v27.189

Highlights for users

• Fixed a bug where reacting to a message with 🎉 would sometimes fail. (#5430)

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

Highlights for developers

• Upgraded to React Native v0.67! (#5232)
• Removed the brittle needsInitialFetch subsystem. (PR #5300)
• Resolved issues: #5427, #5430, #5232

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v27.188

Highlights for users, vs. v27.186 (last prod release)

• Users' custom profile fields are now shown in the profile view. These can include pronouns, social-media usernames, job titles, etc. (#2900)
• Support for a new display setting, to be released in Zulip Server 6: "Display names of reacting users when few users have reacted to a message." (#5348)

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

Highlights for users, vs. v27.187 (last beta release)

• Fixed a regression in v27.187 that prevented the app from working with Zulip Server versions before 2.1. (Note that those versions are officially unsupported. Affected users should still get their server upgraded.) (#5418)
• Support for a new display setting, to be released in Zulip Server 6: "Display names of reacting users when few users have reacted to a message." (#5348)

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

Highlights for developers

• Fixed a flake in waitingPeriodThreshold tests. (#5404)
• Fixed a flake in message-list-diffing tests. (#5414)
• Removed most definitions in navActions.js, to help reduce our use of the deprecated NavigationService approach. (#4417)
• Replaced our uses of Flow's $PropertyType and $ElementType with the new, more concise index-access syntax. (PR #5406)
• We're now running the latest versions of ESLint and Prettier. (PR #5393)
• Resolved issues: #5348, #5418, #4139, #5414, #5404, #4417, PR #5393, #4254

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v27.187

Highlights for users

• Users' custom profile fields are now shown in the profile view. These can include pronouns, social-media usernames, job titles, etc. (#2900)

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

Highlights for developers

• Upgraded to React Native v0.66! (#5231)
• We now maintain React Navigation's type definitions as patched translations of the TypeScript definitions upstream, using TsFlower. (#5391)
• Synced Message type with the API doc at FL 132. (#5401)
• Resolved issues: #2900, #5391, #5231

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v27.186

Highlights for users, vs. v27.183 (last prod release)

• Support for creating web-public streams. (#5250)
• We now offer the app in Mongolian. Many thanks to our kind volunteer translators!
• In the Home tab, topics with unread @-mentions are now highlighted with "@". (#4857)
• When searching for an emoji, you can now separate words with spaces, rather than having to type underscores. (#4636)

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

Highlights for users, vs v27.185 (last beta)

• (Android) Fixed a bug where the app sometimes wouldn't start. (#5383)

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

Highlights for developers, vs. v27.185

• Migrated to use servers' new user_settings object when possible. (#4933)

• Improved various types to better model the server API. (PRs #5373, #5374, #5376, #5379, #5384, #5386, #5388)

• Resolved issues: #5250, #5386, #4658, #5383, #4933, #5199

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v27.185

Highlights for users, vs. v27.183 (last prod release)

• In the Home tab, topics with unread @-mentions are now highlighted with "@". (#4857)
• When searching for an emoji, you can now separate words with spaces, rather than having to type underscores. (#4636)

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

Highlights for users, vs v27.184 (last beta)

• In the Home tab, topics with unread @-mentions are now highlighted with "@". (#4857)
• When searching for an emoji, you can now separate words with spaces, rather than having to type underscores. (#4636)

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

Highlights for developers, vs. v27.184

• Fixed an incompatibility between React Navigation 5 and React Native v0.65. We'd taken the RN 65 upgrade in v27.184, the previous release, which was beta-only. (#5368)

• Our development environment, and CI, now use Node v16. (#4263)

• Synced API types with the API doc at FL 121: api.createStream and api.updateStream (#5341); ApiResponseServerSettings, InitialDataRealm, RealmDataForUpdate (#5349, #5354); StreamUpdateEvent (#5346); User and CrossRealmBot (#5351).

• RootErrorBoundary will now send all of errorInfo to Sentry. (#5357)

• Resolved issues: #5368, #4636, #5166, #4263, #4857, #5347

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v27.184

Highlights for users

• The badge for unread @-mentions at the top of the Home tab now looks better. (#5278)

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

Highlights for developers

• Upgraded to React Native v0.65! See commit 72583b1 for how to resolve an expected error from CocoaPods when you run yarn. (#5230)

• Bumped to server-3.0 (a.k.a. server-2.2) the threshold for warning users of unsupported old servers. (PR #5334)

• Bumped @sentry/react-native to ^3.3.3 to fix an issue in the release process. (#5335)

• Resolved issues: #5185, #5230, #5278, PR #5334

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v27.183

Highlights for users

• Fixed a bug where you couldn't paste an org URL from the clipboard when logging in. (#5228)
• When choosing an emoji, popular ones now appear at the top of the list, including 🎉, 😄, and ❤️. (#4636)

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

Highlights for developers

• We now store persistent data in a sound way! (#4841)

• We now use typeahead.sort_emojis from @zulip/shared, for sorting emojis in the picker and autocomplete. (PR #5326, toward #4636)

• New setup for using custom icons in @zulip/shared. (#5307)

• Type coverage has increased to 98%. (#5323)

• ComposeBox is now a function component using React Hooks. (#5312)

• Resolved issues: #4841, #5228, PR #5312, #5307, PR #5310

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v27.182

Highlights for users

• Support for new Zulip Server 5.0 features:
  • You can now set your status with an emoji. (#4925)
  • You can now mark a topic as resolved. (#5202)
• New options "Copy link to topic" and "Copy link to stream" when you long-press on a topic or stream. (#4863, #5154)

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

Highlights for developers

• (Android) Our GitHub release now has a separate APK for each ABI, instead of one bigger APK. (#5295)
• Server-version logging tags are now set before reducers handle REGISTER_COMPLETE. (PR #5261)
• Sentry will now split "Unhandled Zulip API event type" into separate issues per event type. (PR #5243)
• Breadcrumbs are now sent to Sentry with the type and op of Zulip events: https://zulip.com/api/get-events (PR #5239)
• For VS Code users, we now properly specify what auto-formatter the project uses. (PR #5285)
• We've finished switching from stream names to stable IDs for identifying streams, as far as server support allows. (#3918)
• No more runtime import cycles, enforced with linting. (PR #5266)
• Updated to v0.0.9 of @zulip/shared. (#5292)
• Resolved issues: #3710, #5295, PR #5285, #5022, #4925, #5202, #5255, #5154, #4863, #3918, #5251, #2688, PR #5266, PR #5261, PR #5258, PR #5253, #3767, #5014, PR #5243, PR #5239

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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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