  The GlueX experiment at Jefferson Lab ran with its first commissioning beam
in late 2014 and the spring of 2015. Data were collected on both plastic and
liquid hydrogen targets, and much of the detector has been commissioned. All of
the detector systems are now performing at or near design specifications and
events are being fully reconstructed, including exclusive production of
$\pi^{0}$, $\eta$ and $\omega$ mesons. Linearly-polarized photons were
successfully produced through coherent bremsstrahlung and polarization transfer
to the $\rho$ has been observed.
