This Week in Matrix 2025-10-10

🔗Dept of Social Good 🙆

Denise announces

Element has joined other European organisations in an open letter to European leaders on the latest developments regarding Chat Control.

We are concerned that the Danish Presidency’s current proposal on the Regulation for Child Sexual Abuse could introduce backdoors and client-side scanning, creating risks for security, innovation and digital sovereignty in Europe.

We urge European leaders to ensure that any approach protects encryption, privacy, and the trust that underpins Europe’s digital ecosystem.

https://element.io/blog/element-signs-chat-control-open-letter/

🔗Dept of Pub Quiz 🍻

The one with the braid (she/her) ⚡ reports

We're looking for interesting questions around [matrix], its history, its technology, statistics and fun facts for The Matrix Unconference Pub [quizzz] !

Do you have suggestions ? Please share them with the conference team in the following form : https://forms.gle/6tbry4Zdzb1fYVfx5 or contact us at #events-wg:matrix.org

🔗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:

• There were no new MSCs this week.

MSCs in Final Comment Period:

• MSC4312: Resetting cross-signing keys in the OAuth world (merge)
• MSC4190: Device management for application services (merge)

Accepted MSCs:

• MSC4326: Device masquerading for appservices

Closed MSCs:

• No MSCs were closed/rejected this week.

🔗Spec Updates

The team continues to work on MSCs related to Matrix 2.0. While the list still looks long, two MSCs are currently in FCP, with MSC4153 having finished it! There's plenty of implementation work happening in the sidelines as well.

Overall it's really nice to see movement on these proposals - some quite large and complex - after so long.

🔗Dept of Trust & Safety ⚖️

🔗Draupnir (website)

A moderation bot for open Matrix communities.

Gnuxie 💜🐝 reports

Draupnir has released v2.7.0. This release includes a small enhancement to redactions, stopgap support for being prompted of watched policy room replacement, and a draupnir news feature to keep users informed about project updates.

We're also currently in the process of developing a sustainable governance model for the project that we expect to trial soon. Progress can be tracked here and the initial governance documentation can be read on our documentation website.

See you in #draupnir:matrix.org

🔗Dept of Servers 🏢

🔗Synapse (website)

Synapse is a Matrix homeserver implementation developed by Element.

Andrew Morgan (anoa) {he/him} says

Synapse 1.139.2 and 1.138.4 both released this week with a high-severity security fix for CVE-2025-61672 / GHSA-fh66-fcv5-jjfr. Please update if you haven't already!

Most deployments should prefer 1.139.2. 1.138.4 is provided in case you need to stay on 1.138 for any reason.

🔗Dept of Bridges 🌉

tulir says

🔗mautrix-zulip

I made a basic puppeting Zulip bridge https://github.com/mautrix/zulip

🔗matrix-hookshot (website)

A multi purpose multi platform bridge, connecting to GitHub, GitLab, Jira, Webhooks and more.

Half-Shot says

matrix-hookshot 7.2.0

Hi there folks. Just a smaller release today to make sure we remain compatible with the ecosystem (especially around MSC4190 / MAS support).

• Add configuration option for generic webhooks to configure maximum request body size limit, increase default to 1mb from default 100kb. (#1090)
• Fix a bug where users may fail to be registered with a IO.ELEMENT.MSC4190.M_APPSERVICE_LOGIN_UNSUPPORTED error when MSC4190 is enabled on the homeserver. (#522) (#1092)

come and get it here and come talk to us in #hookshot:half-shot.uk if you have any issues!

P.S. Docker is messing me around, so container images are slightly delayed.

🔗Dept of Clients 📱

🔗Element X iOS (website)

A total rewrite of Element iOS using the Matrix Rust SDK underneath and targeting devices running iOS 17+.

Mauro Romito reports

• A new RC has been sent for verification which includes the following features:
  • Spaces (browse only)
  • Liquid glass support
  • The labs section, which will make testing experimental features easier, as of right now the only experimental feature in labs is Threads
• Spaces and Threads work is still going we are now working on managing and creating new spaces, and improving the current UX for Threads.
• We started investigating how to automatically perform a verification using existing classic Element data, will probably take a while before a full implementation, but will allow users to automatically verify EX using their existing installation of classic Element.

🔗Element X Android (website)

Android Matrix messenger application using the Matrix Rust SDK and Jetpack Compose.

Benoit reports

• We've just submitted the release 25.10.0 on the PlayStore including a read only access to your Spaces. Note that your account must have joined at least one Space for the new tab with Spaces to be displayed. You can now view your existing Spaces, navigate through the Spaces hierarchy, and leave Spaces. More functionalities will come in the next releases.
• The release also includes a new labs section, which will make testing experimental features easier. It has one item as the moment: Threads, which was previously a hidden Feature Flag. When enabled the messages in thread are rendered in a dedicated timeline, as per Element Web and Element Classic.
• A change in the reaction: your recently used Emojis (across all Element clients and other Matrix clients that support this feature) are now displayed when you long click on a message (you can scroll the row of Emojis) and in a new tab in the screen displayed when you click on "other Emoji".
• Notifications have been updated, to play the sound than Element Web and Element X iOS.
• Besides that, a lot of dependency updates, bug fixes and improvements, in order to always offer the best user experience!
• Final note: we are seeing very interesting pull requests coming from the community: one is about being able to render a video playback while double tasking (https://github.com/element-hq/element-x-android/pull/5423), and another about being able to change the playback speed of voice messages (https://github.com/element-hq/element-x-android/pull/5504). They are both in review. Thanks for the contributions!

🔗Dept of Ops 🛠️

🔗matrix-docker-ansible-deploy (website)

Slavi announces

matrix-docker-ansible-deploy now supports Element Admin - a new web-based administration panel for Synapse and Matrix Authentication Service.

Learn more in our changelog entry!

🔗Dept of Events and Talks 🗣️

🔗The Matrix Conference (website) Call for Slides

HarHarLinks reports

We are as excited as busy that The Matrix Conference 2025 starts next week! It will take place in person in Strasbourg, France 🥖. To make it as accessible as possible for everyone, the talks from all 3 stages are going to be recorded and streamed live via https://conference.matrix.org/! Beyond that, Q&A will not be limited to those present but also through the chat rooms of the Conference Matrix Space: #matrix-conference-2025:matrix.org.

There will be a bit of downtime on the projectors and stream between talks, and we want to fill it with your community contributions - you might remember this concept from last year! Send us a slide about your Matrix project for a chance to have it appear on stream during a break! Slides should be 1920x1080 pixels large pictures or videos up to 10 seconds long and can be submitted via https://infobeamer.c3voc.de/ (thank you C3VOC!) starting Tuesday (2025-10-14 00:00:00 UTC). The conference media team reserves the right to select or reject submissions as deemed appropriate - this space is intended to focus on projects and community, if you'd like to advertise your business, please check our sponsoring options.

Here are some example slides from the Foundation:

Until next week, live from Strasbourg!

Your Events Working Group #events-wg:matrix.org

🔗Matrix Community Summit 2026 hosted at c-base, Berlin

Yan reports

Last week, the circle of c-base decided to host the Matrix Community Summit 2026 for the Matrix community. If your organization, university, group, or network wants to participate, organize, join, or help shape the event, now is the moment to jump in.

We tested a concept in 2025 combining coworking, hands-on sessions, daytime bug hunts, brainstorming, philosophical discussion, DJ sets, and social experiments conducted in a federated, side-by-side model. In 2026, we want to expand that: more collaboration, more variety, more voices.

Join us in the Matrix room https://matrix.to/#/#mcs26-orga:datanauten.de to connect, propose, or volunteer. A barcamp session at the Matrix Conference in Strasbourg will also help align ideas.

Save the date: 22–25 May 2026 (Pentecost weekend). We’ve made arrangements with c-base for the coming years so that future Summits can reliably fall on every Pentecost weekend in Berlin.

Please help spread this announcement and invite people who care about Matrix.

Yan - from the MCS26 Organizing Team

🔗Matrix Federation Stats

Aine [etke.cc] announces

collected by MatrixRooms.info - an MRS instance by etke.cc

As of today, 10658 Matrix federateable servers have been discovered by matrixrooms.info, 3037 (28.5%) of them are publishing their rooms directory over federation. The published directories contain 18007 rooms.

The most popular server software among the online servers is:

• synapse: 9235 (86.6%)
• conduit: 417 (3.9%)
• dendrite: 377 (3.5%)
• continuwuity: 248 (2.3%)
• tuwunel: 218 (2.0%)

Stats timeline is available on MatrixRooms.info/stats

How to add your server | How to remove your server

🔗Dept of Ping

Here we reveal, rank, and applaud the homeservers with the lowest ping, as measured by pingbot, a maubot that you can host on your own server.

🔗#ping:maunium.net

Join #ping:maunium.net to experience the fun live, and to find out how to add YOUR server to the game.

Rank	Hostname	Median MS
1	continuwuity.codestorm.net	153
2	usbpc.xyz	161
3	codestorm.net	178
4	vibb.me	190.5
5	nexy7574.co.uk	198.5
6	synapse.nexy7574.co.uk	222
7	haise.uk	234
8	gingershaped.computer	266
9	wolfspyre.io	266.5
10	tomfos.tr	274

🔗That's all I know

See you next week, and be sure to stop by #twim:matrix.org with your updates!

To learn more about how to prepare an entry for TWIM check out the TWIM guide.