Zulip Server 8.0 released, and new plans for self-hosted Zulip customers

[Tim Abbott]

We have two major announcements today:

Zulip Server 8.0 has been released, containing hundreds of new features and bug fixes. Check out the blog post for release highlights and other Zulip project news. Huge thanks to the hundreds of contributors who made this release possible!

We are also announcing new plans for self-hosted Zulip customers. Starting today, new self-hosted customers will no longer get unlimited free access to Zulip’s Mobile Push Notification Service. Organizations with more than 10 users will need to sign up for a plan in order to access the service. For current users of the service, unlimited free access will end on February 15, 2024. Registered Zulip server administrators will receive an email today explaining this change.

You can learn more about the plans, why we are making this change, and what it means for self-hosted Zulip organizations in today’s blog post. As always, we remain fully committed to Zulip’s 100% open-source model. Organizations that do not require technical support or services from us can freely install and use a complete version of Zulip.

-Tim Abbott, for the Zulip team

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[Tim Abbott]

We have published a new blog post following up on the new self-hosted plans announcement on Friday. 

The post describes a new Basic plan for self-hosted customers, a discount for the first year on a self-hosted plan, and why we’re making these changes.

-Tim Abbott, for the Zulip team