Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

Rocket.Chat 8.5: Intelligent Search improvements and full accessibility conformance

Intelligent Search finds messages by meaning across your entire workspace, with filters that work in air-gapped environments, indexing that scales with message volume, and admin controls that keep results precise and trustworthy. Rocket.Chat now fully conforms to WCAG 2.1 Level AA across web, iOS, and Android, independently verified by two external auditors and satisfying Section 508, the European Accessibility Act, BITV 2.0, and EN 301 549.

Introducing the new AI Project Wizard: faster, smarter, and built around your feedback

Project setup is one of those tasks that everyone knows is important, but nobody enjoys doing. With the new version of the AI Project Wizard, your team can turn client briefs into full-fledged projects within seconds. Thanks to new improvements based on your feedback (including ready-to-use task lists and better syncing with documents), project planning will feel less like administration and more like acceleration.

Introducing Cursor in Jira

Starting today, Jira teams can assign work directly to Cursor, where a cloud agent will pick it up and begin working. You can steer agents directly from Jira, your IDE, or Cursor on the web. When Cursor needs input or is ready for review, it will notify you in Jira. When it opens a pull request, it will be automatically linked back to Jira.

Zulip 12.0: Organized chat for distributed teams

We’re excited to announce the release of Zulip Server 12.0, containing hundreds of new features and bug fixes: end-to-end encryption for mobile push notifications, a major upgrade for Docker, configurable image previews, and much more! Almost 5,500 new commits have been merged across the project since the 11.0 release in August 2025. Zulip is an organized team chat application ideal for both live and asynchronous communication.

Rocket.Chat v8.3: Everything your teams need, inside your secure perimeter

Your teams are operating in environments where leaving the approved platform is not an option. v8.3 makes sure they never have to. Federation is now production-ready, built and tested for cross-agency operations at scale. Screen sharing is now native to voice calls, keeping every conversation inside the secure perimeter. This is what mission-critical build standards look like in practice. When you build a secure environment, you account for every risk you can see.

The New Wire Integrations SDK: A New Foundation for Secure Collaboration Ecosystems

Modern collaboration software has evolved along two primary architectural paths. On one side are mainstream collaboration platforms that prioritize extensibility and integration but rely on centralized trust models. On the other are secure messaging applications that implement end-to-end encryption (E2EE), typically designed as closed communication systems rather than extensible development platforms.

M-Files Launches New AI Capabilities for Microsoft 365 Copilot

M-Files, a global provider of document management solutions, has launched new AI capabilities for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot Agent Builder to help organizations generate more accurate, permission-aware outputs using context-enriched enterprise content. The updates build on M-Files' partnership with Microsoft and enable customers to access M-Files content natively within Microsoft 365, while benefiting from its context-first document management approach.

From Secure Messaging to Secure Workspace: Meet Wire Drive

Wire Drive, now available on Wire Cloud, brings integrated file management and real-time document collaboration to Wire Messenger. It reduces app-switching, boosts team productivity, and simplifies access control—directly within the context of secure group messaging and conferencing.

Coming soon: AI Teammates, your new personal productivity partners

What if every person on your team had someone who helped them stay organized, stay ahead, and stay focused, without the extra hand-holding and endless questions? And more than that, what if that someone already understood your clients, your deadlines, your tasks, your workload… and didn’t just advise you, but actually helped you get things done? We're giving you a peek behind the curtain, because in just a few more weeks, all of this will be possible in Teamwork.com.

Product Roundup: What's new in Rocket.Chat 7.13

7.13 is a quiet release on the surface but a heavy one under the hood. It is the kind of release that makes everything feel more secure even before you notice what changed. → We hardened encryption, sharpened call workflows, tightened governance for federated comms, and set the groundwork for post-quantum security. If you care about clarity, control, or cryptographic durability, this is the version you will want to update to.