Zulip

6.1 — 2023-01-23

• Fixed loading the web app on Safari 13 and lower.
• Recent conversations now displays the “Participants” column for private messages too.
• Fixed minor bugs in “Recent conversations” focus and re-rendering.
• Fixed bugs that caused some unicode emoji to be incorrectly unavailable.
• Fixed subtle display bugs rendering the left sidebar.
• Fixed a bug causing the message feed to briefly show a “no matching messages” notice while loading.
• Fixed a double escaping display bug when displaying user names in an error notice.
• Fixed an unhandled exception when displaying user cards if the current user has an invalid timezone configured.
• Fixed a subtle interaction bug with the compose box preview widget.
• Added a workaround for a bug in Chromium affecting older versions of the Zulip desktop app that would cause horizontal lines to appear between messages.
• Stopped clipping the tops of tall characters in stream and topic names.
• Use internationalized form of “at” in message timestamps.
• Updated translations.
• Fixed the “custom” value for the “delay before sending message notification emails” setting.
• Fixed an error which prevented users from changing stream-specific notification settings.
• Fixed the redirect from /apps to https://zulip.com/apps/.
• Started preserving timezone information in Rocket.Chat imports.
• Updated the Intercom integration to return success on HEAD requests, which it uses to verify its configuration.
• Documented how each rate limit category is used.
• Documented the reset_authentication_attempt_count command for when users lock themselves out.
• Documented the full S3 bucket policy for avatar and uploads buckets.
• Clarified what the --email value passed to the installer will be used for.
• Hid harmless “non-existent database” warnings during initial installation.
• Forced a known locale when upgrading PostgreSQL, which avoids errors when using some terminal applications.
• Verified that PostgreSQL was running after upgrading it, in case a previous try at an upgrade left it stopped.
• Updated custom emoji migration 0376 to be a single SQL statement, and no longer crash when no active owners were found.
• Replaced transifex-client internationalization library with new transifex-cli.
• Began respecting proxy settings when installing shellcheck and shfmt tools.
• Fixed the invitation code to signal a user data validation error, and not a server error, if an invalid “invite as” value was given.
• Renamed internal exceptions to end with Error.