Thredded, the best Rails forums engine, has just released v0.8.2. This is a major release that adds these major improvements:

• More granular user notification settings.
• Autocompletion for @-mentions.
• Turbolinks 5 support, and async and defer script loading support for maximum performance.
• View hooks that let your app and plugins easily extend Thredded views.
• A Code Syntax Highlighting plugin.
• A BBCode markup plugin.
• An app generator that generates a fully-configured Rails app with Thredded and Devise.

Some of the features currently in Thredded:

• Markdown post formatting.
• (Un)read posts tracking
• Email notifications, topic subscriptions, @-mentions, per-messageboard notification settings.
• Private group messaging.
• Full-text search using the database.
• Pinned and locked topics.
• List of currently online users, for all forums and per-messageboard.
• Flexible permissions system.
• Configurable moderation with fully-feature moderation UI
• Lightweight default theme configurable via Sass.
• Fully i18n’d with localizations in Brazilian Portuguese (contributions with other locales welcome)

Check out the live demo at Thredded.org.