I’m waiting too for the final release to start a new project and refactor another one already in production.
fbutano
tomkonidas
tozz
I might’ve missed it but is there any upgrade notes except the deprecations in the readme? I know Phoenix tend to be very backwards compatible, but there’s a lot of nice changes like scopes that would be nice to have some kind of migration path for 
phoenixdiff.org works of course, but it’s quite a lot of changes in this one.
chrismccord
Creator of Phoenix
Scopes are strictly generator based, so there is no real upgrade path there, but you can run the generators and see the patterns if you want to adopt and refactor in your own application.
groig
Whats the recommended way of learning when these versions are released other than watching the forum threads?
sodapopcan
I just go through the changelog (already linked) and read the corresponding docs for the features I’m interested in. I’m sure AI could do this for you but I’m still a Luddite in that regard so I don’t know how good or bad that experience is.
BrightEyesDavid
Here’s the Atom feed for the tags to use in your favourite feed reader:
https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/tags.atom
Alternatively, for the releases (this seems to show recent releases even though they’re not on the Releases page):
groig
Yeah, I do read the changelogs but I mean getting notified. For instance the 1.8 initial rc got a blog post, forum pinned post, etc. but I just learned that the final 1.8.0 got released because the post from @tomkonidas. AFAIK the Phoenix repo doesn’t use Github releases so watching the repo doesn’t work either, right?