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 ## News  
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+`Feb 14th, 2019` - **[netdata v1.12.0 released!](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/releases)** 
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+Release 1.12 is made out of 211 pull requests and 22 bug fixes.
+The key improvements are:
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+- Introducing `netdata.cloud`, the free netdata service for all netdata users
+- High performance plugins with go.d.plugin (data collection orchestrator written in Go)
+- 7 new data collectors and 11 rewrites of existing data collectors for improved performance
+- A new management API for all netdata servers
+- Bind different functions of the netdata APIs to different ports
+- Improved installation and updates
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 `Nov 22nd, 2018` - **[netdata v1.11.1 released!](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/releases)**  
 
 - Improved internal database to support values above 64bit.