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Adds "channel" to the `stream_wildcards` frozenset for stream wildcard notifications on the backend/server. Updates frontend/web-app to handle "channel" as the other stream wildcards are handled in the typeahead and composebox modules. Updates the API version and documentation for the addition of "channel" as a wildcard mention. But does not change any of the functionailty of (or deprecate) the "stream" wildcard at this point. Part of project to rename "stream" to "channel".
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Message formatting
Zulip supports an extended version of Markdown for messages, as well as some HTML level special behavior. The Zulip help center article on message formatting is the primary documentation for Zulip's markup features. This article is currently a changelog for updates to these features.
The render a message endpoint can be used to get the current HTML version of any Markdown syntax for message content.
Code blocks
Changes: As of Zulip 4.0 (feature level 33), code blocks
can have a data-code-language attribute attached to the outer HTML
div element, which records the programming language that was selected
for syntax highlighting. This field is used in the
playgrounds feature for code blocks.
Global times
Changes: In Zulip 3.0 (feature level 8), added global time mentions to supported Markdown message formatting features.
Mentions
Changes: In Zulip 9.0 (feature level 247), channel was added
to the supported wildcard options used in the
mentions Markdown message formatting feature.
Spoilers
Changes: In Zulip 3.0 (feature level 15), added spoilers to supported Markdown message formatting features.
Removed features
Changes: In Zulip 4.0 (feature level 24), the rarely used !avatar()
and !gravatar() markup syntax, which was never documented and had an
inconsistent syntax, were removed.