This week we continue Matrix Live Season 3 by talking to community member axx, Axel Simon from La Quadrature du Net, a French advocacy group that promotes digital rights and freedoms of citizens. We talk about the work La Quadrature du Net do, with a focus on the importance of decentralisation and how Matrix helps support this.
mxisd v1.2.0 released
Max has been giving updates on the road to mxisd v1.2.0, which was released this week:
A new stable version of mxisd is out: v1.2.0. It comes with:
The ultimate identity store that lets you run any command on the system to fetch info, making it the most generic yet. The sky is now your limit!
The ability to send email notifications about room invites when done using a Matrix ID regardless if their users is already provisioned on synapse, using emails found in an Identity store. Targeted at onboarding/migration to Matrix for any org/corp.
The maubot management UI is now ready, which means you should be able to install, update and configure plugins with just the UI.
matrix-appservice-purple
Half-Shot has been working on important work for his final undergrad year. Just kidding! He's been working on bridges as you'd expect:
I've been working on matrix-appservice-purple, and the community immediately rallied around and helped me get it into shape. We've got automated builds for both the bridge and the libpurple binding modules. In features land, group chats are now working at a basic level and I will be working on supporting profiles next. #purple-bridge:half-shot.uk is now a room where you can tell me why your favorite protocol doesn't work with the bridge. (It's also used for updates.)
A couple of SCS (Specs Changes Submissions) have been merged into the Informo specs, notably SCS #2 which introduces a complete technical description of the network's nodes and their expected behaviour, and SCS #4 which changes the duration of the call for public review period, shrinking it from 14 days to 7 days, in order to speed specs work up while letting a decent amount of time for people to give a look at new SCSs and voice their concerns.
Quaternion
kitsune hasn't been seen for a couple of weeks, but he's been working on Quaternion:
aside from mundane bugfixing, Quaternion's timeline scrolling has been improved in the master branch. Along with that, the native scrollbar can now be used instead of the shuttle scroller that is loved by some and equally hated by some others. Unfortunately, all that work has a side-effect that under some circumstances the timeline backlog is no more loaded. This will be fixed later this week. Together with the ongoing work on refactoring room state cache and lazy-loading this makes Quaternion quite prone to regressions: unless you want to help to iron them out, it's advised to stick with Quaternion 0.0.9.3 and wait for further announcements. By the way, the latest Quaternion release is now available in OpenSUSE Tumbleweed rolling distribution.
Synapse 0.33.9rc1
Synapse has a new release candidate - 0.33.9rc1 - If you'd like to help us test it, you can get it here.
This week in Koma, I have been working on a correct implementation of the user registration process. Currently waiting for a small issue with synapse to get fixed For kotlin programmer who might be interested https://github.com/koma-im/koma/pull/6
f-droid.org has set up a new matrix (synapse) server
f-droid.org has set up a new matrix (synapse) server for internal conversation and to chat in #fdroid:matrix.org , which will obviously also get a :f-droid.org alias.
For now the server is private, only allowing core team members to get an account in order to keep the performance manageable.
An implementation for Push-to-Talk for Jitsi calls in Riot has now been completed and is in the review phase. This was a result of multiple weeks of work, with code changes across many different repositories. Will hopefully make a difference with background noise or many participants. Look forward to seeing it land in /develop sometime shortly! Works with both Scalar and Dimension setups.
Half-Shot: "The events API update for Slack was released on riot.im/develop a little while ago, which let you do more than webhooks could let you do. The UI scalar/integration manager bits were left on /develop for testing but got rolled out to /app this week."
This week I attended TADSummit in Lisbon to tell them about the excellent progress Matrix has been making this year. You can see more details of the conference (plus video) here: http://blog.tadsummit.com/2018/11/16/tadsummit-2018-web3/
That's all I got!
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