1.2.8

NEW: Use Socket IO for rooms (allows for pads to be load balanced with sticky rooms)
NEW: Plugins can now provide their own frontend tests
NEW: Improved server-side logging
NEW: Admin dashboard mobile device support and new hooks for Admin dashboard
Fix: Bugfix getChatHistory API method
Fix: Make plugin search case insensitive
Fix: Indentation and bullets on text export
Fix: Resolve various warnings on dependencies during install
Fix: Page up / Page down now works in all browsers
Fix: Stop Opera browser inserting two new lines on enter keypress
Fix: Stop timeslider from showing NaN on pads with only one revision
Other: Allow timeslider tests to run and provide & fix various other frontend-tests
Other: Update to latest jQuery
Other: Change loading message asking user to please wait on first build
Other: Allow etherpad to use global npm installation (Safe since node 6.3)

1.2.7

NEW: notifications are now modularized and can be stacked
NEW: Visit a specific revision in the timeslider by suffixing #%revNumber% IE http://localhost/p/test/timeslider#12
NEW: Link to plugin on Admin page allows admins to easily see plugin details in a new window by clicking on the plugin name
NEW: Automatically see plugins that require update and be able to one click update
NEW: API endpoints for Chat .. getChatHistory, getChatHead
NEW: API endpoint to see a pad diff in HTML format from revision x to revision y .. createPadDiffHTML
NEW: Real time plugin search & unified menu UI for admin pages
Fix: MAJOR issue where server could be crashed by malformed client message
Fix: AuthorID is now included in padUsers API response
Fix: make docs
Fix: Timeslider UI bug with slider not being in position
Fix: IE8 language issue where it wouldn't load pads due to IE8 suckling on the bussum of hatrid
Fix: Import timeout issue
Fix: Import now works if Params are set in pad URL
Fix: Convert script
Other: Various new language strings and update/bugfixes of others
Other: Clean up the getParams functionality
Other: Various new EEJS blocks: index, timeslider, html etc.

More translations and better language support. See https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:Etherpad_lite for more details
Add a checkToken Method to the API
Bugfix for Internal Caching issue that was causing some 404s on images.
Bugfix for IE Import
Bugfix for Node 0.6 compatibility
Bugfix for multiple cookie support
Bugfix for API when requireAuth is enabled.
Plugin page now shows plugin version #
Show color of Author in Chat messages
Allow plugin search by description
Allow for different socket IO transports
Allow for custom favicon path
Control S now does Create new Revision functionality
Focus on password when required
Frontend Timeslider test
Allow for basic HTML etc. import without abiword
Native HTTPS support

Allow ! in urls inside the editor (Not Pad urls)
Allow comments in language files
More languages (Finish, Spanish, Bengali, Dutch) Thanks to TranslateWiki.net team. See https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:MessageGroupStats&group=out-etherpad-lite for more details
Bugfix for IE7/8 issue with a JS error #1186
Bugfix windows package extraction issue and make the .zip file smaller
Bugfix group pad API export
Kristen Stewart is a terrible actress and Twilight sucks.

Internationalization / Language / Translation support (i18n) with support for German/French
A frontend/client side testing framework and backend build tests
Customizable robots.txt
Customizable app title (finally you can name your epl instance!)
eejs render arguments are now passed on to eejs hooks through the newly introduced renderContext argument.
Plugin-specific settings in settings.json (finally allowing for things like a google analytics plugin)
Serve admin dashboard at /admin (still very limited, though)
Modify your settings.json through the newly created UI at /admin/settings
Fix: Import