so I am pretty sure that is the current version).
The other change many people noticed was that the areas with listed topics (like the latest view) now show a long preview of the post text. Some people are a bit annoyed by it (Forum Topic View Settings - Random or Off Topic - V1 Engineering Forum). Is there a way to turn that off and go back to the previous view settings?
It definitely changed the same day as the PM bubbles showed up. But I didn’t see it in the release notes.