updates

Discourse 1.1 and Release Schedule

Jeff Atwood

• 2 min read

In September, the entire Discourse Team had our yearly world meetup in Toronto. It was a blast!

Robin and Neil (not pictured, he has a thing with heights) hosted us and made sure a fun time was had by all in their home city. We rode segways, we climbed the tallest tower, we were trapped in puzzle rooms, we even killed a hobo. We also discussed the Discourse roadmap post V1, and how we decide what goes into future releases of Discourse.

The next stage of that plan is now complete. As of late last week, we shipped Discourse 1.1!

The complete release notes have a detailed summary of the hundreds of fixes, UI improvements, feature tweaks, and new features in Discourse 1.1, but here are a few highlights:

Search now provides a lot more feedback, including dates, category, and bolded matches in context.

There's also finally a help link on search which describes all the custom operators and orders you can use, as well as providing general search tips.

Custom User Fields

You can specify custom boolean or text fields for user profiles, including fields that need to be captured at sign up time.

New User Cards

New user cards with customizable backgrounds and selectable badge images, if you hold a badge that has an eligible image associated. The user profile page also got some design updates.

1.1 is a polish release and reflects a stabler, faster, more secure Discourse. It's what 1.0 should have been, but open source software is never "done". Upgrade your instance today via our easy one click admin panel updater!

We'd like to thank the entire Discourse community for all their contributions toward this release, whether it was in pull requests, feedback on meta.discourse, or feedback on your own Discourse instance. Heck, we even listen to our customers, sometimes!

For insight into what's coming up in future releases of Discourse, keep an eye on the releases category at meta discourse.