Needless to say, we’re incredibly excited about this release. If you’re in a hurry, you can just skim; the bolded sentences and code samples are the important takeaways.

The reason this is so long is that we’re doing the 2.0 release through our community RFC process[1]. Change can be scary when you’ve made serious investment in an open source tool, so we want to provide as much detail as we can while leaving open the opportunity to incorporate feedback.

I’d like to thank the members of the Ember core team, who paid out of pocket to spend this past weekend with me in Chicago for the face-to-face meeting where we banged out all of these details. Maintaining an indie open source project can be painful at times, but I think history demonstrates there’s no better way to foster a project that is as aligned with the goals of its users as possible.[2]

[1]: https://github.com/emberjs/rfcs

[2]: http://blog.endpoint.com/2010/01/state-of-postgres-project.h...