This Week in Matrix 2018-07-13

Welcome to TWIM for Friday the 13th! Nothing too scary, but lots of client updates and news.

Quaternion

kitsune:

Quaternion has gained a new /html command that allows one to send raw HTML. Note that an actually displayed HTML subset entirely depends on the receiving client; no HTML validation or sanitation is done; a plaintext version is automatically created by stripping all the HTML tags.

neo

f0x is working on Neo again:

added emotes, working localecho and /rainbow

rainbows :D

matrix-logger

A useful tool from CromFr for anyone who wants to archive logs of rooms.

I wrote a small matrix "client" for logging messages in joined rooms, and store them in a format very similar to Weechat logs. Source code (Rust) Binary release (x86_64 windows & linux) Please open issues if encounter any bug or need specific features.\nAlso I'm new to rust, so any review / advice would be appreciated :)

Matrique client progress

Black Hat has been working on Matrique, and it's looking really good! Screenshot below.

Matrique now has support for sending/receiving messages (plaintext, markdown, HTML, rainbow), emotes and notices. It also supports receiving images, videos, files and states. I am still working on file receiving functions.

I love that all clients include rainbow messages.

fluffychat for Ubuntu Touch

New to me, fluffychat is a "Simple Matrix Messenger for Ubuntu Touch". The design philosophy for this app is focused on simplicity, and the hope is for it to complement uMatriks, another Ubuntu Touch client.

Why are you not just contributing to uMatriks? uMatriks is great and it's superb, that someone has created a Matrix Client for Ubuntu Touch. But sometimes you have a so detailed vision of a user interface, which you want to implement, that you can not just contribute to an existing project. However, I would like to work with the uMatriks developers together. We could use the same push gateway for example.

Riot/Web

• Welcomed Bruno onto the Riot/Web team! (and said farewell to Luke)
• Lots of bug blitzing
• Riot 0.16 due next week, with Jitsi-everywhere (at last) and Slate for composer.
• We now have an end-to-end test harness (via puppeteer!) at last - being applied at first to fix onboarding bugs.
• Lazy loading members in progress

Riot/Mobile

• Major perf work ongoing
• Decoupling members from state…
• …and then lazyloading members.

Synapse 0.32.2 available

v0.32.2 is now available, which includes the m.room.server_acl security feature discussed in a previous blog post.

• If you're not running 0.32, please upgrade!!
• Python 3 progresses!
• Quite a lot of ops work to keep matrix.org alive. Status page coming soon! (We promise!!)
• Looking at metrics and quotas for better experiences on limited-resource homeservers.

Spec

• State res fix
• Version bump
• Lots of omission PRs landing
• TravisR S2S work
• Work on both IS & AS API too
• Uhoreg work - .well-known, and 3pid logins
• Some internal discussions about improving the proposal process; particularly having a 5 day 'final comment period' similar to Rust's. Once we've got alignment within the core spec team we'll MSC it.

Dendrite

• Anoa & APwhitehat continue to blitz onwards on AS and federation
• thirdparty protocol support for application services in the works.
• continued progress on getting the AS query APIs supported. PR for /alias still being reviewed, PR for /users happened this week and now being reviewed
• Timestamp massaging for application services ready and in review
• APWhiteHat did a good chunk on federation, now migrating to supporting the various EDUs, starting with m.typing events.
• …running out of low hanging fruit…

AS

• matrix-appservice-irc 0.9.1 is here with perf improvements!
• Lots of work on trying to make it start up sooner

E2E

• UISI stats
• Device list syncing
• Encrypted backup

Debian Packages

andrewsh has packaged synapse 0.32.2 for Debian

uhoreg has packaged quaternion 0.0.9.2 for Debian

That's all folks

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