v27.224

This was an alpha-only release.

Highlights for users

• We now offer the app in Gujarati. Also, updated translations for Italian, Turkish, and Chinese (Taiwan). Thanks as always to our kind volunteer translators!

Plus other fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.

Highlights for developers

• We now show the test-notification button when the server is FL 234+ instead of 217+. (PR #5819)

• Bumped the Android Gradle Plugin from 7.0.4 to 7.2.2. (PR #5818)

• Ran yarn upgrade. (PRs #5818, #5823)

• Resolved issues: PR #5823, PR #5819, PR #5818

sha256sum -c <<EOF
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EOF

v27.223

Highlights for users

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

Plus other fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.

Highlights for developers

• Updated CocoaPods to 1.13.0.

• We now warn when the realm's push-notifications plan will be expiring soon. (PRs #5812 and #5814)

• Resolved issues: PR #5814, PR #5812

sha256sum -c <<EOF
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EOF

v27.222

Highlights for users

• We now show a "(guest)" indicator on guest users' names, unless your organization is running Zulip Server 8.0+ and has turned the indicator off: https://zulip.com/help/guest-users . (#5804)

Plus other fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.

Highlights for developers

• Resolved issues: #5804, #5785, #5805

sha256sum -c <<EOF
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EOF

v27.221

Highlights for users

• New "Send a test notification" button in the notification settings, if your organization is running Zulip Server 8 (to be released soon). (#5796)

Highlights for developers

• Resolved issues: #5796

sha256sum -c <<EOF
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EOF

v27.220

Highlights for users

• Support for followed topics, an upcoming Zulip Server 8 feature. (#5769, #5770, #5771)

• We now offer the app in Latvian and Tagalog. Thanks as always to our kind volunteer translators!

Highlights for developers

• Resolved issues: #5771, #5770, #5769

sha256sum -c <<EOF
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EOF

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)