Three years after launching, there are over 1,000 open source projects on GitHub that integrate with Mattermost. Our contributors have also added hundreds of amazing features to Mattermost. We’re reflecting on how we got here—and what we’re doing next to build an even stronger community for our contributors.

After HipChat’s end-of-life announcement, Mattermost began working with the Atlassian community to develop a migration path to Mattermost as a private cloud alternative to HipChat and Slack. We’re excited to announce a new community of Atlassian partners that can help HipChat customers maintain and expand their productivity by moving to a self-hosted Mattermost solution.

Mattermost 5.1 has new features that will help your team accomplish even more: GIF selector – express yourself more clearly by adding the perfect GIFs for the occasion without leaving the Mattermost interface, Auto-linking plugin – link messages to other content automatically to increase productivity and empower workers to easily find information they need.

Gfycat is excited to announce our new integration with Mattermost that brings GIFs to workplace communication. Gfycat makes the Mattermost communication experience fun, visual and on-trend.

At Mattermost, we set out to build a platform that supports the world’s largest enterprises. To do that, Mattermost needs to be able to accommodate tens of thousands of simultaneous users, all of whom are using the platform in various ways at the same time.

Mattermost 5.0 has new features designed to improve productivity while enhancing security: Intercept and modify posts – customize Mattermost by creating plugins to automatically restrict, modify, censor and link posts, Advanced permissions – ensure everyone has the proper level of access with new system and team permissions schemes

(Editor’s note: This guest Mattermost Recipe was contributed by Brian Hopkins, a member of the Mattermost community.) Here’s the next installment of a new series of posts we’re doing on the Mattermost blog: Mattermost Recipes. The goal of these posts is to provide you with solutions to specific problems, as well as a discussion about the details of the solution and some tips about how to customize it to suit your needs perfectly.

We’ve officially released Mattermost 4.10 and there are several features we think you’ll like: Faster load times – enjoy a smoother experience thanks to significantly faster loading times during start up and after refresh. Convert channels to private – keep important discussions confidential by easily converting public channels into private channels.

Here’s the next installment of a new series of posts we’re doing on the Mattermost blog: Mattermost Recipes. The goal of these posts is to provide you with solutions to specific problems, as well as a discussion about the details of the solution and some tips about how to customize it to suit your needs perfectly.

Spring is in the air and we couldn’t be more excited to announce the release of Mattermost 4.9! Here are some highlights you and your team will love: Reclaim time and enjoy fewer distractions with muted channels, Display the names of colleagues whichever way helps you find and recognize them fastest by adjusting the teammate name display setting