News Report: Zulip 8.0 Released
Zulip has presented Release Zulip 8, a server platform for deploying corporate messengers suitable for organizing communication between employees and groups of developers. The project was originally developed by Zulip and was opened after its absorption by Dropbox under the Apache 2.0 license. The server part code was written in the Python language using the Django framework. The client is available for Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS, and a built-in Web interface is also provided.
The system supports both direct exchanges of messages between two people and holding group discussions. Zulip can be compared with the service Slack and considered as an internal corporate analogue of Twitter, used to communicate and discuss working issues in large groups of employees. It provides the ability to track the condition and participate simultaneously in several discussions using a threaded message display model, which is the optimal compromise between linking to Slack rooms and the unified public space of Twitter. The simultaneous thread-shaped display of all discussions allows you to cover all groups in one place while maintaining the logical separation between them.
Among the capabilities of Zulip, support for sending messages to users in offline mode, maintaining a full history of discussions on the server and finding them in the archive, the possibility of sending files in Drag-And-Drop mode, automatic syntax backlight for code transmitted in messages, and a built-in markup language for quick design of lists and formatting text. It also provides means for group sending notifications, the ability to create closed groups, and integration with Trac, Nagios, GitHub, Jenkin, Git, Subversion, Jira, Puppet, RSS, Twitter, and other services, as well as means for binding visual marks to messages.
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