This Week in Matrix

🔗Dept of elections 🗳️

Robin Riley (m.org) reports

Voting for the Governing Board elections begins this weekend! 🎉 Watch your email inbox if you're an Individual Member, or the point of contact for a Silver, Gold, or Associate Member, as that's where your ballot will be sent. Visit our election center for more information.

Sumner Evans announces

I have decided that I will not stand for re-election in the upcoming Governing Board elections, however I have made a few endorsements for candidates. See my endorsement blog post.

🔗Dept of Events and Talks 🗣️

HarHarLinks announces

🔗Matrix Conference 2025 (website)

The CfP is open until June 8th! Submit your talk or workshop idea now!

The Events Working Group is working hard on organising the Matrix Conference in an incredible venue in the gorgeous city of Strasbourg. Book your accommodation now, tickets will be available soon!

If you are interested in lending a hand, volunteer to help us organize the conference, or join the Events WG!

We're grateful to Element for committing to being our Anchor Sponsor for the Matrix Conference 2025. To make this an excellent event, we are looking for further sponsors! Many opportunities are still available, including booths to present your product, live stream and video recording for worldwide recognition, food, and more! Your ideas are possible; contact us at [email protected]!

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🔗Matrix Live S10E24 - Matrix Conference, WASM rust-sdk, Element RoomList and more!

🔗Dept of Status of Matrix 🌡️

Robin Riley (m.org) says

Meet the nominees for the Governing Board and swing by the election rooms to ask questions and get to know them better. Huge thanks to all of the nominees for stepping up to serve the community! Voting begins on May 31st.

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🔗Matrix Live S10E24 – Tauri, Admin bot, HackDays, and European Collaboration on Matrix

🔗Dept of Events and Talks 🗣️

🔗Matrix Conference 2025

Thib (m.org) reports

We are excited to announce that The Matrix Conference will happen in Strasbourg from October 15 to 18! Following last year's success, we bumped our capacity to accept more than 300 attendees this year.

• 🗣️ The Call for Proposals is now open until June 6
• 🤝 We have sponsorship packages ready for organizations interested in getting the right eyes on their products
• 🎟️ We expect to open registrations in the coming weeks
• 🌐 You can find all the information about the conference on https://2025.matrix.org

The Events Working Group and the Foundation at large are looking forward to meeting you in the flesh this year again!

🔗Dept of elections 🗳️

HarHarLinks announces

The nomination period for this years's governing board elections ends tonight (UTC)! If you're an Individual, Silver, Gold, or Associate member, submit your nomination here!

Tomorrow (UTC), the 2 week campaigning period begins officially, but you are already allowed to campaign, for example in the official Governing Board campaigning rooms.

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🔗Matrix Live S10E23 – Making P2P Matrix more reliable with ReP2P Matrix

🔗Dept of elections 🗳️

Robin Riley (m.org) reports

It's Governing Board election season and nominations opened last weekend! This year we're electing representatives for Gold, Silver, Individual, and Associate Members. Learn more on the 2025 election page and consider nominating yourself! You can also drop by the Office of the Governing Board to talk to current representatives and community members.

🔗Dept of Servers 🏢

🔗Matrix Authentication Service (website)

Matrix Authentication Service (MAS) is an OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Provider server developed by Element.

Andrew Morgan (anoa) {he/him} says

MAS v0.16.0 was released this week with a new migration tool! It's still called syn2mas, but it's faster, more accurate and... written in Rust. 🦀 Running it against matrix.org showed users being migrated at a rate of 60k/s!

More details around the new tool, and migrating your homeserver to next-generation auth, is available in the MAS documentation. Please give it a try and send feedback!

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🔗Matrix Live S10E22 — LiveKit, Matrix Conf, Elections, and Kubernetes on a Raspi

🔗Dept of elections 🗳️

The Governing Board of the Matrix Foundation is an advisory board that is made up of elected representatives from all across the Matrix ecosystem.

Robin Riley (m.org) reports

It's time for our annual Governing Board elections! This year we're electing representatives from Individual Members, Associate Members, Gold Members, and Silver Members. Nominations open at midnight UTC as we move from Friday to Saturday, May 3rd. Learn more in our election announcement blog post.

🔗Dept of Status of Matrix 🌡️

Robin Riley (m.org) says

Please join me in welcoming Filament and infra.run as the newest Silver Members of the Foundation! The financial support we receive from members like them helps us steward the Matrix protocol as an unfragmented standard, facilitate open governance, and advance the state of Trust & Safety for the benefit of the entire ecosystem.

We're grateful for the outpouring of support from across the ecosystem. We still need a few larger organisations to step up. Do you rely on Matrix? Join us as a funding member.

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🔗Dept of Status of Matrix 🌡️

Robin Riley (m.org) reports

We are delighted announce that LiveKit is the newest Silver Member of the Foundation! The LiveKit Project is an open source project that does everything Matrix needs for native group calls, and the company behind the project is donating their LiveKit Cloud services to help us provide that functionality to users on the Matrix.org homeserver. We're grateful for their support and look forward to announcing 2-3 more new Silver Members in the coming weeks 🚀

🔗Dept of Spec 📜

Andrew Morgan (anoa) {he/him} reports

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.

🔗MSC Status

New MSCs:

• [WIP] MSC4284: Policy Servers

MSCs in Final Comment Period:

• No MSCs are in FCP.

Accepted MSCs:

• MSC3861: Next-generation auth for Matrix, based on OAuth 2.0/OIDC
• MSC2967: API scopes
• MSC2966: Usage of OAuth 2.0 Dynamic Client Registration in Matrix
• MSC2964: Usage of OAuth 2.0 authorization code grant and refresh token grant

Closed MSCs:

• MSC3391: API to delete account data

🔗Spec Updates

The update above is actually from the last 21 days to make up for the lack of spec updates recently (I've been travelling!).

In my opinion, the most interesting part to talk about above is MSC4284: Policy Servers. If you haven't already, read the matrix.org blog post on Introducing Policy Servers. In short, they're servers on the internet where you can send events to and have them be checked for spam/illegal imagery/etc. before allowing the event to be sent down to your users. You can think of them like a SpamChecker Synapse module, but homeserver implementation agnostic.

This is a pretty interesting idea, and one can host their own policy server to keep the network decentralised. If you're interested in weighing in on the topic, please do so on the MSC!

Note: the idea of a "policy server" is not new. This MSC attempts to bring the concept in to the Matrix ecosystem specifically for Trust & Safety purposes. But the APIs could be used to enforce any policy (security, enterprise use cases, etc.).

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🔗Dept of Status of Matrix 🌡️

Matthew reports

We've recently seen serious spam attacks against Matrix, so we're introducing Policy Servers to recommend whether servers should accept or discard events before they get synced to clients. If your server participates in public rooms, see https://matrix.org/blog/2025/04/introducing-policy-servers to keep it safe.

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🔗Matrix Live

Migrating millions of matrixers to MAS

🔗Dept of Status of Matrix 🌡️

Quentin Gliech says

🔗Matrix.org now uses MAS!

On Monday this week, the backend team at Element successfully migrated Matrix.org to use matrix-authentication-service (MAS).
This happened right after the core MSCs for next-generation auth got merged into the Matrix spec!

After a full week of running MAS on Matrix.org, we're happy to call the migration a great success! 🕺

This means Matrix.org users now have a new home to manage their accounts: account.matrix.org

You can read more about the migration on the Matrix.org blog:
👉 Matrix.org is now running MAS!
...and what it means for Element users on the Element blog:
👉 MAS migration unleashes Element X on Matrix.org

We're still ironing out a few bugs, so if you’ve experienced any issues related to the migration, let us know in #matrix-auth:matrix.org!

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🔗Matrix Live

🔗Dept of Clients 📱

🔗Element X iOS (website)

A total rewrite of Element-iOS using the Matrix Rust SDK underneath and targeting devices running iOS 16+.

Mauro Romito announces

• We are working on implementing a feature to report a room or an invite the contains offensive content
• Also improved our Notification Service Extension to consume less memory
• Updated our app icon
• Some small accessibility improvements were added
• Fixed a crash that might happen when backgrounding the app

🔗🧭: Dept of Guides 🧭

Wi11 wrote:

With MAS (Matrix Authentication Service) becoming a prominent part of the Matrix ecosystem, and the removal of the fallback Element provided MatrixRTC backend (Element Call), I wrote a couple of blog articles to document how I installed both with Docker Compose and configured them with Synapse.

Whilst the official docs are very good, perhaps this may be useful as a happy path guide for those who want to use docker compose, MAS, and the Element Call backend, together with Synapse.

➡️ Deploying an Element Call backend (MatrixRTC) with Docker Compose, and configured with Synapse

➡️ Deploying MAS with Docker Compose, migrating users, and configured with Synapse

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🔗Matrix Live

🔗Dept of Status of Matrix 🌡️

Robin Riley (m.org) reports

The Matrix.org Foundation is proud to join likeminded organisations in endorsing the United Nations Open Source Principles, a set of guidelines to promote collaboration and adoption of open source around the globe.

Robin Riley (m.org) says

Please join me in welcoming the newest Silver Member of the Matrix.org Foundation: SSH Communications Security! We're grateful to SSH for stepping up to support the Foundation's mission and stewardship of the Matrix protocol.

Does your organization rely on Matrix? We're working hard to close our budget gap, and we need your help. Join the Foundation to ensure Matrix has robust stewardship well into the future.

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