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Zulip v2.0.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2019-03-05 // about 5 years ago

  • 2.0.0 -- 2019-03-01

    Highlights:

    • ➕ Added automation for synchronizing user avatars, custom profile
      fields, disabled status, and more from LDAP/active directory.
    • ➕ Added support for explicitly setting oneself as "away" and "user
      status" messages.
    • ➕ Added a built-in /poll slash command for lightweight polls.
    • ➕ Added experimental support for using Zoom as the video chat
      👍 provider. We now support Jitsi, Google Hangouts, and Zoom.
    • ➕ Added support for branding the top-left corner of the logged in app
      with an organization's logo.
    • Zulip's "Guest users" feature is no longer experimental.
    • The HipChat/Stride data import tool is no longer experimental.
      ✅ Our HipChat and Slack import tools are now well-tested with millions
      of messages, 10,000s of users, and 100,000s of uploaded files.
    • ➕ Added a built-in tool for backups and restoration.
    • 🗄 Deprecated support for Ubuntu Trusty. Zulip 2.0.x will continue to
      👌 support Ubuntu Trusty, but Zulip 2.1.0 will remove support for
      installing on Trusty.

    ⬆️ Upgrade notes:

    • 🚀 This release adds support for [submitting basic usage statistics] to
      help the Zulip core team. This feature can be enabled only if a server
      is using the Mobile Push Notification Service,
      0️⃣ and is enabled by default in that case. To disable it, set
      SUBMIT_USAGE_STATISTICS = False in /etc/zulip/settings.py.

    Full feature changelog:

    • ➕ Added support for CentOS 7 in the development environment
      provisioning process. This is an important step towards production
      👍 CentOS/RHEL 7 support.
    • ➕ Added a new invitation workflow with reusable links.
    • ➕ Added a new Azure Active Directory authentication integration.
      🆕 New authentication backends supported by python-social-auth can now be
      ➕ added with just a few dozen lines of code.
    • ➕ Added API documentation for user groups and custom emoji.
    • Administrators can now easily delete all messages in a topic.
    • ➕ Added display of a user's role (administrator, guest, etc.) in
      various relevant places.
    • ➕ Added support for sending "topic" rather than the legacy "subject"
      for the topic in most API endpoints.
    • ➕ Added helpful notifications for some common webhook
      misconfigurations.
    • ➕ Added organization setting to control whether users are allowed to
      include message content in missed-message emails (for compliance).
    • ➕ Added an automated notification when streams are renamed.
    • ➕ Added support for changing the default notification sound.
    • ➕ Added Ctrl+. shortcut for narrowing to current compose recipient.
    • ➕ Added icons to indicate which "organization settings" tabs are
      available to regular users.
    • ➕ Added a tool for migrating from S3 to the local file uploads backend.
    • ➕ Added protocol for communicating version incompatibility to mobile apps.
    • ➕ Added support for copying avatar and other profile data when
      creating a second account on a Zulip server with a given email address.
    • ➕ Added /digest endpoint for viewing the current digest email on the web.
    • ➕ Added alert for when a user sends a message when scrolled too far up.
    • ➕ Added internationalization for outgoing emails.
    • ➕ Added a ReviewBoard integration, and improved numerous existing integrations.
    • ➕ Added support for multi-line messages for the /me feature.
    • ➕ Added markdown rendering of text when displaying custom profile fields.
    • Added "silent mentions" syntax (@_ **Tim Abbott**), which show
      visually, but don't trigger a notification to the target user.
    • ➕ Added support for using lightbox in compose preview.
    • 🔄 Changes in date no longer force a repeated recipient bar. This
      🛠 fixes a common source of confusion for new users.
    • Suppressed notifications when quoting a message mentioning yourself.
    • Message editing now has the compose widgets for emoji, video calls, etc.
    • Message editing now has a markdown preview feature just like compose.
    • Message editing now uses same "enter-sends" behavior as compose.
    • Organization administrators can now edit users' custom profile fields.
    • 🐎 Optimized performance of data import from Slack, HipChat, etc.
    • 👌 Improved "new user" emails to clearly indicator login details.
    • 👌 Improved the UI for "drafts" and "message edit history".
    • 👌 Improved linkifier handling of languages with character alphabets.
    • 👌 Improved accessibility of emoji rendering in messages bodies.
    • 💻 Eliminated UI lag when using "Quote and reply".
    • 📚 Expanded production documentation for more unusual deployment options.
    • Expanded set of characters allowed in custom Linkifiers.
    • ⚡️ Optimized development provisioning; now takes 2s in the no-op case.
    • Zulip's Help Center now has nicely generated open graph tags.
    • 🛠 Fixed missing API authentication headers for mobile file access.
    • 🛠 Fixed various select and copy-paste issues.
    • 🛠 Fixed various back button bugs in settings UI.
    • 🛠 Fixed various mobile web visual issues.
    • 🛠 Fixed unnecessary resizing of animated custom emoji.
    • 🛠 Fixed several performance issues for organizations with 1000s of streams.
    • 🛠 Fixed various error handling bugs sending push notifications.
    • 🛠 Fixed handling of diacritics in user-mention typeahead.
    • 🛠 Fixed several bugs with importing data into Zulip's S3 backend.
    • 🛠 Fixed display of full recipients list in "private messages" hover.
    • 🛠 Fixed bugs involving muting and renamed streams.
    • 🛠 Fixed soft-deactivation performance issues with many thousands of users.
    • Countless behind-the-scenes improvements to Zulip's codebase,
      ✅ tooling, automated tests, error handling, and APIs.