Recently the release of the new version of Mattermost 7.0 was announced, focused on providing communication between developers and company employees.
Mattermost. positions itself as an open alternative to the Slack communications system and allows you to receive and send messages, files and images, track your conversation history and receive notifications on your smartphone or PC.
Slack-ready integration modules are supported, as well as a large collection of custom modules for integration with Jira, GitHub, IRC, XMPP, Hubot, Giphy, Jenkins, GitLab, Trac, BitBucket, Twitter, Redmine, SVN, and RSS/Atom .
Main new features of Mattermost 7.0
In this new version that is presented, we can find that support for folded response threads has been stabilized and enabled by default. Comments are now collapsed and do not take up space in the main message thread.
Information about the presence of comments is displayed in the form of the label «N responses», clicking on which leads to the disclosure of responses in the sidebar.
Besides it, a test version of new mobile applications for Android and iOS has been proposed, in which the interface has been modernized and it has become possible to work with several Mattermost servers at the same time.
Moreover, implemented experimental support for voice calls and screen sharing. Voice calls are available on both the desktop and mobile apps, as well as the web interface.
During voice communication, the team can continue to communicate in text chat, manage projects and tasks, view checklists, and do any other Mattermost activity in parallel without interrupting the call.
The interface for communicating in channels has a panel with tools for formatting messages, allowing you to use markup without learning Markdown syntax.
Added built-in checklist editor (online) ("Playbooks"), which allows you to change typical worklists for teams in different situations from the main interface, without opening separate dialog boxes.
Of the other changes that stand out from this new version:
- Added information about the use of checklists by teams to the statistics report.
The ability to connect handlers and actions (for example, sending a notification to specific channels) that are called when the state of watchlists is updated is provided. - An experimental app bar with the most used plugins and built-in apps (for example, for integration with external services like Zoom) has been implemented.
- It provided the formation of DEB and RPM packages with a desktop application. The packages provide support for Debian 9+, Ubuntu 18.04+, CentOS/RHEL 7 and 8.
Finally if you want to know more about it, you can consult the following link.
How to install Mattermost on Linux?
For those interested in being able to install Mattermost on their system, should go to the official website of the application and in its download section you can find the sections for each supported Linux distribution (for the server).
While for the client the links for the different systems are offered desktop and mobile operating systems. The link is this.
As for the server package, We are offered packages for Ubuntu, Debian or RHEL, as well as an implementation option with Docker, but to obtain the package we must provide our email.
You can follow the following installation guide, it only differs in package installation, but configuration wise it is the same for any distro. The link is this.
On the client's side, For Linux, we currently have support for distributions that support deb or rpm packages.
To perform the installation, simply open a terminal and type the following:
curl -o- https://deb.packages.mattermost.com/setup-repo.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install mattermost-desktop Finally for Arch Linux a package is already compiled for distribution or derivatives thereof, within the AUR repositories.
To obtain it, they only need to have the AUR repository enabled in their pacman.conf file and have yay installed.
The installation is done with the command:
yay mattermost-desktop