Mattermost 5.13 ships with several platform and mobile improvements designed to help your team work better together. Try these new features by downloading Mattermost 5.13 today. Since it includes security updates, upgrading is recommended.

Recently, a Mattermost customer needed a way to provide Mattermost access to team members of newly acquired business entities. After reviewing the security posture of the companies they acquired, they realized they all had different policies, tools, and systems and needed to bring them all up to the same standards and create an easy to manage multi-authentication solution. The solution they implemented gave the organization a singular login and multi-factor authentication service.

No matter what tools your team uses, more effective collaboration results from sharing information and context, being able to react quickly, and automating repetitive processes. Development teams move faster when they can consolidate information in one central hub and can reduce context switching by switching less between different tools.

For years, high-trust organizations relied on Hipchat for team messaging because—unlike many popular messaging platforms—it could be hosted on-premise or in a private cloud. In July 2018, however, they found out that Hipchat would be decommissioned this year. In search of a secure messaging solution to replace Hipchat, many of these companies have migrated to Mattermost, the open source messaging platform designed for DevOps teams.