Mattermost v1.2: Easier Onboarding, Enhanced Search, Hubot, Cloud Foundry, Code Themes

With Mattermost v1.2.1, an open source Slack-alternative, now offers easier onboarding for new users, easier to search, and easier to connect with external applications. 

Mattermost v1.2.1: Easy Onboarding, Enhanced Search, Community Applications

You can install Mattermost v1.2.1 today and view source code here (if you like what you see, please give us a star?).

Easy Onboarding

Mattermost now offers new users an optional tutorial to show new users how to use messages, channels, and search as well as how to access different system settings.

Optional tutorial trains new users how to discover and use Mattermost features

Feedback from early deployments is that end users have different levels of familiarity with messaging tools. In-app help was needed to accelerate adoption from new users, so it’s now included.

We’ve also made managing Mattermost deployments easier for IT admins past the install stage, with an improved Upgrade Guide, Trouble Shooting Guide, and Administrator’s Guide.

Cloud Foundry BOSH release for Mattermost deploys the system on Azure, AWS, vSphere, GCE and OpenStack

The community is also helping expand Mattermost compatibility, and last week a new Cloud Foundry BOSH release for Mattermost became available to deploy the system across Azure, AWS, vSphere, and GCE (thanks to Dr Nic!).

Enhanced Search

Full text search is upgraded with in-context help and advanced search modifiers to filter searches across channels and users.

Enhanced search offers in-context help, and easy-to-use filters for searching in channels and from users

Users can now also search through lists of hundreds of team members by username or real name in the Direct Messages interface, to quickly find whoever they need to reach.

Community Applications

Outgoing webhooks are now available to connect with a host of open source applications created for Mattermost, including Hubot for Mattermost and the Matterbridge IRC bridge.

Hubot lets Mattermost users interact with a wide array of 3rd party automation and tools

Other recent projects include:

• RSS and Atom Feed Integration Service for Mattermost
• Jenkins Plugin for Mattermost
• Mattermost Publisher for Jenkins Job Builder
• Matterircd – IRC server for Mattermost
• Mattertee – tee Command for Mattermost
• Matterfront – native client for Windows, OS X and Linux
• Electron-Mattermost – native client for Windows and OS X (pre-packaged binaries
• Chrome Web App for Mattermost – native client in Chrome Web App

Please visit their respective pages to try them out–and if you like what you see, please give them a star!

If you’d like to share a new application or integration, mail us at [email protected] or tweet to us at @MattermostHQ and we can link to your integration from www.mattermost.org/community-applications/.

Thanks to all the authors of our community applications, and thanks also to all our contributors this month. Among many wonderful new features, we’d like to mention in particular new syntax highlighting support for markdown code blocks, including the ability for users to select code theme colors, like Monokai, GitHub and Solarize Light and Dark.

Hugely grateful to all our contributors for v1.2, in no particular order:

• florianorben
• trashcan
• girishso
• apaatsio
• jlebleu
• stasvovk
• mcmillhj
• sharms
• jvasallo
• layzerar
• optimistiks
• Tsynapse
• vinnymac
• yuvipanda
• toyorg

We’re delighted to share these new features with you and look forward to your questions, comments, and ideas. Please join us on our forum to discuss.