Zulip is an open source team chat application designed to help people collaborate
After a little over 6 months since the last release, the launch of the new version of Zulip 6 was announced , a server platform for implementing corporate messengers suitable for organizing communication between employees and development teams.
The system supports direct messaging between two people and group discussions. Zulip can be compared to Slack and considered an intra-corporate analogue of Twitter, used for communication and discussion of work-related issues among large groups of employees.
It provides the means to track status and participate in multiple discussions at the same time using a threaded message display model, which is the best compromise between the affinity of Slack Room and the unified public space of Twitter. Simultaneous viewing of all discussions allows you to cover all groups in one place, while maintaining a logical separation between them.
Main news of Zulip 6
In this new version of Zulip 6, the public access function has been stabilized , allowing channels to be opened for everyone to see, including those without a Zulip account. Additionally, the ability to quickly log in without registering and select a language, dark or light theme for unregistered users has been added.
Another notable change in the new version is the redesigned sidebar , which simplifies navigation through discussions. The panel now displays information about new messages in private discussions, which can be accessed with a single click. Topics with unread mentions are marked with an "@" symbol.
In addition, we can also find that a button has been added to go to the discussion to which the message is being sent (Zulip allows you to send messages to another discussion while you are in a discussion, for example, when you need to forward some information to a discussion with another participant, a new button allows you to go to this discussion).
Furthermore, the ability is provided to display up to two additional fields with information in the user profile in addition to the standard fields with name, email and last login time, for example, the country of residence, date of birth, etc. can be displayed.
Users have the opportunity to mark messages as unread, for example, to return to them later if there is not enough time to reply at the current time.
Another change in Zulip 6 is the ability to view a list of users (read receipts) who have read a message, including private messages and messages in channels (flow). The settings provide an option to disable this functionality for individual users and organizations.
Other notable changes in this new version of Zulip 6 include:
- Added a button to switch to invisible "mode", where the user is visible to others as if they were offline.
- The display of the names of users who sent reactions to the messages is provided (for example, you can see that the boss approved the proposal by sending ).
- The emoji collection has been updated to Unicode 14.
- The channels are divided into fixed, active and inactive.
- The interface for configuring custom fields has been redesigned. The design of maps and user profiles has been changed.
- Added a button to quickly scroll to the bottom of the current thread and automatically mark all posts as read.
- Added support for viewing all recent discussions in one place, covering both channels and private discussions.
- The right sidebar provides a default display of status messages.
- New message notification emails are now more explicit about the reason for sending the notification and allow for multiple responses.
- Completely redesigned interface to move messages between different topics and channels.
- Added modules for integration with Azure DevOps, RhodeCode, and Wekan services.
- Integration modules updated with Grafana, Harbor, NewRelic and Slack.
- Added support for Ubuntu 22.04. Dropped support for Debian 10 and PostgreSQL 10.
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Downloading and installing Zulip on Linux?
For those who are interested in being able to install Zulip, they should know that it is available for Linux, Windows, macOS, Android and iOS, and a built-in web interface is provided.
Zulip developers provide Linux users with the application in an AppImage format, which can be downloaded from their official website.
We give execution permissions with:
sudo chmod a+x zulip.AppImage
And we execute with:
./zulip.AppImage
Another installation method is through Snap packages. The installation is carried out by executing in the terminal:
sudo snap install zulip