## New Features

### Activity view
The new activity view keeps track of recent changes and trends on your deployment.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mvk87e7jiq47c8j/Screenshot%202015-11-16%2019.33.33.png?dl=0

### Notifications on collections and saved searches
You can now set up email or SMS notifications for new posts added to collections or matching saved searches.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xdd7ak0emgjbgb9/Screenshot%202015-11-16%2019.32.34.png?dl=0

### Prompts to configure a new deployment
New deployments now prompt you to configure the deployment on your first login.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/n3vas5pqp3n1gs2/Screenshot%202015-11-16%2019.28.58.png?dl=0

### Dropped support for PHP 5.4
PHP 5.4 recently reached end-of-life. We've dropped support for PHP 5.4 so we can keep improving our codebase and using other libraries in the PHP ecosystem.

## Other Improvements
- Removed username's and moved to using emails instead
- Caching layer to the client speed things up
- Improved UX on list view
- Cleaner data sources settings to make it clear what needs to be configured before enabling a data source
- New alert and confirmation dialogs
- Better client start up. Load setting before we render everything
- Show "There are no posts yet" on new sites
- Added API to fetch all stages and attributes
- Rate limiting for login attempts to prevent brute force attacks
- Added configurable quotas for posts, post type and admins
- API: Better error reporting for validation issues
- Added config get/set console commands
- Added default post type on new deployments
- CLI task to create admin user for a deployment
- Added required indicator asterisks to set required fields
- Load site name into page title
- Improved iconpicker and added to category picker
- Ability to upload files to CDN, instead of local filesystem
- Make sure maps use map settings consistently
- Drop support for PHP 5.4
- Remove defunct kohana models
- Remove stats and posts/export APIs
- Remove old Kohana authentication modules
- Add multisite db switching (for powering ushahidi.io)
- Default to MySQLi connection if DB_TYPE not set
- Updated vagrant setup to work with Puppet 4+

## Bug Fixes
- Fixed headings on saved search and collection settings
- Fixed error handling when uploading a banner image
- Various fixes to charting views
- Fixed bugs in email, twitter and SMSSync data providers
- Lots of other smaller fixes