This Week in Matrix 2025-12-12

2025-12-12T17:19:38+00:00

🔗</a>Dept of Spec 📜</h2>
Andrew Morgan (anoa) {he/him}</a> says</p>

Here's your weekly spec update! The heart of Matrix is the specification - and this is modified by Matrix Spec Change (MSC) proposals. Learn more about how the process works at https://spec.matrix.org/proposals</a>.</p>
🔗</a>MSC Status</h3>
New MSCs:</strong></p>
MSC4388: Secure out-of-band channel for sign in with QR</a></li>
MSC4387: `M_SAFETY</code> error code</a></li>`
MSC4386: Automatically sharing secrets after device verification</a></li> </ul> MSCs in Final Comment Period:</strong></p> No MSCs are in FCP.</em></li> </ul> Accepted MSCs:</strong></p> No MSCs were accepted this week.</em></li> </ul> Closed MSCs:</strong></p> MSC4124: Simple Server Authorization</a> Superseded by MSC4345: Server key identity and room membership</a>.</li> </ul> </li> MSC4099: Participation based authorization for servers in the Matrix DAG</a> Superseded by MSC4345: Server key identity and room membership</a>.</li> </ul> </li> MSC3953: Server capability DAG</a> Superseded by MSC4345: Server key identity and room membership</a>.</li> </ul> </li> MSC4294: Ignore and mass ignore invites</a> Superseded by MSC4155: Invite Filtering</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> 🔗</a>Spec Updates</h3> The Spec Core Team expects to release Matrix v1.17 next week with a few MSCs, along with some improvements to the spec website. Stay tuned for those!</p> Otherwise we're still working away at Matrix 2.0 MSCs - trying to keep them at the forefront while occasionally dipping into other MSCs. MSC4143: MatrixRTC</a>, MSC4354: Sticky Events</a> and MSC4186: Simplified Sliding Sync</a> are the three currently being most actively worked on. The team appreciates your patience while the details are being hammered out.</p> </blockquote> </span> 🔗</a>Dept of Servers 🏢</h2> 🔗</a>Synapse (website</a>)</h3> Synapse is a Matrix homeserver implementation developed by Element.</p> Devon Dmytro</a> announces</p> This week we released Synapse v1.144.0.</p> This release adds the following new features:</p> Add experimental implementation of MSC4380</a> (invite blocking). (#19203</a>)</li> Delayed event timeouts can now be restarted from workers. #19207</a></li> </ul> ... and a whole lot more!</p> Thank you to all our contributors for helping to make Synapse the best it can be. As always, feel free to stop by #synapse:matrix.org</a> to join in on the discussion and if you encounter a bug make sure to report it here</a>.</p> </blockquote> 🔗</a>Homeserver Deployment 📥️</h2> 🔗</a>Element Server Suite (website</a>)</h3> Element Server Suite (ESS) is a backend hosting solution for Matrix-based communications that supports self-hosted and fully managed deployments.</p> Gaël G.</a> says</p> ESS Community 25.12.1</a> and ESS Pro 25.12.1</a> have been released!</strong></p> Both bring in upgrades of Synapse to v1.144.0, Matrix Authentication Service to v1.8.0 & Element Admin v0.1.10. Support for IPv4, IPv6 only or dual-stack clusters is now complete!</p> </blockquote> 🔗</a>Dept of Clients 📱</h2> 🔗</a>Extera Next</h3> OfficialDakari</a> reports</p> After a long time, a new update of Extera Next finally arrives! We also decided to change our versioning scheme, so now it's 25.1.0.</p> 🔗</a>What's new?</h4> Brought back calls. They should work, just enable experimental video calls. Keep in mind that VoIP is still in beta! Also fixed screen sharing.</li> Incoming calls now use system ringtone!</li> Background downloads were a part of Extera since 2.1.0. And today, we are bringing them to Linux version!</li> Removed chat filters, we replaced them with bottom navigation bar. Well, we just moved chat filters to navbar.</li> Some fixes for polls: They are now visible to other clients.</li> Revamped UI: room emote settings and user profile view.</li> "About yourself" field. Now you can tell the world about yourself, remember to fit that into 256 characters tho. We used custom profile fields, this one is xyz.extera.about</code>, a string field.</li> Fixed search query leaking: Now you need to press Enter to start a global search.</li> Some simple QoL changes: read receipts dialog and copying links to messages.</li> </ul> That's all for this update. You can already download binaries on our website</a>!</p> </blockquote> 🔗</a>Element X iOS (website</a>)</h3> A total rewrite of Element iOS using the Matrix Rust SDK underneath and targeting devices running iOS 17+.</p> Mauro Romito</a> announces</p> Solved a bug that slowed down or made unreliable the room list</li> On the spaces side the space settings work is pretty much complete and in QA</li> We also added the ability to set the restricted and knock restricted space settings to a room/space, and provide a list of allowed spaces (such spaces` members won't need to be invited or knock the room to join it)</li> We started working on linking another device through QR, which will allow EXI to generate a qr code that when scanned by another device, will allow an automatic verified login.</li> However such feature will also work with EW, but the QR code is generated by EW, and scanned by EXI, allowing a seamless automatic verified login on EW.</li> We are experimenting with the idea of bringing spaces in the room list, and how to best visualise them to provide the best possible UX</li> </ul> </blockquote> 🔗</a>Dept of Bots 🤖</h2> morethanabitoff</a> announces</p> I created two new matrix chat bots to help support the Northern Virginia Linux Users Group, but they are general enough that others could find them useful:</p> A general help bot that also sends messages to people on joins. https://github.com/anewton1998/matrix-bot-help</a></li> An iCal reminder bot, responds to !meeting and also sends periodic reminders: https://github.com/anewton1998/matrix-bot-ical</a></li> </ul> Both written in Rust using the very sweet matrix-rust-sdk</a>.</p> </blockquote> 🔗</a>Dept of Events and Talks 🗣️</h2> The one with the braid (she/her) ⚡</a> announces</p> Winter is coming! And winter for hackers means warm Punsch, comfy pullovers and of course the Chaos Communication Congress</a>.</p> The Matrix Community was given space to meet and hang out on the 39th Chaos Communication COngress (39c3) at the Matrix Community Assembly</a>. Apart from the assembly open during the entire congress, there will be an organized Matrix Community Meetup</a></strong> on Day 2, 2 p.m. CET.</p> Other Matrix highlights for 39c3:</p> The Meet-Up Matrix-Uni-Admins</a> on Day 3, 3 p.m. CET, right after the Community Meetup</li> Various talks, meetups and Self-organized sessions to be published tagged matrix</a></li> </ul> The 39c3 requires a registration and paid tickets which are sold out in the official ticket shop. Late hackers might still gather a ticket at the official ticket marketplace</a> avoiding shady 3rd party platforms.</p> 👩🏽‍💻 Matrix Community Assembly and Matrix Community Meetup</li> 🧕🏽 Hackers interested in Matrix who want to get in touch with other Community Members</li> 🕰️ Day 2 (29th of December 2025) at 2 p.m.</li> 🗺️ Matrix Community Assembly in c-base habitat, Halle H</li> 🌐 39th Chaos Communication Congress, Hamburg, Germany</li> 🎟️ Ticket for 39c3 required, no registration for Meetup or Assembly</li> </ul> Learn more:</p> https://matrix-community.events/</a></li> https://matrix.to/#/#community-events:matrix.org</a></li> </ul> </blockquote> 🔗</a>Matrix Federation Stats</h2> Aine [etke.cc]</a> reports</p> Collected by MatrixRooms.info</a> - an MRS</a> instance by etke.cc</a></p> As of today, 11868</code> Matrix federateable servers have been discovered by matrixrooms.info, 3237</code> (27.3%</code>) of them are publishing their rooms directory over federation. The published directories contain 16670</code> rooms.</p> The most popular server software among the online servers is:</p> synapse: 10154</code> (85.6%</code>)</li> conduit: 476</code> (4.0%</code>)</li> dendrite: 370</code> (3.1%</code>)</li> continuwuity: 322</code> (2.7%</code>)</li> </ul> Stats timeline is available on 📊 MatrixRooms.info/stats</a></p> 🧩 Integrations with apps and servers</a> | 👉 How to add your server</a> | 🙅 How to remove your server</a></p> </blockquote> 🔗</a>Dept of Ping</h2> Here we reveal, rank, and applaud the homeservers with the lowest ping, as measured by pingbot</a>, a maubot</a> that you can host on your own server.</p> 🔗</a>#ping:maunium.net</a></h3> Join #ping:maunium.net</a> to experience the fun live, and to find out how to add YOUR server to the game.</p> Rank</th> Hostname</th> Median MS</th></tr></thead> 1</td> pingtest.dedyn.io</td> 164.5</td></tr> 2</td> codestorm.net</td> 199</td></tr> 3</td> vibb.me</td> 254</td></tr> 4</td> melthecat.dev</td> 268</td></tr> 5</td> nerdhouse.io</td> 301.5</td></tr> 6</td> federated.nexus</td> 326.5</td></tr> 7</td> feralfox.net</td> 375</td></tr> 8</td> tomfos.tr</td> 399</td></tr> 9</td> muoi.me</td> 418</td></tr> 10</td> shork.ch</td> 476</td></tr> </tbody></table> 🔗</a>That's all I know</h2> See you next week, and be sure to stop by #twim:matrix.org</a> with your updates!</p> To learn more about how to prepare an entry for TWIM check out the TWIM guide</a>.</p> This Week in Matrix 2025-12-05 2025-12-05T19:41:50+00:00 🔗</a>Matrix Live S11E17 Element X Android gets a boost</h2>

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