Wow, reading through the changelog for 5.7. Looks like some big changes are coming: https://github.com/sharetribe/sharetribe/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
Looking forward to it, but not so much the merge in of my hacks 
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Yep, the next release will contain a lot of code changes However, most of them are happening under the hood, so there’s a great change that the merge will not be that difficult.
One of the biggest thing we did was that we removed the ability for one user account to join and belong to multiple communities. This is something that is probably irrelevant for most of the OS installations. My guess is that most of the OS users are hosting only one community per instance (my guess, please comment if I’m wrong)
Another big change is that we will soon start building our UI with React. This release contains now the React on Rails environment, so some changes are needed to the hosting / development environment.
After you have upgraded, please tell us how did it go! We’re doing our best to summarize all the changes in CHANGELOG and add detailed UPGRADE steps. Would be really nice to hear if the upgrade steps were any good and how to improve them in the future.
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Saw over 650+ changes on git and was wondering the same. Thanks for sharing. Keep up the excellent work!
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We have now released 5.7.0!
As Mikko said, we have added lots of changes, but there are not that much user-facing changes (yet). E.g. the first React components are only visible for marketplace admins. However, there are quite many changes to build environment. To build React components we use Webpack (node environment) and the build is started with Foreman. You can read more from our CHANGELOG & UPGRADE steps as well as from client/README.md
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