The Mattermost team is actively working on our next major product release: Mattermost v6.0 is shipping this fall. That’s right around the corner! In advance of the release, we’d like to communicate some specifics on select features being promoted from beta to generally available and upcoming deprecations. We would also like to share a glimpse of what’s coming.

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.

Automation has become a business imperative. With the demand to cut down on costs and do more with less, businesses are obviously turning to automate simple repetitive tasks. Be it collecting lead data or sending out an onboarding campaign or improving team productivity – automation has a key role in every business domain. Infact, a recent study has revealed that almost 44% of businesses are looking to increase their tech spend and replace outdated technologies.

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.

This is the fourth installment in a series of articles on Mattermost plugins. First, we talked about how to set up your developer environment. We then examined the structure of server-side and web app plugins before walking through how to build a server-side plugin in Mattermost. In this piece, we’ll explore how to create web app plugins. The web app is written in JavaScript. It uses Redux, and you can write your plugin in Typescript as well. In this article, we’ll use JavaScript.

This is a story of competing with one of the biggest names in the industry of communication tools. This is a story of how we launched Chanty, an easy-to-use team collaboration tool. And finally, this is a story of numerous startup challenges we’ve solved. I believe this story deserves your attention. Imagine a bootstrapped startup of a few fellows that is going against a SaaS giant. Add to this picture the fact that literally hundreds of apps are born in this industry each year.

Mattermost v5.36 is generally available today. This release includes the following new features (see changelog for more details): Enterprise Edition All Editions