PALO ALTO, CA, Feb. 5, 2019 (GlobeNewsWire) — Mattermost, the fastest growing messaging platform for engineering teams at large organizations, today announced that it has closed a $20 million series A funding round led by Redpoint Ventures with participation by S28 Capital and Y Combinator. In just a few years, Mattermost has exploded in popularity as an open source messaging platform, with over 10,000 server downloads every month and a vibrant community of contributors.

Hi everyone, I am excited to announce that Mattermost has raised a $20 million Series A round led by Redpoint Ventures, with participation from S28 Capital and Y Combinator. Mattermost’s mission is to make the world safer and more productive through open source software.

After closing a $20 million Series A round, Mattermost is skyrocketing in popularity as a secure, open source Slack alternative for enterprise DevOps and IT. High-trust teams are adopting it for messaging to overcome some of the biggest collaboration challenges today.

We are releasing a recommended security update via Mattermost Team Edition 5.7.1, 5.6.4, 5.5.3 and 4.10.6 (ESR) and Mattermost Enterprise Edition 5.7.1, 5.6.4, 5.5.3 and 4.10.6 (ESR). This security update addresses a high-level vulnerability discovered during a security research review by Rohitesh Gupta.

At Mattermost, we aim to develop a product that is simple to deploy and manage. To this end, we recently examined Kubernetes, today’s most popular orchestration platform that uses containers.

Happy New Year! Mattermost 5.7 includes a number of user experience improvements designed to increase team productivity. Try these new features by downloading Mattermost 5.7 today. Since it includes security updates, upgrading is recommended.

Modern IT organizations are increasingly using ChatOps to operate critical business systems and move forward faster. ChatOps is a new way of working that brings people, files, conversations and tools (via commands) together on a central enterprise messaging workspace, accelerating decision making and innovation while increasing agility.

Mattermost dot release 5.6.1 for Team Edition (TE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) is now available for download. If your deployment is affected by issues this dot release fixes, upgrading is recommended. Otherwise, you can upgrade to the next monthly release which also includes these fixes.

Here’s the next installment in our Mattermost Recipes series. The goal of these posts is to provide you with a solution to a specific problem, a discussion about the details of the solution and some tips about how to customize it to suit your needs perfectly. If there’s a Recipe you want us to cook up in the future, drop us a line on our forum.

Pryvit! Mattermost 5.6 is filled with new features designed to increase team productivity: