docs: Update changelog since 6.0 release.

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#### Highlights
- (Unfinished) Many significant visual changes as part of Zulip's
ongoing redesign project, including message feed headers, date
dividers, error banners and tooltips.
- (Unfinished) Added support for unmuting a topic in a muted stream,
previously the 4th most upvoted GitHub issue.
- Many significant visual changes as part of Zulip's ongoing redesign
project, including message feed headers, mention colors, dates and
times, compose box banners, icons, and tooltips. Many further
improvements are planned for future releases.
- Added support for unmuting a topic in a muted stream, previously the
4th most upvoted GitHub issue.
- Redesigned the permissions settings for message editing, topic
editing, and moving topics to have a cleaner model.
- New compose box features: Scheduling a message to be sent later, a
nicer stream picker, and the ability to switch between stream and
private messages.
- Numerous improvements to the Help Center, including documentation
for how to to many common tasks in the Zulip mobile apps.
for how to complete many common tasks in the Zulip mobile apps.
- Redesigned the interface and permissions model for moving topics to
be independent from message content editing, providing a cleaner
experience and better configurability.
- Renamed "Private messages" to "Direct messages" across the user
interface. We expect API changes to be integrated gradually over
coming releases due to backwards compatibility considerations.
interface, including search operators. We expect further API changes
to be integrated gradually over coming releases due to backwards
compatibility considerations.
- Added a new personal privacy setting for to what extent the user's
email address should be shared with other users in the organization;
previously this was solely controlled by organization
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with another application.
- Added new stream setting controlling which users can remove other
subscribers from the stream.
- Added new setting to control when messages are marked as read when
scrolling.
- Added notification bot messages when another user adds you to or
removes you from a user group.
- Added additional confirmation dialogs for actions deserving caution,
including marking all messages as read, removing the last user from a
private stream, and disabling all notifications for direct messages.
- Added support for deployment hooks to be run whenever the Zulip
server is upgraded.
- Added new `z` keyboard shortcut to view a message in context.
- Added new `=` keyboard shortcut to upvote an existing emoji reaction.
- Changed the `s` keyboard shortcut to be a toggle, replacing the
previous model that required both `s` and `S` keyboard shortcuts.
- Clarified automated notifications when moving and resolving topics.
- New webhook integrations: Rundeck.
- Reworked linkifiers to use URL templates for the URL patterns.
- Improved left sidebar to show more topics within the current stream,
and more private message converations, especially when many are
unread.
- Improved many interaction details in the settings subsystem,
including how files are uploaded, hover behaviors, etc.
- Improved the logged out experience to suggest logging in to see more
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pre-resolution topic.
- Improved the Slack incoming integration's handling of fancier Slack
syntax.
- Improved notification format for most Git integrations.
- Improved onboarding emails with better content and links to guides.
- Improved how uploaded files are served with the S3 file uploads
backend to better support browser caching.
- Improved the instructions for data imports from third-party tools to
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- Improved the content of onboarding emails.
- Improved default for whether to include the Zulip realm name in
the subject line of email notifications.
- Improved notification format for most Git integrations.
- Improved rendering format for emoji inside headings.
- Improved performance of rendering message views.
- Improved capabilities of compliance exports, including new CSV format.
- Fixed missing localization for dates/times in the message feed.
- Fixed a subtle issue causing files uploaded via the incoming email
gateway to not be viewable.
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- Fixed an issue the management command to garbage-collect uploaded
files that are no longer used in a message was not running in cron.
- Fixed noticeable lag when marking messages as unread in the web app.
- Fixed a bug that could cause duplicate mobile push notifications.
- Added support for configurable hooks to be run when upgrading the
Zulip server.
- Added support for using TLS to secure the RabbitMQ connection.
- Added additional confirmation dialogs for actions deserving caution,
including marking all messages as read, removing the last user from a
private stream, and disabling all notifications for direct messages.
- The Zulip API now includes a `ignored_parameters_unsupported` field
to help client developers debug when they are attempting to use a
parameter that the Zulip server does not support.
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- Converted many JavaScript modules to TypeScript.
- Reorganized the codebase, with new web/, help/, and api_docs/
top-level directories.
- Upgraded many third-party dependencies, including to Django 4.2 LTS.
#### Upgrade notes for 7.0
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feature](../production/authentication-methods.md#jwt) will need
to make minor adjustments in the format of JWT requests; see the
documentation for details on the new format.
- High volume log files like `server.log` are now by default retained
for 14 days, configured via the `access_log_retention_days`
[deployment
option](../production/deployment.md#system-and-deployment-configuration). This
replaces a harder to understand size-based algorithm that was not
easily configurable.
- The URL patterns for
[linkifiers](https://zulip.com/help/add-a-custom-linkifier) have
been migrated from a custom format string to RFC 6570 URL
templates. A database migration will automatically migrate existing
linkifiers correctly in the vast majority of cases, but some fancier
linkfiers may require manual adjustment to generate correct URLs
following this upgrade.
## Zulip 6.x series