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Mattermost and Jitsi launch a joint hackathon

Jason BlaisSeptember 24, 2020

Hacking from home: Thriving in a remote environment With the acceleration of remote work due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there’s even more urgency for teams to adapt to solutions that give them the ability to work remotely and asynchronously in distributed environments. A Gartner Survey from July 2020 revealed that 82% of company leaders plan …

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Mattermost integrations: Sending and receiving data with outgoing webhooks

Tom De MoorSeptember 22, 2020

Outgoing webhooks are the easiest way to send a request or data to another program from a public channel (Originally published at controlaltdeliet.be) In a previous article, you learned how to receive data from an external source. In this article, you learn how to send a request or data to an external source using outgoing webhooks. As …

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Improving performance (and more) through load testing

Claudio CostaSeptember 17, 2020

Have you ever wondered how many active users your application can handle at the same time? If so, you’re not alone. Here at Mattermost, we’re building a highly concurrent messaging platform for team collaboration that needs to potentially serve up to several thousands of users simultaneously. While standard functional testing (e.g., unit tests) is critical …

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Mattermost Release v5.27 is now available

Lindsay BrockSeptember 16, 2020

The new quality release offers Mattermost Omnibus for easy installation and maintenance of Mattermost and a one-click experience in Team Edition to access Mattermost Enterprise features. Mattermost Release v5.27 is generally available today. The new quality release offers many bug fixes for increased stability, as well as Mattermost Omnibus — a new method for installing …

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Mattermost joins Red Hat, GitHub and Google in the CVE Program to maintain an international, open data registry of security vulnerabilities

Ashley DotterweichSeptember 15, 2020

Mattermost is joining Red Hat, Google, and GitHub and over 130 other leading technology organizations authorized to be a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Numbering Authority (CNA) by the CVE Program. The world’s most privacy-conscious enterprises and governments rely on Mattermost’s self-hosted, open source collaboration platform to keep their most vital communications safe and sovereign. …

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Mattermost integrations: Sending alerts to a channel with an incoming webhook

Tom De MoorSeptember 10, 2020

Incoming webhooks are the easiest way to let other programs send messages to Mattermost (Originally published at controlaltdieliet.be) Last week, we shared an introduction on how to use incoming webhooks to integrate with Mattermost. Here’s an example of how to use them in action. Monitoring refrigerator temperatures Our fridges need to retain a constant temperature. When …

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High-trust collaboration: Real-world lessons from implementing Mattermost at scale

Ashley DotterweichSeptember 9, 2020

Managing the flow of information within an organization can be a daunting task even for small teams. But for large corporations, creating a communication and collaboration workflow to meet the needs of thousands of users—while meeting their standards for security and compliance—can be a huge challenge. So what does it take to maintain secure communication …

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Mattermost 5.25.5 (ESR) and 5.26.2 released

Amy BlaisSeptember 8, 2020

Mattermost dot release 5.25.5 (ESR) and 5.26.2 for Team Edition (TE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) is now available for download. This dot release forcefully disables the SAML Setting “Use Improved SAML Library (Beta)” as we have identified some issues in this feature. Please follow these instructions for enabling SAML using the feature-equivalent xmlsec1 utility. If …

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