v27.219

Highlights for users

• Support for @topic mentions, an upcoming Zulip Server 8 feature. (#5792)

• Support for the upcoming Zulip Server 8 feature of showing video links and video files uploaded directly in Zulip. (#5781)

Plus other fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.

Highlights for developers

• Compatibility fixes for the upcoming "limited guests" feature in Zulip Server 8. (PR #5790, part of #5787)

• Resolved issues: PR #5790, #5781

sha256sum -c <<EOF
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EOF

v27.218

Highlights for users

• Updated translations for Belarusian, German, and Persian. Thanks as always to our kind volunteer translators!

Highlights for developers

• Increased the typing-started expiry period from 15s to 45s. (PR #5786)

• Resolved issues: PR #5786

sha256sum -c <<EOF
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EOF

v27.217

Highlights for users

• Updated translations for Chinese (China), Danish, German, and Persian. Thanks as always to our kind volunteer translators!

Highlights for developers

• Re-enabled Sentry, this time with no libsentry.so. (#5782)

• We now render @topic mentions (an upcoming Zulip Server 8 feature) correctly in the message list. (#5746)

• Resolved issues: #5782, #5746

sha256sum -c <<EOF
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EOF

v27.216

This is an Android-only release. The equivalent release for iOS was v27.214.

Highlights for users, vs. v27.213 (last prod release)

• In an interleaved stream view, "Quote and reply" now fills the topic input, if it was empty, and focuses the message input. (#5718)

Highlights for users, vs. v27.214 (last beta release)

• (Android) Disabled Sentry error reporting, to resolve crashes following a recent Android update. (#5778)

Highlights for developers, vs. v27.214 (last release from main)

• Disabled Sentry on Android again. (#5778)

sha256sum -c <<EOF
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EOF

v27.215

27.215 (2023-10-10)

This was an alpha-only, Android-only release in the v27.211 series, with cherry-picked changes atop v27.213.

Highlights for users, vs. v27.213

• (Android) Update various behavior on Android 13+ as required by Google Play. (#5453)

Highlights for developers, vs. v27.213

• Bumped targetSdkVersion to 33, aka Android 13, this time handling the new POST_NOTIFICATIONS permission. (#5753, #5453)

v27.214

On Android this was a beta-only release, and the corresponding production release was v27.216. On iOS this was a normal production release.

Highlights for users, vs. v27.213 (last prod release)

• In an interleaved stream view, "Quote and reply" now fills the topic input, if it was empty, and focuses the message input. (#5718)

Highlights for developers, vs. v27.212 (last release from main)

• (Android) Configured Sentry with enableNdk: false, as a workaround for the crash bug #5757. (#5766)
• In the notification troubleshooting screen, when the email library reports successfully sending a support email, that fact will be reported in Sentry. (PR #5775)
• Resolved issues: #5766

sha256sum -c <<EOF
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EOF

v27.213

27.213 (2023-09-20)

This is an Android-only release in the v27.211 series.

Highlights for users

• (Android) Disabled Sentry error reporting, which was causing crashes following a recent Android update. (#5757)

Highlights for developers

• Disabled Sentry on Android, as a workaround for the newly-frequent crash bug #5757.

sha256sum -c <<EOF
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EOF

v27.212

This was an alpha-only release, created 2023-09-15.

Highlights for users

• In an interleaved stream view, "Quote and reply" now fills the topic input, if it was empty, and focuses the message input. (#5718)

Highlights for developers

• Bumped targetSdkVersion to 33, aka Android 13, this time handling the new POST_NOTIFICATIONS permission. (#5753, #5453)
• Bumped kMinAllowedServerVersion to 4.0 and kMinSupportedVersion to 5.0. (PR #5762)
• Ran yarn upgrade. (PR #5756)
• (Android) Added device manufacturer/model to notification troubleshooting data. (PR #5754)
• Resolved issues: #5718, #5753, #5453

sha256sum -c <<EOF
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EOF

v27.211

This is an Android-only release. It is the same as v27.209 except its version number.

Highlights for users

• Fixed a bug introduced in v27.210 where notifications stopped working on Android 13. (#5752)

This release is identical to v27.209 except for its version number.

Highlights for developers

• Reverted the targetSdkVersion bump to 33, so it's back to 31. (#5752)
• Resolved issues: PR #5752

sha256sum -c <<EOF
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EOF

v27.210

This is an Android-only release.

Highlights for users

• (Android) In this release, we adjust some build configuration as required by Google Play. (We set targetSdkVersion to 33, a.k.a. Android 13.) (#5453)

Highlights for developers

• Bumped targetSdkVersion to 33, aka Android 13. (#5453)
• Resolved issues: #5453

sha256sum -c <<EOF
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EOF