Riot Web 1.5 is out now, landing our brand new message composer with improved accessibility, increased language compatibilty and enhanced stability!

Technological advancements have the uncanny strength of pushing over top-performing apps down the hill. Innovation brings in better utilities for the benefit of the user community. Skype seems to be weathering that for quite some time before being on the way out, almost.

You may have noticed a lot of recent changes with the mobile apps. Rocket.Chat has been maintaining two native versions of the mobile app, one for Android and one for iOS. This has proved to be quite problematic and we had to split our resources which is inefficient. We therefore made the decision to build a new app based on a common framework. After months of deliberation, testing, and lots of community help, we have finally decided to move to the proven React Native framework.

Exciting news for Riot users today as New Vector (the company set up by the team behind Matrix & Riot to keep development going) has raised an additional $8.5M of funding in order to make Riot even better!

Riot Web 1.4.0 is out today (with Android and iOS to follow shortly), landing a range of enhancements and powerful new features to make sure you’re always informed and in control of how, when, where and why your data is processed. As you probably already know, Riot runs atop Matrix and Matrix is a decentralised, federated instant messaging network.

Rocket.Chat has always tried to be smart when sending mobile notifications. We don’t want to disturb you with useless notifications, but we understand this is confusing to our users. Users expect notifications and think there are bugs when none are actually being sent. We have created a diagram to show the current conditions that cause Rocket.Chat to send a notification.

We released Zulip Server 2.0.6 today. This is a bug fix release, containing several cherry-picked changes since Zulip 2.0.5.