Actor v3.0.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2016-08-03 // over 8 years ago
  • 🚀 Release notes

    • 🍱 :shipit: a lot of new group features
    • 🛠 🐛 various bugfixes
    • ⚡️ 🚀 server dependencies updates
    🆕 New groups 🎉

    🚀 This release focused on group features, including:

    • private and public channels;
    • short names for public groups. Just like user can have nickname, group can have short names assigned by owner. Short name can be used to find group in global search, or invite people with nice invite url.
    • shared history for public groups;
    • multiple group admins;
    • ownership transfer;
    • fine grained permission settings for admins/members. Owner of group decides what members can/can't do;
    • 🐎 optimized performance for big groups.

    ⚡️ How to get this update

    If you use actor-bootstrap

    🏗 Make sure you have the latest revision of https://github.com/actorapp/actor-bootstrap, and server/build.sbt file contains correct version of actor-server-sdk, like this:

     libraryDependencies += "im.actor.server" % "actor-server-sdk" % "3.0.0"
    
    If you have the previous version of actor-server, installed via PPA

    execute on your server:

    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade actor
    
    If you don't have previous actor-server installation

    👉 Use automatic installation script on Ubuntu 14.04


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