# Zulip Desktop changelog

> The desktop client for Zulip's threaded team chat.

- Vendor: Zulip
- Category: Communication
- Platforms: Desktop
- Official site: https://zulip.com/apps
- Tracked by: What's New (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/zulip)
- Harvested from: GitHub (zulip/zulip-desktop)
- Entries below: 10 (newest first)

What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog.

## Releases

### v5.12.4

- Date: 2026-06-26
- Version: v5.12.4
- Original notes: https://github.com/zulip/zulip-desktop/releases/tag/v5.12.4
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/zulip/releases/v5.12.4
- Labels: Platforms: Desktop

- **added** — Add support for Estonian, Hebrew, Norwegian, and Norwegian Nynorsk languages in translations
- **changed** — Update Linux Snap package with native Wayland support
- **changed** — Upgrade Electron to 42.5.0
- **fixed** — Fix sorting of languages in the spellchecker languages setting

###### v5.12.4 --2026-06-25

**Enhancements**:

- Updated translations, including new languages Estonian, Hebrew, Norwegian, and Norwegian Nynorsk.
- The Linux Snap package has been updated with native Wayland support.

**Dependencies**:

- Upgraded all dependencies, including Electron 42.5.0.

**Fixes**:

- Fixed sorting of languages in the spellchecker languages setting.

### v5.12.3

- Date: 2025-12-12
- Version: v5.12.3
- Original notes: https://github.com/zulip/zulip-desktop/releases/tag/v5.12.3
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/zulip/releases/v5.12.3
- Labels: Platforms: Desktop

- **changed** — Adjust text contrast in settings panel
- **changed** — Update translations

###### v5.12.3 --2025-12-12

**Enhancements**:

- Adjusted text contrast in settings panel.
- Updated translations.

**Dependencies**:

- Upgraded all dependencies, including Electron 39.2.7.

### v5.12.2

- Date: 2025-09-01
- Version: v5.12.2
- Original notes: https://github.com/zulip/zulip-desktop/releases/tag/v5.12.2
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/zulip/releases/v5.12.2
- Labels: Platforms: Desktop

###### v5.12.2 --2025-09-01

**Fixes**:

- Corrected broken translations in Chinese (simplified), Finnish, German, Greek, and Tamil that crashed the app.

### v5.12.1

- Date: 2025-08-29
- Version: v5.12.1
- Original notes: https://github.com/zulip/zulip-desktop/releases/tag/v5.12.1
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/zulip/releases/v5.12.1
- Labels: Platforms: Desktop

###### v5.12.1 --2025-08-29

**Enhancements**:

- Enabled macOS Writing Tools in the context menu.
- Marked untranslated strings for translation.
- Updated translations.

**Dependencies**:

- Upgraded all dependencies, including Electron 37.4.0.

### v5.12.0

- Date: 2025-03-13
- Version: v5.12.0
- Original notes: https://github.com/zulip/zulip-desktop/releases/tag/v5.12.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/zulip/releases/v5.12.0
- Labels: Platforms: Desktop

###### v5.12.0 --2025-03-13

**Enhancements**:

- Updated the icon in macOS with a native appearance.
- Marked untranslated strings for translation.
- Updated translations.

**Dependencies**:

- Upgraded all dependencies, including Electron 35.0.1.

**Removed features**:

- Removed support for macOS 10.15 and earlier, which reached end-of-life in 2022 and is [no longer supported](https://www.electronjs.org/blog/electron-33-0#removed-macos-1015-support) by Electron.

### v5.11.1

- Date: 2024-08-24
- Version: v5.11.1
- Original notes: https://github.com/zulip/zulip-desktop/releases/tag/v5.11.1
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/zulip/releases/v5.11.1
- Labels: Platforms: Desktop

###### v5.11.1 --2024-08-23

**Enhancements**:

- Updated translations.

**Dependencies**:

- Upgraded all dependencies, including Electron 32.0.1.

### v5.11.0

- Date: 2024-03-23
- Version: v5.11.0
- Original notes: https://github.com/zulip/zulip-desktop/releases/tag/v5.11.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/zulip/releases/v5.11.0
- Labels: Platforms: Desktop

###### v5.11.0 --2024-03-22

**Fixes**:

- Removed the popup dialog for certificate errors when loading subresources such as images.
- Allowed hiding the window from full screen mode on macOS.

**Enhancements**:

- Enabled zooming with Ctrl+mouse wheel on Linux and Windows.

**Dependencies**:

- Upgraded all dependencies, including Electron 29.1.5.

### v5.10.5

- Date: 2024-01-26
- Version: v5.10.5
- Original notes: https://github.com/zulip/zulip-desktop/releases/tag/v5.10.5
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/zulip/releases/v5.10.5
- Labels: Platforms: Desktop

###### v5.10.5 --2024-01-25

**Dependencies**:

- Upgraded all dependencies, including Electron 28.2.0.

**Enhancements**:

- Improved security hardening by setting a Content-Security-Policy for the app UI.

### v5.10.4

- Date: 2024-01-09
- Version: v5.10.4
- Original notes: https://github.com/zulip/zulip-desktop/releases/tag/v5.10.4
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/zulip/releases/v5.10.4
- Labels: Platforms: Desktop

###### v5.10.4 --2024-01-09

**Dependencies**:

- Upgraded all dependencies, including Electron 28.1.1.

### v5.10.3

- Date: 2023-09-30
- Version: v5.10.3
- Original notes: https://github.com/zulip/zulip-desktop/releases/tag/v5.10.3
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/zulip/releases/v5.10.3
- Labels: Platforms: Desktop

###### v5.10.3 --2023-09-30

**Fixes**:

- Fixed an error in the third-party `gatemaker` library that broke the display of notifications for completed downloads.

**Dependencies**:

- Upgraded all dependencies, including Electron 25.8.4.