I strongly believe that you should mention some details about changes in features for both backend and front-end. Not everybody can go through github and track changes.
Thanks for your hard work, BTW.
A common complaint with the v0.8.x series (and prior) was the lack of proper email support for out-of-the-box builds.
Ever since mid-2013, emailers have been written for NodeBB, allowing it to use a third-party email service for topic notifications, daily digests, and password resets. We made the decision to use third-party emailers because it reduced the overall complexity of the emailer code, and reduced the number of dependencies required upon installation.
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very good