Zulip v2.1.2 Release Notes

Release Date: 2020-01-16 // over 4 years ago
  • 2.1.2 -- 2020-01-16

    • Corrected fix for CVE-2019-19775 (the original fix was affected by
      🔒 an unfixed security bug in Python's urllib, CVE-2015-2104).
    • Migrated data for handling replies to missed-message emails from
      semi-persistent redis to the fully persistent database.
    • ➕ Added authentication for redis and memcached even in configurations
      where these are running on localhost, for add hardening against
      attacks from malicious processes running on the Zulip server.
    • 👌 Improved logging for misconfigurations of LDAP authentication.
    • 👌 Improved error handling for invalid LDAP configurations.
    • 👌 Improved error tracebacks for invalid memcached keys.
    • 🛠 Fixed support for using LDAP with email address visibility
      limited to administrators.
    • 🛠 Fixed styling of complex markup within /me messages.
    • 🛠 Fixed left sidebar duplicating some group private message threads.
    • 🛠 Fixed the "Mentions" narrow being unable to mark messages as read.
    • 🛠 Fixed error handling bug preventing rerunning the installer.
    • 🛠 Fixed a few minor issues with migrations for upgrading from 2.0.x.