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🔗Matrix Conference 2025 - The Matrix State of the Union

Alternatively you can find it on media.ccc.de at https://media.ccc.de/v/matrix-conf-2025-74977-the-matrix-state-of-the-union.

🔗Matrix Conference Recordings

Beyond the Matrix State of The Union you can also find all of the Matrix Conference recordings at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl5dnxRMP1hUgnYEbpEsEEhIqY_KlO3NG.

They are also available on media.ccc.de at https://media.ccc.de/c/matrix-conf-2025.

🔗Dept of Status of Matrix 🌡️

🔗DINUM joins The Matrix.org Foundation

Amandine says

🇫🇷 Very excited to announce that DINUM, the French Interministerial Digital Directorate, is joining The Matrix.org Foundation as a Silver member and becomes the first government to join the Foundation! 🚀

Matrix is the backbone of Tchap, the secure messaging app for the French government, and it is great to see a State stepping up to concretely support and collaborate with an open source project so critical to their functioning.

💡 We hope this will show the way to all the other public sector organisations using Matrix, especially after we kicked off a Matrix for Public Sector group at the Matrix Conference last week, hopefully soon approved by the Governing Board as an official Working Group 🤞!

➡️ check out the announcement blog!

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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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🔗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

🔗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 🌡️

🔗Governing Board (website)

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

Gwmngilfen reports

A few weeks ago the Governing Board brought you news of a Working Group process, and the first ones had been proposed using it. I'm happy to report that we now have our first two active Working Groups!

🔗New Groups

Firstly, we have the Website Working Group, which (from their charter) has "responsibility for editorial and technical oversight of the main Matrix websites and social media channels. This includes the main matrix.org website, conference website, and the various social media channels". They've already had their first meetings, and you can find them in #matrix.org-website:matrix.org

Secondly, we have the Events Working Group, which (again from the charter) is "the main organising team of the official events hosted by the Foundation, such as the Matrix Conference or co-hosting FOSDEM Fringe". They are just spinning up their processes, and you can find them in #events-wg:matrix.org

🔗More Groups Wanted

We want to see many more groups! We have a couple of new groups under consideration by the Board which I hope to bring you news of soon, but in the meantime, discussion and/or volunteering for potential new groups is very welcome in #governing-board-office:matrix.org ! (And yes, I still want to get the Docs and UX groups running, speak to me in that room if you wish to volunteer 😛)

Thanks for your efforts & work, on behalf of your Governing Board!

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🔗Dept of Status of Matrix 🌡️

🔗Trust & Safety

Jim announces

If you are wondering what the Foundation Safety team get up to, and what we have planned, we have an update for you. Check out the post: Building a Safer Matrix

🔗Dept of Spec 📜

TravisR announces

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:

• MSC4264: Tokens for Contacting Accounts
• MSC4265: Data Protection Officer contact in /.well-known/matrix/support
• MSC4266: Policies in /.well-known/matrix/support

MSCs in Final Comment Period:

• No MSCs are in FCP.

Accepted MSCs:

• No MSCs were accepted this week.

Closed MSCs:

• No MSCs were closed/rejected this week.

🔗Spec Update

Lots of MSC implementation and iteration is happening behind the scenes at the moment, leading to not very exciting Spec Core Team (SCT) updates :) As this implementation work progresses, the Matrix 2.0 MSCs in particular will continue to push forwards towards acceptance.

In the meantime, early versions of Extensible Profiles is up for review and today's blog post "Building a Safer Matrix" hints at some T&S spec changes expected soon.

The next spec release is expected in early March 2025 - if there's MSCs you think should be included there, let the team know in the SCT Office!

🔗Informal TI-Messenger Spec Discussion

Johannes reports

@this-week-in:matrix.org for people interested in informally discussing the Matrix-based TI-Messenger (TI-M) spec, as of today we have a public room: https://matrix.to/#/#tim-spec:matrix.org

If you haven't heard of TI-M before, in a nutshell it's a chat standard for the German healthcare system.

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🔗Matrix Live

🔗Dept of Events and Talks 🗣️

🔗Matrix@FOSDEM 2025

As a reminder Matrix will again be present at FOSDEM this year!

As always, FOSDEM is free to attend and will happen at the 1. and 2. of February. Additionally we will have a fringe event on the 31st of January. You can find more information in the "Matrix in full force at FOSDEM" blog post.

Additionally please be aware that the Health and Safety Policy for the fringe event will be the same as the one of the Matrix Conference. Extremely briefly: You need to wear a mask while indoors, except while eating and drinking.

🔗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:

• MSC4253: Modifying or rejecting accepted MSCs
• MSC4252: Extensible Events modification: State event handling
• MSC4250: Authenticated media v2 (Cookie authentication for Client-Server API)

MSCs in Final Comment Period:

• MSC4213: Remove server_name parameter from join and knock endpoints (merge)

Accepted MSCs:

• No MSCs were accepted this week.

MSCs in Proposed Final Comment Period:

• MSC4133: Extending User Profile API with Key:Value Pairs
• MSC3765: Rich text in room topics
• MSC3266: Room summary API
• MSC4239: Room version 11 as the default room version
• MSC3757: Restricting who can overwrite a state event
• MSC4183: Additional Error Codes for submitToken endpoint

Closed MSCs:

• MSC3575: Sliding Sync (aka Sync v3)
  • Superseded by MSC4186: Simplified Sliding Sync
• [WIP] MSC4097: Interactions between media redirection and authentication
  • Replaced by spec-independent approaches.

🔗Spec Updates

As suggested from folks in the TWIM room, the above status now contains MSCs that are currently in proposed Final Comment Period. The hope is that this directs attention to MSCs that are close to being either merged/closed.

Let me know what you think!

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🔗Dept of Status of Matrix 🌡️

🔗Governing Board (website)

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

HarHarLinks says

I'm excited to share some quick news from the governing board today! Over the holidays around the new year, we finished the committee chair elections and congratulate:

• Bram and Sumner, chair and vice chair of the Governance committee,
• Sumner and Nico, chair and vice chair of the Community committee,
• Robin and Kevin, chair and vice chair of the Finance committee,
• J.B. and Nico, chair and vice chair of the Trust & Safety committee!

This paves the way for the committees to start taking up work while at the same time the governing board as a whole also finalises the processes around working groups so we can onboard all of you!

We look forward to sharing another update soon, and Matrix @ FOSDEM is also on the horizon, where attendees will be able to meet a good handful of governing board members face to face! For any questions, feedback, or discussion with/about the governing board, join our #governing-board-office:matrix.org!

Until next time!

🔗Dept of Spec 📜

Andrew Morgan (anoa) {he/him} says

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:

• There were no new MSCs this week.

MSCs in Final Comment Period:

• No MSCs are in FCP.

Accepted MSCs:

• No MSCs were accepted this week.

Closed MSCs:

• No MSCs were closed/rejected this week.

🔗Spec Updates

It may seem quiet from the stats above, but there's actually been a healthy amount of activity across various MSCs this week!

MSC3266: Room summary API had FCP proposed, which moves this long-awaited MSC significantly closer to being accepted. This MSC allows clients to get a quick preview of a room before joining it, which is useful in all sorts of scenarios (see the MSC for a list!). There's still a fair amount of feedback to get through, but much of it is small clarifying comments. Exciting to see this one move forward!

MSC4133: Extending User Profile API with Key:Value Pairs has also been moving forward, with the Synapse implementation in active review by the maintainers, and all concerns on the MSC (currently) having been resolved this week.

There's plenty of activity on other MSCs as authors work to update them. Also a huge thanks again to those working on the spec text itself. Multiple PRs against the matrix-spec repo have been opened following the holidays, all making the spec better for everyone. Thank you!

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🔗Matrix Live - Social Login with MAS

🔗Dept of Status of Matrix 🌡️

🔗Welcoming Ercom as a Silver Member

Josh Simmons (m.org) says

We'd like to welcome Ercom as the newest Silver Member of the Matrix.org Foundation and are excited to announce a couple other new members before the end of the year 🚀

The Matrix.org Foundation stewards the Matrix protocol specification, facilitates open governance, and convenes the ecosystem. While Matrix continues growing in adoption, the Foundation's funding is not keeping pace. If your organization builds on Matrix and is invested in its future, the time to become a funding member is now.

🔗Matrix.org protocol is not MATRIX

Josh Simmons (m.org) announces

From the department of no-the-other-Matrix: This week saw news of Europol shutting down an encrypted messaging service called MATRIX. All indications are that this has nothing to do with the Matrix protocol, and we are grateful to the agencies and publications that have made an effort to disambiguate. We are, of course, monitoring the situation as more information becomes available.

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🔗Dept of Status of Matrix 🌡️

🔗Sunsetting the Sliding Sync Proxy: Moving to Native Support

Will L announces

Work on Sliding Sync – which provides a significantly faster and more scalable sync experience in Matrix clients – has moved to focus on native support, and away from the proxy.

The Sliding Sync Proxy on the Matrix.org homeserver will be decommissioned on November 21st, and client support in Element X will be removed on January 17th.

More details for users as well as server and client developers in Matrix.org's latest blog post

🔗First Official Governing Board Meeting

HarHarLinks says

It is Friday TWIMday the 15th of November, and the Governing Board just came out of their first official meeting after the informal one at the Matrix Conference back in September. The focus of this meeting was to define the structure of the Governing Board, so we expect the results will not have an immediate tangible effect outside the Governing Board, but it gives the Governing Board the basic process to enable taking more perceptible decisions.

This includes discussion about how we want to communicate with each other, but we also defined how we vote on actual decisions and some other basic rules for the Governing Board. As a part of that we elected a chair and vice chair for the Governing Board, who are going to help the Governing Board with facilitation tasks. Greg "Gwmngilfen" (chair) and Kim "HarHarLinks" (vice) were elected and are happy to share this post as one of our first actions in this role today. 😁 We also started some subcommittees of the Governing Board, to enable us to work efficiently in smaller groups focussed on specific topics. The rough topics for the initial four committees are Governance, Trust & Safety, Community, and Finances. What their exact scopes are going to be is left as a first task to the respective committees to define along with other bootstrapping, such as electing committee chairs and vice chairs. The set of initial committees is intentionally kept small to remain flexible and open the door for refining them later when we have more experience with how our day to day operations look like. We also discussed defining initial working groups, which would be structured as groups below the committees to fulfil more specific roles and would be the primary way for the Governing Board to include the community. However, we decided to defer that to the committees for now. We got through all the big parts on our agenda but ran out of time before having a formal vote on what communication tools we want to use. We have a great proposal which we are going to vote on asynchronously.

In general we had quite a productive meeting and reached agreements on many topics with clear next steps in other areas. The Governing Board might not have tackled yet the topics you would have prioritised, but it now has an asynchronous voting process and should be able to progress in other areas using the committees.

See you soon with more news from the Governing Board!

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