HipChat

HipChat provides group chat and IM for teams.

Features

• Persistent Rooms and 1-to-1 Chat - Share ideas, code, and files with your team in real time. Rooms are perfect for individual projects, teams, or entire departments. You can also hop into a 1-to-1 chat with a coworker anytime.
• Real-time video chat and screen sharing - Connect your team and build genuine consensus with face-to-face video chat and real-time screen sharing. The next best thing to right next to you.
• Complete Chat History - Catch up on things you missed while you were away, and pick up right where you left off from any device. HipChat saves your conversations so you'll never forget who said what, and when.
• Drag-and-Drop File Sharing - Share mockups, PDFs, Office docs, and other files for instant feedback. HipChat keeps a complete history so you can access shared files anytime, anywhere.
• Instant Notifications - Never miss an important conversation in HipChat again with email and mobile push notifications. Grab someone's attention with @mentions and bring the right people into the conversation.
• Private, Safe, and Secure - Chat with confidence. HipChat's secure conversations are transferred in 256-bit SSL encryption -- the same security protocol as online banks.
• Y U No Have Emoticons - Spice up your chats with the latest emoticons and memes. We're constantly adding to our library of 150+ emoticons, and you can even upload your own.
• Secure Guest Access - Bring clients, vendors, and other third-parties into a HipChat room. They'll only see what you want them to see. You have complete control.

New

• Touch Bar! One more excuse for you to buy a new MacBook Pro. Use the Touch Bar to open a chat, start a video chat, change your presence, and more.
• We added new slash commands. Type /pre or /monospace to apply monospace formatting to the text in a message. Like /code, but for the rest of us.

Improved

• The HipChat client would sometimes get a little confused about its online status while connected to a VPN. We got that sorted out, and reconnection should be more reliable than ever.
• Animated GIFs as avatars are fun and all, but they can be a bit of a drain on your CPU. We've added a new Appearance setting that lets you disable your teammates' animated avatars and give your CPU a break.
• HipChat Video, in general. It's all kinds of more awesome.

Fixed

• Newly created rooms weren't immediately available for users connected to HipChat Server instances.
• Notification messages that included a mention were not triggering the appropriate notifications.
• When trying to delete a room while offline, the dialog would stay open until you restarted the app.
• Searching for rooms or people was slow for large teams.
• Various smaller bug fixes and crashes.