release , a server platform for deploying corporate messengers suitable for facilitating communication among employees and development teams. The project was initially developed by Zulip and was made open-source after being acquired by Dropbox under the Apache 2.0 license. The server-side code is written in Python using the Django framework. The client software is available for Linux, Windows, macOS, and , and also includes a built-in web interface.
The system supports both direct messaging between two users as well as group discussions. Zulip can be compared to a service and considered an internal corporate equivalent of Twitter, used for communication and discussions of work-related matters within large employee groups. It provides tools for tracking status and participation in multiple discussions simultaneously, using a threaded message display model, which is an optimal compromise between room-based messaging in Slack and the single public space of Twitter. The simultaneous threaded display of all discussions allows a comprehensive overview of all groups in one place while maintaining logical separation between them.
Among the features of Zulip, it also supports sending messages to users in offline mode (messages will be delivered once they are online), maintains a complete history of discussions on the server, and provides search tools for the archive, the ability to send files via drag-and-drop, automatic syntax highlighting for code blocks shared in messages, built-in markup language for quick list creation and text formatting, tools for group sending of notifications, the ability to create private groups, integration with Trac, Nagios, Github, Jenkins, Git, Subversion, JIRA, Puppet, RSS, Twitter, and other services, and tools for ad-hoc labeling of messages.
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- A tool for importing data from Mattermost, Slack, HipChat, Stride, and Gitter has been added. When importing from Slack, all features provided during data export for corporate plan clients are supported.
- For organizing full-text search, it is now possible to do so without installing a specialized extension for PostgreSQL, allowing the use of DBaaS platforms like Amazon RDS instead of a local database management system.
- Access to data export tools has been added to the web interface for administrators (previously, export was only done from the command line).
- Support for Debian 10 'Buster' has been added, and support for Ubuntu 14.04 has been discontinued. Support for CentOS/RHEL is not yet up to standard and will appear in future releases.
- The email notification system has been completely redesigned to a minimalist style similar to GitHub's notification system. New notification settings have been added, allowing management of the behavior for push notifications and email notifications for masks (e.g., @all), as well as changing the method of counting unread messages.
- The implementation of the gateway for parsing incoming emails has been revamped. Support for streaming Zulip message threads to mailing lists has been added, in addition to the previously available tools for integrating with Zulip services for sending emails.
- Built-in support for authentication has been (Security Assertion Markup Language). The code has been rewritten for integration with Google authentication mechanisms — all OAuth/social authentication backends have been revamped using the python-social-auth module.
- The interface includes a search operator 'streams:public', allowing users to search through the entire open messaging history of the organization.
- Markdown formatting now includes syntax for linking to discussion topics.
- Moderator settings have been expanded to selectively manage user permissions for creating their own channels and inviting new users to them.
- Support for previewing web pages mentioned in messages has been moved to the beta testing stage.
- The appearance has been optimized, with significant redesign of the indentation for lists, quotes, and code blocks.
- New integration modules with BitBucket Server, Buildbot, Gitea, Harbor, and Redmine have been added. Formatting improvements have been made to existing integration modules.
- Full translations have been prepared for Russian and Ukrainian languages.
Source: opennet.ru
