The launch of the new version of the self-hosting messaging system "Mattermost 5.22”, Which is focused on providing communication between developers and company employees.
Mattermost. is positioned as an open alternative to the Slack communication system and allows you to receive and send messages, files and images, track conversation history and receive notifications on smartphones, tablets or PC. Slack-ready integration modules are supported and a large collection of native modules is provided for integration with Jira, GitHub, IRC, XMPP, Hubot, Giphy, Jenkins, GitLab, Trac, BitBucket, Twitter, Redmine, SVN, and RSS / Atom.
The server-side code for the project is written in Go and is distributed under the MIT license. The web interface and mobile apps are written in JavaScript using React, the desktop client for Linux, Windows and macOS is built on the Electron platform. MySQL and Postgres can be used as DBMS.
What's new in Mattermost 5.22?
This new version of Mattermost includes some security updates and some changes which Confluence plugin is highlighted, which is used to transmit notifications to the Mattermost channels when new comments and updates appear in Atlassian Confluence.
Improvements in channel grouping are also highlighted and flexible control over the channel display on the side panel, for example you can collapse categories, filter unread channels, define recently viewed channels, etc.
On the other hand it is mentioned that admins can use new channel-specific permissions, to create channels in read-only mode and that can be written only for certain users, for example, channels to publish ads, or also create moderated channels in which only the moderator can add or delete users and that also highlights a new channel moderation section in settings.
Regarding productivity shortcuts were introduced to change teams and ability to rearrange teams in the sidebar on drag and drop.
Also, the ability to restore activity for channels transferred to archive category directly from the user interface without using the command line utility.
Finally if you want to know more about it About this new version, you can check the details in the announcement of the new version. The link is this.
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, in addition to 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 are offered a deb package or a tar.gz package (for general use on Linux).
DEB
wget https://releases.mattermost.com/desktop/4.4.0/mattermost-desktop-4.4.0-linux-i386.deb
wget https://releases.mattermost.com/desktop/4.4.0/mattermost-desktop-4.4.0-linux-amd64.deb
TAR.GZ
wget https://releases.mattermost.com/desktop/4.4.0/mattermost-desktop-4.4.0-linux-ia32.tar.gz
wget https://releases.mattermost.com/desktop/4.4.0/mattermost-desktop-4.4.0-linux-x64.tar.gz
Installing the deb package can be done with your favorite package manager or from the terminal with:
64-bit
sudo dpkg -i mattermost-desktop-4.4.0-linux-amd64.deb
32-bit
sudo dpkg -i mattermost-desktop-4.4.0-linux-i386.deb
In the case of the tar.gz package, just unzip the package and run the “mattermost-desktop” file inside the folder.
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