Rocket.Chat 3.17.0 is here with many new exciting features and improvements. To give you a clearer view of what’s new, we listed the major updates about Team Collaboration, Omnichannel Customer Engagament & Marketplace – check it out below!

Secure messaging apps have always been highly valued among their consumers – but the security ladder keeps going higher and higher. The technology is advancing at a high speed, and organizations are trying to ensure the strictest security standards for messaging apps their employees use. Namely, ever since the abrupt switch to a remote work environment in 2020, companies are seeing a rise in cybersecurity breaches.

Efficient team communication is the prerequisite for collaboration, which in turn ensures high productivity and innovative thinking. In other words, team communication is at the core of a competitive business. However, the way teams communicate has profoundly changed. Long gone are the days of casual office talks and counting on everyone to be on-site every day 9 to 5.

Nowadays, it seems like everybody is talking about hybrid work. Companies are redesigning their work policies and contemplating the best ways to combine advantages of coming to the office and working from home. Ever since the pandemic abruptly entered our work lives, organizations realized that it’s possible to have employees working remotely. The hype around hybrid working models is real. However, not everybody is convinced that it is a good way forward.

Digital workplaces are no longer a thing of the future. Although many companies were already on the track to go digital, pandemic has accelerated this process. In 2020, Gartner’s research revealed that 82% of company leaders planned to incorporate remote work into their policies well after the pandemic. However, switching to completely remote or hybrid workplaces has a prerequisite: building and maintaining strong digital workplaces.

Effective team collaboration. Seems simple enough, right? You just need a group of people that get together, divide tasks among themselves, and – voila! Or is it just a bit more complicated than that.. 🤔 The reality is that teams consist of different people with different characters, experiences, and knowledge. Effective team collaboration was never easy to achieve – and this mission has grown even harder since remote work abruptly became a reality for many.

In today’s fast-paced world, companies must be able to provide support where their customers are. With over 187 million daily active users, Twitter is undoubtedly one of the social media channels where companies must be present and available. To help businesses offer a direct communication line with Twitter users, we’re glad to introduce Rocket.Chat’s new Twitter integration.

We’re over the moon! Rocket.Chat was selected as the winner of the Team Messaging Solution of the Year by RemoteTech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technology, and products in the global remote work technology market.

We are proud to announce that Rocket.Chat has been named a Category Leader for Instant Messaging and Chat Software by GetApp, a Gartner company, the second consecutive year it has received this recognition. Rocket.Chat placed No. 10 in the category, out of hundreds of products reviewed.

We think docker and container technologies are great and are here to stay. However, there are concerns about Docker Hub (hub.docker.com) and we want to make sure that if anything happens we can continue to provide docker images seamlessly. Additionally Docker Hub provides us with very limited information on pulls and we would like to understand more about how images are consumed so we can provide a better service.