Here’s the next installment in our Mattermost Recipes series. 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.

Mattermost 5.2 has new features designed to improve team productivity.

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.