My stepson and I noticed that the amount of damage that bows do has gone up significantly, about 2x the normal amount. Was this some kind of feature that was omitted from the release notes for 1.5 or some kind of bug?

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1364195-arrows-now-contribute-much-more-damage/

Post number 6 seems to have a valid explanation as to what going on there.