v27.181

Highlights for users, vs v27.178 (last prod release)

• (Android) Notifications have a distinct sound, show more context, and expand to individual conversations. (#2691, #4842, #5136, #3150)
• Fixed one cause of slow startup times. (#5226)
• Fixed a family of bugs when a stream is renamed while you're looking at it. (#4333)
• Wordle players rejoice: Zulip fully supports the emoji for large green, yellow, and black squares. (#5220)

Plus, like every release, other fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.

Highlights for developers, vs. 27.177 (last release from main)

• Platforms and dependencies:

  • Bumped targetSdkVersion to 31, aka Android 12. Almost a year ahead of deadline! (#5101)

  • Upgraded to Flow v0.141.0. (#5219)

  • Upgraded to React Native v0.64.3 from v0.64.2, so a new minor release. (#5167)

  • Migrated to Expo modules, from their "unimodules". This unblocks upgrading Expo packages more generally, and we did. (#5133, #5203)

• Server versions and API:

  • We warn to Sentry on server versions before server-3.0. The minimum supported version, the threshold for warning users, remains server-2.1. (#5218)

  • Our code now relies on server-1.9, i.e. Zulip Server 1.9+, released in 2018. These changes affected only comments and tests; future changes to rely on 2.0 and later will change actual behavior, as did the change in v27.177 to rely on server-1.8. (#5192)

  • In update_message events for server stealth-edits, we handle a possible future protocol with user_id: null instead of omitted. (#5194)

• We link separately to /policies/ on zulip.com and on the current server, rather than only to /terms/ and /privacy/ on the current server. (#5168)

• Types and data structures:

  • Our migrations for our Redux data now have tests. These found a year-old migration didn't work; it's fixed. (#5190)

  • We now use stream IDs instead of stream names to identify streams in most places, including the Narrow type. (#5183, #5205, #4333, #5223, toward #3918)

  • We now use $ReadOnlyArray and read-only object types in lots more places, including all the array and object types in our actions and other Redux-related types. (#5186)

• Resolved issues: #5145, #4840, #5168, #5156, #5162, #5171, #5101, #5187, #4687, #5195, #5206, #5133, #4333, #5130, #5218, #5220, #3150, #5223, #5226

  • Of these, #4840, #5156, and #5162 were also in the two cherry-pick releases v27.178 and v27.179.

  • #5206 was a regression in v27.180, not present in any beta or production release.

  • User-visible fixes not detailed in user highlights include: #5187, #5195, #5223, plus #5068 (in beta v27.176 highlights), plus see v27.177 and v27.176.

Highlights for developers in 27.177, vs. 27.176

(This was an alpha-only release.)

• We now warn the user when the server isn't registered for push notifications. (#1507)

• The tools/checkout-keystore script, used in preparing the published builds, now decrypts the keystore with Sequoia PGP rather than GPG. (PR #5144)

• Resolved issues: #5136, #1507, #4631, #5138, #5031, #5140, #5143, #5153

  • User-visible fixes not detailed in user highlights include: #4631, #5143

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v27.179

This is a stable release in the v27.176 series, with cherry-picked changes atop v27.176.

Highlights for users, vs. v27.176

• Fix bug where unreads screen could lead to an empty list of messages if topic was edited (#4840)
• Add a "Mark all as read" button in PM conversations, just like in topics and streams (#5156)
• (iOS) Fix behavior when you have "Prefer Cross-Fade Transitions" chosen in system settings (#5162)

Highlights for developers, vs. v27.176

• Resolved issues: #4840, #5156, #5162

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v27.178

This is a stable release in the v27.174 series, with cherry-picked changes atop v27.175.

Highlights for users, vs. v27.175

• Fix bug where unreads screen could lead to an empty list of messages if topic was edited (#4840)
• Add a "Mark all as read" button in PM conversations, just like in topics and streams (#5156)
• (iOS) Fix behavior when you have "Prefer Cross-Fade Transitions" chosen in system settings (#5162)

Highlights for developers, vs. v27.175

• Resolved issues: #4840, #5156, #5162

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v27.176

Highlights for users

• (Android) Notifications have been reworked to be more informative and easier to read. (#2691, #4842)
• (Android) The app no longer restarts when you switch between split-view mode and fullscreen mode. (#5068)

Plus, like every release, other fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.

Highlights for developers

• Made more progress on preparing our Flow types for better multi-account support. (#5066, #5083, #5105, #5113)
• Resolved issues (earliest first): #4239, #5081, #2691, #4633, #5068

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v27.175

This is very similar to the previous beta release v27.174, but with a build-time fix for a Sentry misconfiguration.

Highlights for users, vs v27.171 (last prod release)

• The settings menu has moved from the bottom nav bar to the Profile tab. (#4929)
• The app now respects the server's "mandatory topics" setting. (#4378)
• (Android) When sharing content from other apps, you can now send it to just yourself. (#5020)
• New translation for Sinhala. (#5071)

Plus, like every release, other fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.

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v27.174

This was a beta-only release.

(v27.173 was an alpha-only release, due to the issue fixed in #5075 / #5076.)

Highlights for users, vs v27.171 (last prod release)

• The settings menu has moved from the bottom nav bar to the Profile tab. (#4929)
• The app now respects the server's "mandatory topics" setting. (#4378)
• (Android) When sharing content from other apps, you can now send it to just yourself. (#5020)
• New translation for Sinhala. (#5071)

Plus, like every release, other fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.

Highlights for users, vs v27.172 (last beta)

• (Android) Fixed a bug where "No Internet connection" sometimes showed when it shouldn't. (#5065)
• The settings menu has moved from the bottom nav bar to the Profile tab. (#4929)
• The app now respects the server's "mandatory topics" setting. (#4378)
• (Android) When sharing content from other apps, you can now send it to just yourself. (#5020)
• New translation for Sinhala. (#5071)

Plus, like every release, other fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.

Highlights for developers, vs v27.173

• Resolved issues (earliest first): #5075, #5076, part of #3814, #5018, #5071

Highlights for developers, in v27.173 vs v27.172

• Set targetSdkVersion to 30 and switched over to "scoped storage". (#4283, #4284)

• Upgraded @sentry/react-native to 3.1.1, the latest. (#5050)

• Improved our Flow types in src/generics.js and wrote tests for them, with demos for writing more tests. (#5043, #5053, #5054)

• Resolved issues (earliest first): #5050, part of #5038, #4929, #4866, #4811, #4812, #4378, #4747, #3998, #5020, #5061, #5065, #5060, #4283, #4284

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v27.172

Highlights for users

• Added a new action sheet on long-pressing a stream name. (#4899)

Plus, like every release, many other fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.

Highlights for developers

• (ios) Fixed some build issues with Xcode 13. (#5028)

• Fixed a Jest test flake on ZulipAsyncStorage. (#4994)

• Cleaned up some code in src/utils/recipients.js. (#5011)

• Made progress on preparing our Flow types for better multi-account support. (#5016, #5017, #5023, #5030)

• Fixed an edge case in our new persisting logic. (#5025)

• Removed the apparently idle BackNavigationHandler component. (#5033)

• Formatted the redux-persist code so it's closer to our style. (#5040)

• Resolved issues (earliest first): #4994, #5012, #5011, #5016, #5017, #5003, #5028, #5025, #5023, #5030, #4899, #5021, #5033, #5035, #5040

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v27.171

Highlights for users

• (iOS) Fixed bug that could cause notifications to make sound with device in silent mode. (#4897)

Plus, like every release, many other fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.

Highlights for developers

• Sentry is now fully set up for Android-native code. (PR #4996)

• The types PmOutbox and StreamOutbox are now distinguished more fully. (PR #4998)

• We now require sender_id, server, and realm_uri in notification data, rejecting forms from servers we no longer support. (PR #4967)

• We've prepared the persistent-data storage code so it's easier to add transaction logic and make it sound: #4841. We've also narrowed the race window to mitigate the symptoms of that issue, by using AsyncStorage.multiSet and by separating the serialization step from the storage step. (PR #4694)

• Outbox values now have a stream_id. (PR #5000)

• We've improved the Sentry logging for an unexpected report from the invariant in RawLabel. (PR #5004)

• When reporting API errors to Sentry, the invalid-JSON case is now a bit more explicit. (PR #5002)

• Resolved issues (earliest first): #4897, PR #4996, PR #4998, PR #4967, PR #4934, PR #4694, PR #5000, PR #5004, PR #5002

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v27.170

Highlights for users

• Improved input-focus behavior in the compose box. (#4981)
• Messages that @-mention you now appear even if you've muted their topic or stream. (#3472)
• Fixed a "Failed to send" bug when scrolled far up in some message views. (#4973)

Plus, like every release, many other fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.

Highlights for developers

• The Git branch for the project has been renamed from "master" to "main", as part of the shift in the broader Git community toward this more inclusive convention. Please see "#announce > Git branch renamed to ‘main’" on the Zulip community server (CZO) to learn more.

• Upgraded to React Native v0.64! (#4426)

  This introduces two new warnings, and you can ignore them both: one
  when you run yarn, and one when you run Jest. Those will disappear
  once we use a version of jest-expo that targets RN v0.64. (We
  expect a release from them soon.)

• Resolved issues (earliest first): PR #4973, PR #4831, PR #4981, #4907, #4951, #4909, #3472, #4426, PR #4992

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v27.169

Highlights for users

• Messages are no longer marked as read when scrolling in search, @-mentions, and starred-message views (#4852).
• We now offer a more complete translation for Chinese (Taiwan) (PR #4285). Many thanks to our kind volunteer translators!

Plus, like every release, many other fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.

Highlights for developers

• (Android) Dropped support for Android versions older than Android 6 (PR #4938).

• Over a dozen dependencies upgraded across major versions (PRs #4949, #4950, #4952); also other minor/patch upgrades, and some deps removed.

• Resolved issues (earliest first): #4852, #4890, #4938, #4964, #4285, #4870, #4764

  • Relative to the beta-only release v27.166, also #4921 (cherry-picked into beta-only release v27.167); and PRs #4960, #4959, and #4965 (cherry-picked into stable release v27.168).

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