Zulip 12.0 Released

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 6:32 PM UTC

tabbott wrote: post #10

benatkin wrote: post #2

With what Google is doing with Android sideloading, I'm not sure Google is a good partner for open source projects. As it says in the blog post, Zulip has a nice history with Google Summer of Code, but it might be good to let this be the last year. Zulip currently supports sideloading. https://zulip.com/apps/android https://github.com/zulip/zulip-flutter#get-the-app That could get awkward later on. Though I guess if…

We can and should advocate for preserving sideloading. But boycotting a wonderful public-benefit program that Google has funded for 20 years over this sort of product policy issue seems crazy to me. Sure, GSoC does improve Google's brand. But Google Summer of Code is one of the most effective charitable programs I've seen from any large corporation. And I think it's very telling that nobody else does anything like it…

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Post by e12e » Fri, May 01, 2026, 3:33 PM UTC

e12e wrote: post #8

reacharavindh wrote: post #5

I tried to use Zulip as _the_ interface for my personal AI assistant because its topic based memory model fits nicely for a personal assistant. But, the iOS app was barely useful to use daily. It lacked even basic features like the ability to create a topic/channel. I could not believe it would be the case and to my surprise, it was.. I have moved on to choose Rocket.chat for my needs. Choosing to implement E2E notif…

> It lacked even basic features like the ability to create a topic/channel. Pretty sure you can define a new topic from all clients. On mobile you currently need to use the web interface to create a channel. I don't know why using an agent would need multiple channels - but sounds like one solution would be have the agent create channels via the API?

Fwiw docs on channel creation being limited on mobile:

https://zulip.com/help/create-channels#how-to-create-a-chann...

Docs on topics creation being supported on mobile:

https://zulip.com/help/introduction-to-topics#how-to-start-a...

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