{"id":17124,"date":"2018-10-10T06:47:39","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T13:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/?p=17124"},"modified":"2023-06-05T16:07:17","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T14:07:17","slug":"exo-platform-v5-1-released-revamped-chat-push-notifications-other-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/exo-platform-v5-1-released-revamped-chat-push-notifications-other-improvements\/","title":{"rendered":"eXo Platform 5.1 Released: Revamped Chat with Push Notifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are excited to announce the immediate availability of <strong>eXo Platform<\/strong>\u2019s new version 5.1. This release improves upon its predecessor version 5.0 with a set of changes focusing on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/?utm_source=BlogEn&amp;utm_medium=Blog&amp;utm_campaign=Content&amp;utm_content=link\">real-time collaboration<\/a> design, mobility, <strong>task management<\/strong> as well as enterprise integration and performance.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>So What\u2019s New?<\/h2>\n<p>For those of you in a hurry or just skimming through this announcement, the improvements brought by this new version are summarized below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A revamped design of the <strong>Chat module<\/strong> interface for a better user experience,<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Native mobile push notifications for the <strong>eXo mobile app<\/strong> (available for <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/exo\/id410476273?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iOS<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=org.exoplatform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Android<\/a>),<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ability for users to leave a <strong>chat room<\/strong> that they no longer wish to be members in,<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fine-grained permissions in the Tasks app (assignable <i>participant<\/i>, <i>manager<\/i>, <i>reporter <\/i>and <i>observer <\/i>roles),<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A smarter user data integration, simplified cache administration, improved importing of multi-source Users\/Groups\/Roles, upgrade to JBoss EAP 7.1,<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Several bug fixes and improvements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-17125 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www-upgrade.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"582\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1.png 800w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1-768x415.png 768w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1-720x389.png 720w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1-500x270.png 500w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1-360x194.png 360w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1-200x108.png 200w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1-100x54.png 100w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1-56x30.png 56w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/product-offer\/?utm_source=BlogEn&amp;utm_medium=Blog&amp;utm_campaign=Content&amp;utm_content=link\">Enterprise Edition<\/a> is being shipped to customers starting today based on this new version and a free trial can be downloaded <a href=\"https:\/\/community.exoplatform.com\/portal\/intranet\/downloads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. Members of our public online community site \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/community.exoplatform.com\/portal\/intranet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eXo Tribe<\/a>\u201d could already spot some of its improvements as that site has been running on this new platform version.<\/p>\n<p>For the Enterprise distribution, about 22,000 manual and automated tests have been executed in this version on all of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/terms-conditions\/supported-environments.pdf\">supported enterprise environments<\/a> and around 160 detected defects were corrected.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s look at what\u2019s inside some of the key noteworthy updates in this new version:<\/p>\n<h2>New Design for the Chat Module<\/h2>\n<p>Those familiar with eXo Platform know that it ships with a 1:1 and team chat tool that is conveniently integrated to the platform\u2019s key applications to facilitate <strong>collaboration<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In this new version, we <a href=\"https:\/\/www-upgrade.exoplatform.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/09\/platform-5-1-sneak-peek-new-design-and-improvements-for-chat-exo-platform\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">redesigned this app<\/a> and introduced a beautiful new interface. It\u2019s now more flat, clean and seeks to offer a more intuitive user experience.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17126\" src=\"https:\/\/www-upgrade.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1366\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2.png 1366w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2-1250x703.png 1250w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2-720x405.png 720w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2-500x281.png 500w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2-360x202.png 360w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2-200x112.png 200w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2-100x56.png 100w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2-53x30.png 53w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1366px) 100vw, 1366px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In doing so, we also made sure that the new UI is better fitted for mobile devices.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-17127 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www-upgrade.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"434\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/3.png 768w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/3-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/3-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/3-50x50.png 50w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/3-35x35.png 35w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/3-560x560.png 560w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/3-473x473.png 473w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/3-328x328.png 328w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/3-236x236.png 236w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/3-131x131.png 131w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/3-90x90.png 90w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/3-30x30.png 30w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/3-600x600.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of mobility&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2>Mobile Push Notifications Are Here!<\/h2>\n<p>Driven by client request, we introduced support for native mobile push notifications for the <strong>eXo Mobile app<\/strong> available for <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=org.exoplatform&amp;hl=en\" class=\"broken_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Android<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/exo\/id410476273?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iOS<\/a> devices.<\/p>\n<p>Users can now receive native alerts on their phones about things happening in their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/?utm_source=BlogEn&amp;utm_medium=Blog&amp;utm_campaign=Content&amp;utm_content=link\">eXo Platform<\/a> site, depending on their personal notification settings.<\/p>\n<h2><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17128\" src=\"https:\/\/www-upgrade.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/44.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1194\" height=\"80\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/44.png 1194w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/44-300x20.png 300w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/44-1024x69.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/44-768x51.png 768w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/44-720x48.png 720w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/44-500x34.png 500w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/44-360x24.png 360w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/44-200x13.png 200w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/44-100x7.png 100w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/44-70x5.png 70w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1194px) 100vw, 1194px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17129\" src=\"https:\/\/www-upgrade.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/55.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/55.png 1600w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/55-300x27.png 300w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/55-1024x93.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/55-768x70.png 768w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/55-1536x139.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/55-1250x113.png 1250w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/55-720x65.png 720w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/55-500x45.png 500w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/55-360x33.png 360w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/55-200x18.png 200w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/55-100x9.png 100w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/55-70x6.png 70w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-17130 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www-upgrade.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/66.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"505\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/66.png 1600w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/66-300x214.png 300w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/66-1024x730.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/66-768x548.png 768w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/66-1536x1095.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/66-1250x891.png 1250w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/66-663x473.png 663w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/66-460x328.png 460w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/66-331x236.png 331w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/66-184x131.png 184w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/66-100x71.png 100w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/66-42x30.png 42w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2>Noisy chat rooms? Now you can just leave them.<\/h2>\n<p>You may already know that the chat module in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/?utm_source=BlogEn&amp;utm_medium=Blog&amp;utm_campaign=Content&amp;utm_content=link\">eXo Platform<\/a> lets you create chat rooms and invite people to them to discuss and collaborate in real-time leveraging a set of platform-integrated features (documents, tasks, events, meeting notes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www-upgrade.exoplatform.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/23\/platform-5-0-sneak-peek-web-conferencing-exo-platform\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">web conferencing<\/a>, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>However, we noticed that with time the user can find himself a member in too many rooms that he does no longer needs or in which he&#8217;s not needed anymore. This generates unnecessary noise for said user. So we added this feature allowing users to choose to quit a <strong>chat room<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17131 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www-upgrade.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/77.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/77.png 432w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/77-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/77-360x213.png 360w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/77-200x119.png 200w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/77-100x59.png 100w, https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/77-51x30.png 51w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2>Fine-Grained Permissions in Task Management<\/h2>\n<p>Any members of a project used to be able to delete its tasks. The Tasks module now allows setting user permissions at the level of projects (and subprojects) allowing to prevent tasks participants or simple observers from deleting tasks which they do not own.<\/p>\n<h2>The Techy Stuff<\/h2>\n<p>Technical improvements focused mainly on enterprise integration.<\/p>\n<p>We added support for version 7.1 of JBoss EAP for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/product-offer\/?utm_source=BlogEn&amp;utm_medium=Blog&amp;utm_campaign=Content&amp;utm_content=link\">eXo Platform Enterprise Edition<\/a>. We improved multi-source Users\/Groups\/Roles import by making the retrieval of data from external stores (eXo IDM internal database, LDAP\/Active Directory, custom stores, etc.) asynchronous, importing periodically the data into the internal eXo IDM database. We improved user data integration by reducing the data footprint of creating and synchronizing accounts. We also simplified the platform\u2019s cache administration by harmonizing cache configuration in cluster and local modes to simplify its administration.<\/p>\n<p>This version also marked the first phase of a new series of security auditing and improvements aided by the feedback of our security-sensitive customer organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Last but not least, and as always, this new version packs cumulative bug fixes.<\/p>\n<h2>What\u2019s next?<\/h2>\n<p>Interested in knowing what product improvements we are targeting in the next versions? Simply follow our roadmap page <a href=\"https:\/\/community.exoplatform.com\/portal\/intranet\/wiki\/group\/spaces\/platform_4\/Roadmap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A 30-day trial of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/product-offer\/?utm_source=BlogEn&amp;utm_medium=Blog&amp;utm_campaign=Content&amp;utm_content=link\">eXo Platform Enterprise Edition<\/a> is available on the <a href=\"http:\/\/community.exoplatform.com\/downloads\" class=\"broken_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">downloads page<\/a>. It ships as a pre-built docker image.<\/p>\n<p>As always, we welcome your feedback, questions and requests. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/contact-us\/?utm_source=BlogEn&amp;utm_medium=Blog&amp;utm_campaign=Content&amp;utm_content=link\">Contact us here<\/a> if you have any.<\/p>\n<p>On behalf of all the eXo family, we thank you for your support and hope you enjoy another new release of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/?utm_source=BlogEn&amp;utm_medium=Blog&amp;utm_campaign=Content&amp;utm_content=link\">eXo Platform<\/a>!<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"adv-events\" style=\"background: #476fad; padding: 30px 20px; color: white;\">\n<div class=\"media\">\n<div class=\"pull-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/community.exoplatform.com\/portal\/dw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6587 alignright\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tribe.png\" alt=\"Join The eXo Tribe\" height=\"120px\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"media-body\">\n<h4 class=\"media-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/community.exoplatform.com\/portal\/dw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Join The eXo Tribe<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/community.exoplatform.com\/portal\/dw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nRegister for our Community to Get updates, tutorials, support, and access to the Platform and add-on downloads. <strong>Sign in Now!<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We are excited to announce the immediate availability of eXo Platform\u2019s new version 5.1. 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