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Archive for the ‘Releases’ Category
Set your room’s topic using the API
There’s a new rooms/topic method in our HTTP API that allows you to change a room’s topic. Use it to display important metrics, server health, who’s on-call, how many open support tickets you have, when your next release is, or whatever else you’d find helpful.
The hipchat Ruby gem and PHP library are already updated to support this new method. Enjoy!
Prettier and more helpful notification emails
We just flipped the switch on some improvements to our notification emails that we’ve been testing internally for a few weeks. Now, whenever you get an @mention notification email it will include other recent messages and be styled just like it is in our apps.
1-1 message notification emails also use this new style but do not include previous messages. We’re working to group them intelligently to cut down on the number of emails you get.
Enjoy!
iOS App Update – Version 1.8
We’re excited to release version 1.8 of our iOS app to the App Store. Our focus this round was on performance improvements (especially for larger groups). The previous app was painfully slow for any group that had more than a hundred users or so and we hope this update helps bring it more on par with the performance enjoyed by much smaller groups. Release notes below:
- Improvement: Support for iPhone 5
- Improvement: Greatly enhanced performance during app load and reconnection
- Improvement: Notifications will be triggered as soon as the app is put in the background
- Improvement: The lobby will now show the search bar by default (like the Contact app now does)
- Improvement: Display active chats tab by default
- Improvement: Active chats list will now mimic the order show in the desktop and web clients
- Bug fix: Correctly focus chats when opening the app from a push notification
Download it and let us know what you think! Comments and suggestions are welcome as always – just head on over to our help site.
If you’re interested in learning more about the details of how we went about making performance gains, check out our blog post about it.
iOS App Update – Version 1.7
Apple recently approved version 1.7 of our iOS app, which is now live in the App Store. This release is focused on fixing some annoying bugs and adding some helpful functionality in the wake of our change to how @mentions work:
- Colored system messages
- Support for new @mention names
- Tap names in chat to insert @mentions
- @mention autocomplete
- Tweaks to improve avoid bugs loading previous history / updating current history.
- Correctly focus chat when opening via notification when app is not running
- Prevent loading history when the app is reconnecting
- Fix file uploads to non-US based file servers
- Better link detection (enable detection of paired parentheses in links)
Try it out! Let us know if you have any feedback (support@hipchat.com). Our next update will be focused on improving app performance, which we know is a big problem for users in our larger groups. Stay tuned for more updates.