Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

This summer, 11 contributors completed the Google Summer of Code(GSoC) program with the Zulip development community. This was the 11th consecutive year that Zulip participated in GSoC; over 140 contributors have now completed one of our formal internship programs, primarily through Google Summer of Code and Outreachy. Our welcoming community is fully committed to helping bring up the next generation of open-source contributors from a wide range of backgrounds.

In May 2026, the Zulip open-source project and Kandra Labs announced the creation of the Zulip Foundation and that four core team members, including Zulip’s founder Tim Abbott, would step back from daily work at Kandra Labs. The Zulip Foundation had an impressive list of Board Members and Advisors lined up, and Kandra Labs had an Interim President (me, Kim Vandiver) in place to ensure continuity of leadership. So, how have things gone in the past 6 months? Really quite well.

Today marks a major transition for the Zulip open-source project and for Kandra Labs, the company behind it: I’m stepping back from full-time Zulip leadership to join Anthropic, alongside three senior team members, and we’re donating the company to a newly created, independent, nonprofit Zulip Foundation. The new structure provides stability, a renewed commitment to our values, and opportunities for charitable fundraising to support our mission.

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.

Cross-posted from Atolio’s announcement. Atolio, the only fully self-hosted, AI-powered enterprise search platform designed for security-conscious organizations, is excited to announce it now offers a native connector for Zulip, the team chat platform that gives security-first organizations complete ownership of how, where, and by whom their conversations are stored and accessed.

Zulip organized team chat has now been an open-source project for 10 years! It’s incredible how wonderful a group of people this project has brought together — thoughtful, committed to excellence, and excited to teach and to learn. So, THANK YOU to everyone who has contributed to Zulip over the last decade: Most important of all, my wife Alya Abbott has been instrumental to Zulip becoming what it is today.

“What export options does Microsoft Teams have these days?” I wondered. I was rounding out the context for a new blog post about the barriers Slack puts up to exporting your message history, and accessing your own messages via the API. As it turns out, a documentation page Microsoft published in February 2025 proclaims: Finally! We could now build a Teams-to-Zulip import tool without having to string together disparate paid APIs.

We’re excited to announce the release of Zulip Server 11.0, containing hundreds of new features and bug fixes: message reminders, support for channels without topics, channel folders, and so much more! Over 3,300 new commits have been merged across the project since the 10.0 release in March. Zulip is an organized team chat application ideal for both live and asynchronous communication.

There’s a new camera app that you’ll just love! Here’s the FAQ for SnatchCam: Sounds crazy, right? The content you created being held hostage by the tool you used to create it — who’d agree to such a thing? Anyone who signs up for Slack, it turns out. In this post, we’ll explore how Slack’s policies treat the messages that you send in Slack just like the imaginary SnatchCam treats your photos.

Zulip’s next-generation app for Android and iOS is now our official mobile app! The new app, powered by Flutter, offers a sleek new design and a faster, smoother experience than the old app built on React Native. Over 2000 users have installed earlier versions of the new app since its public beta release last December. Starting this week, you’ll get the new app the next time your Zulip app is upgraded.