When was the 1,000 user limit first applied to the free self-hosted Team Edition?

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Hi team,

I saw in the v11.0 release announcement that the user limit for the free self-hosted Team Edition has been reduced from 1,000 users to 250.

I’m trying to understand the timeline:
In which version was the 1,000 user limit first introduced?

From what I can tell:

  • In v10.6, the hard limit was set to 5,000 users, with a soft warning at 2,500 users.

  • I haven’t been able to find any changelog or documentation clearly stating when the hard limit was lowered to 1,000 before v11.

Any clarification on when the 1,000-user limit was introduced would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

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Take a look at my post about recent changes. It’s a self-inflicted wound. They’re shooting themselves in the foot.

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They’d have to have a foot left to shoot…

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I have the same question! I also noticed the hard limit before was 5000 users.

Hardware requirements for team deployments

Most small to medium Mattermost team deployments can be supported on a single server with the following specifications based on registered users:

  • 1 - 1,000 users - 1 vCPU/cores, 2 GB RAM

  • 1,000 - 2,000 users - 2 vCPUs/cores, 4 GB RAM

And hardware requirements indicate that 1000 users is easily supported by a tiny vm, so not sure how it’s being justified that performance degrades past 250 users.

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@it33_mattermost

Could you kindly confirm in which version the 1,000-user limit was introduced for the Team Edition?
The changelogs seem to mention the 5,000 limit in v10.6, but I haven’t seen any official note about when it dropped to 1,000.

Continuing the discussion from Mattermost v11 Changes in Free Offerings: