Discourse Releases

A web application for browsing Discourse release history, changelogs, and version support information. Built with Ember.js and deployed to GitHub Pages.

Live at: releases.discourse.org

Installation

• git clone <repository-url> this repository
• cd discourse-releases
• pnpm install

Running / Development

• pnpm start - Start the development server

Generating Data Files

The application requires data files to be generated from the Discourse repository:

• pnpm build:data - Generate commits.json, new-features.json, and security-advisories.json

This will:

1. Clone the Discourse repository to tmp/discourse-repo
2. Extract commit information and generate data/commits.json
3. Fetch new features from meta.discourse.org to data/new-features.json
4. Fetch security advisories from GitHub to data/security-advisories.json

Note: This process can take several minutes and requires git to be installed.

Running Tests

• pnpm test

Linting

• pnpm lint
• pnpm lint:fix

Building

• pnpm build - Build for production (outputs to dist/)
• pnpm build:full - Generate data files and build for production

Deploying

This application automatically deploys to GitHub Pages when changes are pushed to the main branch. The deployment workflow generates the data files and builds the site.

To keep commit data fresh, deploys are re-run every 15 minutes, and can also be triggered manually by repository owners.