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This now covers most features that will be in the Zulip 2.2 release.
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**Highlights:**
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**Highlights:**
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- Added support for Ubuntu 20.04 Focal. This release drops support
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for Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial and Debian 9 Stretch.
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- Redesigned the top navbar/search area to be much cleaner and show
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useful data like subscriber counts and stream descriptions in
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default views.
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- Redesigned "Notification settings" to have an intuitive table
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format and display any individual streams with non-default settings.
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- Added support for moving topics between streams. This was by far
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Zulip's most-requested feature.
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- Added support for GitLab authentication.
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- Added support for GitLab authentication.
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- Added an organization setting controlling who can use private messages.
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- Added an organization setting controlling who can use private messages.
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- Added support for default stream groups, which allow organizations
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- Added support for default stream groups, which allow organizations
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to offer options of sets of streams when new users sign up.
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to offer options of sets of streams when new users sign up.
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Currently can only be managed via the Zulip API.
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Currently can only be managed via the Zulip API.
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- Quote-and-reply now includes a link to the quoted message.
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- Quote-and-reply now generates a handy link to the quoted message.
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- Replaced file upload frontend with one supporting chunked upload.
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We expect this to enable uploading much larger files using Zulip.
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- Upgraded Django from 1.11.x to the latest LTS series, 2.2.x.
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- Upgraded Django from 1.11.x to the latest LTS series, 2.2.x.
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- Added integrations for ErrBit and AlertManager.
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- Added integrations for ErrBit, Grafana, and AlertManager.
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- Extended API documentation to have detailed data on most responses,
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validated against the API's actual implementation.
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- Added support for programmable message retention policies.
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- Added a new incoming webhook API that accepts messages in the format
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used by Slack's incoming webhooks API.
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- Introduced the Zulip API Feature Level, a concept that will greatly
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simplify the implementation of mobile, terminal, and desktop clients
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that need to talk to a wide range of supported Zulip server
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versions, as well as the [Zulip API
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changelog](https://zulip.com/api/changelog).
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- Our primary official domain is now zulip.com, not zulipchat.com.
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**Upgrade notes:**
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**Upgrade notes:**
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- Logged in users may be logged out during this one-time upgrade to
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- Logged in users will be logged out during this one-time upgrade to
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transition them to more secure session cookies.
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transition them to more secure session cookies.
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- This release contains dozens of database migrations, but we don't
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anticipate any of them being particularly expensive compared to
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those in past major releases.
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- The format of the `JWT_AUTH_KEYS` setting has changed to include an
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- The format of the `JWT_AUTH_KEYS` setting has changed to include an
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[algorithms](https://pyjwt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/algorithms.html)
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[algorithms](https://pyjwt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/algorithms.html)
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list: `{"subdomain": "key"}` becomes `{"subdomain": {"key": "key",
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list: `{"subdomain": "key"}` becomes `{"subdomain": {"key": "key",
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"algorithms": ["HS256"]}}`.
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"algorithms": ["HS256"]}}`.
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- Added a new Organization Owner permission above the previous
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Organization Administrator. All existing organization
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administrators are automatically converted into organization owners.
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In the future, certain administrative settings will only be editable
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by Organization Owners.
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**Full feature changelog:**
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**Full feature changelog:**
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- Added new options in "Manage streams" to sort by stream activity or
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number of subscribers.
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- Added new options to control whether the incoming email integration
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- Added new options to control whether the incoming email integration
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prefers converting the plain text or HTML content of an email.
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prefers converting the plain text or HTML content of an email.
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- Added server support for creating an account from the mobile apps.
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- Added server support for creating an account from mobile/terminal apps.
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- Added server support for desktop app social authentication being
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- The Zulip desktop apps now do social authentication (Google, GitHub,
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done via an external browser.
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etc.) via an external browser.
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- Added support for setting an organization-wide default language for
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code blocks.
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- Added an API endpoint for fetching a single user.
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- Added an API endpoint for fetching a single user.
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- Added built-in rate limiting for password authentication attempts.
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- Added built-in rate limiting for password authentication attempts.
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- Added data export/import support for organization logo and icon.
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- Added data export/import support for organization logo and icon.
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- Added documentation for several more API endpoints.
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- Added documentation for several more API endpoints.
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- Added new email address visibility option hiding real email
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addresses from organization administrators in the Zulip UI.
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- Added new "Mention time" markdown feature to communicate about times
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in a timezone-aware fashion.
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- Added a new API that allows the mobile/desktop/terminal apps to
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open uploaded files in an external browser that may not be logged in.
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- Added several database indexes that significantly improve
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performance of common queries.
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- Added an organization setting to disable the compose box video call feature.
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- Added a user setting to disable sharing one's presence information
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with other users.
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- Added support for IdP-initiated SSO in the SAML authentication backend.
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- Normal users can now see invitations they sent via organization settings.
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- Rewrote the Zoom video call integration.
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- Polished numerous subtle elements of Zulip's visual design.
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- Improved handling of GitHub accounts with several email addresses.
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- Improved "Manage streams" UI to clearly identify personal settings
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and use pills for adding new subscribers.
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- Improved left sidebar popovers to clearly identify administrative actions.
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- Improved Sentry, Taiga, GitHub, GitLab, Semaphore, and many other integrations.
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- Improved "Muted topics" UI to show when a topic was muted.
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- Removed the right sidebar "Group PMs" widget. It's functionality is
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available in the left sidebar "Private messages" widget.
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- Removed a limitation on editing topics of messages more than a week old.
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- The Gitter data import tool now supports importing multiple Gitter
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rooms into a single Zulip organization.
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- Missed-message emails and various onboarding content are now tagged
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for translation.
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- Redesigned the notice about large numbers of unread messages to be
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a banner (no longer a modal) and to use a better trigger.
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- Cleaned up dozens of irregularities in how the Zulip API formats
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data when returning it to clients.
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- Extended stream-level settings for who can post to a stream.
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- Extended stream-level settings for who can post to a stream.
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- Extended GET /messages API to support a more intuitive way to
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- Extended GET /messages API to support a more intuitive way to
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request the first unread or latest message as the anchor.
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request the first unread or latest message as the anchor.
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- Muted topics will now only appear behind "more topics".
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- Muted topics will now only appear behind "more topics".
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- Improved UI for picking which streams to invite new users to.
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- Improved UI for picking which streams to invite new users to.
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- Improved UI for reviewing one's muted topics.
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- Improved UI for reviewing one's muted topics.
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- Improved UI for message edit history.
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- Fixed many minor issues with Zulip's markdown processors.
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- Fixed many minor issues with Zulip's markdown processors.
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- Fixed many subtle issues with the message editing UI.
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- Fixed several subtle issues with the default nginx configuration.
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- Fixed minor issues with various keyboard shortcuts.
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- Fixed minor issues with various keyboard shortcuts.
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- Fixed UI bugs with Zulip's image lightbox.
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- Specifying `latex` or `text` as the language for a code block now
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does LaTeX syntax highlighting (`math` remains the recommended code
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block language to render LaTeX syntax into display math).
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- Optimized performance for get_events, improving Zulip's scalability
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for connected clients per Tornado process by a factor of ~4.
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- Fixed performance problems when adding subscribers in organizations
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with thousands of streams.
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- Fixed performance issues with typeahead and presence in
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- Fixed performance issues with typeahead and presence in
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organizations with 10,000s of total users.
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organizations with 10,000s of total users.
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- Fixed guest users being added to the notifications stream
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- Fixed guest users being added to the notifications stream
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unconditionally.
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unconditionally.
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- Fixed inconsistencies in the APIs for fetching users and streams.
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- Fixed inconsistencies in the APIs for fetching users and streams.
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- Fixed several subtle bugs with local echo in rare race conditions.
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- Added a migration to fix invalid analytics data resulting from a
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missing unique constraint (and then add the constraint).
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- Dramatically simplified the process for adding a new authentication backend.
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- Added webhook support for AnsibleTower 9.x.y.
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- Added webhook support for AnsibleTower 9.x.y.
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- Removed New User Bot and Feedback Bot. Messages they had sent are
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- Removed New User Bot and Feedback Bot. Messages they had sent are
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migrated to have been sent by Notification Bot.
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migrated to have been sent by Notification Bot.
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- Optimized performance for get_events, improving Zulip's scalability.
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- Reduced visual size of emoji in message bodies for a cleaner look.
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- Replaced file upload frontend with one supporting chunked upload.
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future releases.
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- Improved error messages when trying to invite a user with an
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- Improved error messages when trying to invite a user with an
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existing, deactivated, account.
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existing, deactivated, account.
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- Improved server logging format to refer to users with
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`userid@subdomain` rather than referencing email addresses.
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- Improved warnings when sending wildcard mentions to large streams.
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- Improved warnings when sending wildcard mentions to large streams.
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- Migrated the frontend codebase to use native ES6 data structures.
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- Migrated the frontend codebase to use native ES6 data structures.
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- Migrated settings for notifications streams to our standard UX model.
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- Migrated settings for notifications streams to our standard UX model.
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- Various security hardening changes suggested by the PySA static analyzer.
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- Modernized the codebase to use many Python 3.6 and ES6 patterns.
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- Added tooling to automatically generate all screenshots in
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integration docs.
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- This release largely completes the SCSS refactoring of the codebase.
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- Replaced our CasperJS frontend integration test system with Puppeteer.
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- Extracted the typeahead and markdown libraries for reuse in the
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- Extracted the typeahead and markdown libraries for reuse in the
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mobile apps.
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mobile apps.
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- Removed the legacy websockets-based system for sending messages. This
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- Removed the legacy websockets-based system for sending messages. This
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