published release of the message exchange system Mattermost 7.0 , focused on ensuring the communication of developers and employees of enterprises. The server part code is written in GO and is distributed under the MIT license. web-interface and mobile applications written on JavaScript using React, desktop-client for Linux, Windows and MacOS built on the Electron platform. MySQL and postgreSQL can be used as a DBMS.
MATTERMOST is positioned as an open alternative to the communication system of communications slack and allows you to receive and send messages, files and images, track the history of negotiations and receive notifications on a smartphone or PC. maintained prepared for Slack integration modules, and a large collection of its own modules with JIRA, GITHUB, IRC, XMPP is provided , Hubot, Giphy, Jenkins, Gitlab, Trac, Bitbucket, Twitter, Redmine, SVN and RSS/Atom.
The main innovations :
- Stabilizes and on default support torn threads with answers . Comments are now rolled up and do not take places in the main flow of messages. Information on the presence of comments is displayed in the form of a “n answers” mark, pressing to which leads to the disclosure of answers in the side panel.
- A test version of the new mobile applications for android and IOS , in which the interface is modernized and the possibility of working with several Mattermost.
- experimental support for voice calls and providing joint access to the screen. Voice calls are available both in table and mobile applications, and in the Web interface. During voice communication, the team can simultaneously continue to communicate in text chat, manage projects and tasks, view the control lists and perform any other actions in Mattermost without interrupting the call.
- In the interface for communication in the channels, a panel with instruments for formatting messages is implemented, which allows to use marking without studying the syntax of Markdown.
- Added built -in (Inline) editor of the control lists (“ PlayBooks
