All of these methods are stateless, there was no point to have them as
instance methods.
Mostly this allows us to remove an `allow_any_instance_of` usage.
The pre-release tags are set at the beginning of a release, so it
would be impossible to figure out which version was running if we're
running nightlies.
In that case it's better to still link to the SHA. These versions
don't get deployed to .com.
The dispatcher was trying to create a new instance of a class that is loaded in a file after main.js which would cause the filtered search to not work on issues. This would only happen on the first load when the JS is not cached. If the JS is cached, then everything will be fine.
