Description:

Users are unable to see the channel history of public channels. Everything works fine with private-channels, or, if you are an admin user.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Click on a public channel as non-admin.
2. Blank content page appears

Expected behavior:

Channel history should appear.

Actual behavior:

There is only a blank content page, as if the channel was newly created. The Title and channel description is present, as well as a title for "Beginn des Gesprächs" (should be "Start of Conversation" in EN). Neither the server log, nor the browser js-console state an error/hint. Same for Rocket.Chat Electron Client for Windows.

Server Setup Information:

• Version of Rocket.Chat Server: tried 0.67.0 + 0.68.0 + 0.68.1
• Operating System: Debian Stretch/stable
• Deployment Method: tar, by Docs -> manual install for ubuntu
• Number of Running Instances: 1
• DB Replicaset Oplog: enabled
• NodeJS Version: 8.11.3 - x64
• MongoDB Version: 3.2.11-2+deb9u1

Additional context

I updated from 0.65.x, skipped 0.66.x and got directly to 0.67.0. The issue appeared with at least 0.67.0. 0.68.0 and 0.68.1 are affected as well. Reference to #11560; closed because of the issuer - but issue still exists. There you'll find screenshots too.

Relevant logs:

Nothing is logged.