v27.232

Highlights for users

• (Android) Fixed a crash on Android 14+ when downloading an image from the lightbox screen. (#5903)
• Updated translations for Czech, Polish, and Russian. Thanks as always to our kind volunteer translators!

Highlights for developers

• We now handle user-deactivated events by removing the user from groups, as required for Zulip Server 10 (feature level 303). (#5899)

• Switched to a patched rn-fetch-blob to fix an Android 14+ crash. (#5903)

• (Android) Upgraded SoLoader, as prompted by a Google Play warning. (#5901)

• (Android build) Updated tools/checkout-keystore to work with modern sq. (PR #5896)

• (iOS build) Fix a build failure in the '[CP-User] Generate Specs' script that appeared when we started building RN from Git. (PR #5896)

• (iOS build) Updated CocoaPods from 1.15.2 to 1.16.2. (#5907)

• Updated rollup to 3.x, from the last 2.x. (PR #5894)

• Resolved issues: #5899, #5903

sha256sum -c <<EOF
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EOF

v27.231

Highlights for users

• (Android) Update various behavior on Android 14+ as required by Google Play. (#5877)
• We now offer the app in Greek. Also, updated translations for Arabic, Danish, German, Polish, and Portuguese (Portugal). Thanks as always to our kind volunteer translators!

Highlights for developers

• Bumped targetSdkVersion to 34, for extended deadline 2024-10-31. (#5877)
• We now build RN from source; see docs/howto/forked-rn.md. (PR #5892)
• Bumped some dependencies following alerts from dependabot. (PRs #5889, #5894)
• Fixed an incompatibility with Apple Silicon in ensure_coreutils. (PR #5890)
• (Android) Forced me.relex:photodraweeview at a later version (that's a dependency of react-native-photo-view) because the old one stopped being available on jcenter. (PR #5891)
• Resolved issues: #5877, PR #5890, PR #5891

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EOF

v27.230

Highlights for users

• Full support for image thumbnails, a feature of the upcoming Zulip Server 9.0 which should greatly reduce Zulip's network consumption on messages with images. (#5875)
• We now show an error message in more cases where a message can't be sent. (#5870)
• Updated translations for Bulgarian, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Chinese (China). Thanks as always to our kind volunteer translators!

Highlights for developers

• Resolved issues: #5875, #5870

sha256sum -c <<EOF
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EOF

v27.229

Highlights for users

• Support for topic permalinks, a feature coming up in Zulip Server 9.0. (#M5866)
• Updated translations for Arabic, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Persian, and Russian. Thanks as always to our kind volunteer translators!

Plus other fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.

Highlights for developers

• Updated CocoaPods to 1.15.2. (PR #5873)
• We now parse the /with/ operator in narrow links (topic permalinks). (#5866)
• Resolved issues: PR #5873, #5866

sha256sum -c <<EOF
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EOF

v27.228

Highlights for users, vs. v27.225 (last prod release)

• Streams are now called channels, if your server is version 9.0+. (#5827)
• Fixed a bug where LaTeX was not quoted properly in the "Quote and reply" option. (#5849)
• Fixed a bug where long-pressing an invalid link would crash the app. (#5854)
• Updated translations for Bulgarian, German, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Ukrainian. Thanks as always to our kind volunteer translators!

Plus other fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.

Highlights for users, vs. v27.227 (last beta release)

• Fixed a crash on login, which slipped through in the UI-string "channel" rename. (PR #5865)
• Updated translations for Bulgarian, Spanish, and Turkish. Thanks as always to our kind volunteer translators!

Highlights for developers, vs. v27.227

• Fixed a crash on login, which slipped through in the UI-string "channel" rename. (PR #5865)

• The UI-string "channel" terminology is now correctly conditioned on FL >=255, not >255. (PR #5864)

• Resolved issues: PR #5865, PR #5864

sha256sum -c <<EOF
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v27.227

Highlights for users, vs. v27.225 (last prod release)

• Streams are now called channels, if your server is version 9.0+. (#5827)
• Fixed a bug where LaTeX was not quoted properly in the "Quote and reply" option. (#5849)
• Fixed a bug where long-pressing an invalid link would crash the app. (#5854)
• Updated translations for Bulgarian, German, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, and Ukrainian. Thanks as always to our kind volunteer translators!

Plus other fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.

Highlights for developers

• Added a "privacy manifest". #5847

• Ran yarn upgrade. (PR #5850)

• Disabled Flipper on iOS. (PR #5848)

• We now recognize the "channel" operator in narrow links. (#5860)

• Resolved issues: #5854, #5849, #5832, #5860, PR #5843

sha256sum -c <<EOF
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EOF

v27.225

Highlights for users, vs. v27.223 (last prod release)

• We now offer the app in Gujarati. Also, updated translations for Italian, Turkish, and Chinese (Taiwan). Thanks as always to our kind volunteer translators!

Plus other fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.

Highlights for users, vs. v27.224

• (Android) Fixed a crash on startup. (PR #5824)

Highlights for developers, vs. v27.224

• (Android) Updated jsBundleDirRelease for AGP 7.1+, fixing crash on startup (PR #5824)

• Resolved issues: PR #5824

sha256sum -c <<EOF
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EOF

v27.224

This was an alpha-only release.

Highlights for users

• We now offer the app in Gujarati. Also, updated translations for Italian, Turkish, and Chinese (Taiwan). Thanks as always to our kind volunteer translators!

Plus other fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.

Highlights for developers

• We now show the test-notification button when the server is FL 234+ instead of 217+. (PR #5819)

• Bumped the Android Gradle Plugin from 7.0.4 to 7.2.2. (PR #5818)

• Ran yarn upgrade. (PRs #5818, #5823)

• Resolved issues: PR #5823, PR #5819, PR #5818

sha256sum -c <<EOF
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v27.223

Highlights for users

• Updated translations for Belarusian, German, and Russian. Thanks as always to our kind volunteer translators!

Plus other fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.

Highlights for developers

• Updated CocoaPods to 1.13.0.

• We now warn when the realm's push-notifications plan will be expiring soon. (PRs #5812 and #5814)

• Resolved issues: PR #5814, PR #5812

sha256sum -c <<EOF
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v27.222

Highlights for users

• We now show a "(guest)" indicator on guest users' names, unless your organization is running Zulip Server 8.0+ and has turned the indicator off: https://zulip.com/help/guest-users . (#5804)

Plus other fixes and improvements for your Zulip experience.

Highlights for developers

• Resolved issues: #5804, #5785, #5805

sha256sum -c <<EOF
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