From setting up new hires with everything they need to get to work to troubleshooting technical difficulties, IT teams often field the same kinds of requests over and over. And while each request might feel like a small task, collectively they can add up to a huge time sink in the long run.

Mattermost v6.5 is generally available today and includes the following new features (see changelog for more details).

Rollbar is adopting the updated Oauth 2.0 flow created by Slack. Slack has revised their access tokens and now allows the Rollbar Slack bot to have its own credentials. This replaces the use of member’s credentials.

A common denominator that Mattermost and most corporate applications share is the challenge users can face in successfully setting up a self-hosted instance in their own cloud account. Even with cloud-specific documentation, there’s almost always a hard requirement of understanding said documentation, resolving any errors encountered along the way, and maintaining the application.

Welcome to the 7th edition of Open Source Matters: our regular publication about the latest happenings in open source! Let’s dive into the news.

Mattermost v6.4 is generally available today and includes the following new features (see changelog for more details).