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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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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