This Week in Matrix 2026-04-24

🔗Matrix Live S12E07 - Element Demos

🔗Dept of Status of Matrix 🌡️

🔗Governing Board (website)

The Governing Board is an advisory board to the Matrix.org Foundation and with elected representatives from all across the Matrix ecosystem.

Gwmngilfen announces

Hello folks, it's time for another board report! Another 6 months have passed (well, slightly less to align better with the elections), and the Board came together last week to go over the Committee reports and discuss urgent topics. You can find the details, and my conclusions, in the blog post, and of course we welcome feedback, questions, etc which you can direct to #governing-board-office:matrix.org

For those new to the Board's activities, you can find out more about our structure, Committees, and Working Groups on the Matrix website - and as always I'll take any chance to remind the community that new Working Group proposals are always welcome, just get in touch

Thanks!

🔗Dept of Events and Talks 🗣️

Yan 't' Minagawa reports

🔗Matrix Community Summit 2026

We've tidied up the ticket shop at tickets.matrix-community.events/mcs/2026/ and added some fabulous Summit 2026 merch:

• Bath Robe — 9 colours. Because nothing says "I have my life together" like showing up wrapped in a bath robe.
• T-Shirt — Straight or Fitted cut, Mid Blue or Charcoal. 180 g/m² combed organic cotton, fair and sustainably produced.
• Bath Towel — 9 colours, 100 × 180 cm. A towel is about the most massively useful thing any interstellar hitchhiker can have.

Merch order deadline: 28 April 2026. Merch is picked up in person at the Summit in Berlin — after that date the merch shop closes, so don't sit on it.

Tickets are still available well beyond that date. We've decided to rent additional rooftop gallery space for workshops on MLS, widgets, Matrix RTC, AI topics, and more — so even if you miss the merch window, there is still plenty of room to join us in Berlin.

And while you're there: there are still sponsor tickets left. If your org has been thinking about backing the Summit, now is a very fine moment to press that button — the community notices, and it directly funds the event (and, apparently, some extra rooftop real estate).

Don't Panic. And don't forget your towel.

#mcs26-general:datanauten.de | #mcs26-orga:datanauten.de | #matrix-community-summit-berlin-2026:datanauten.de | website | tickets | sessions | video-call-saturdays-6pm-cet

🔗Dept of Working Groups 💪

🔗Events Working Group (website)

The Events Working Group is the main organising team of the official events hosted by the Foundation.

HarHarLinks reports

At the Events Working Group we are busy as ever organising The Matrix Conference 2026 in Malmö, but that can't stop us from doing even more stuff in parallel!

Thanks to weeman and the Website & Content WG you can now not just watch all the 2025 conference talks on demand, both on YouTube and media.ccc.de, not just view the slides alongside them, not just filter to browse by conference track, but finally it is now also possible to share you favorite conference talk to a friend using a direct link, just like this: https://2025.matrix.org/watch/#governing-board-transparency-update - it even gets a sweet rainbow border to highlight the talk in the row! Simply click the ⛓️ icon as you browse and copy the address from your browser, boom, ready to share and light up the 🌈! We hope this makes waiting for #MatrixConf 2026 more fun, spread the word about your fav talk, and of course don't forget to answer the CfP for this year!

Meanwhile you have probably noticed there are a lot of events about Matrix going on, with Stammtische meetups all over Germany, Matrix Community Summit, Hackathons, not to mention The Matrix Conference. Thanks to evlli we have started the Meetups and Conference Space inside #community:matrix.org as a way to browse and explore what events are going on and directly hopping into a chat with them. If you're hosting an event that you think would benefit from appearing there: check out the process and policy and contact us!

You think all this sounds like fun stuff to do? Working Groups are always looking for more members to support the Foundation, and new Working Group suggestions are welcome as well. 💪 Browse here and simply reach out via the linked contact details.

🔗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:

• MSC4454: Deprecating Spoiler Fallback In Media Repository
• MSC4453: Deprecate old room versions
• MSC4452: Preview URL capabilities API

MSCs in Final Comment Period:

• MSC4421: Standardize the spec on US English (close)
  • FCP close was called on this MSC after the SCT concluded that we needed a more nuanced approach. See this comment for the summary.

Accepted MSCs:

• No MSCs were accepted this week.

Closed MSCs:

• MSC3013: Encrypted Push
  • Superseded by MSC4174: Web Push

🔗Dept of Clients 📱

🔗tacit (website)

Dominik [m] announces

Tacit is a Matrix messenger that I currently develop as a weekend project for some friends and me.
It is a fork of Tammy.

I intentionally chose to fork Tammy instead of starting from scratch, because Tammy and the underlying trixnity-messenger are designed to be extended.
This also allows Tacit to stay close to upstream and benefit from new Tammy features and improvements over time :)

Tacit is currently in an alpha stage. There are still rough edges and ongoing changes, but it is already usable (thanks to Tammy).

The current focus of Tacit is:

• a desktop-first Matrix client
• a simple and clean UI (whatever that means to me 😀)
• simple space handling: no hierarchy of spaces, just a spaces for grouping of channels
• emoji autocompletion while typing (I really need this feature :))

If you want to get a first impression of Tacit, you can find the project page here:
https://fuchss.org/projects/tacit/

🔗Element X iOS (website)

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

Doug reports

This week we released the RC for version 26.04.2 to TestFlight which should land on the App Store on Monday following testing. This version includes:

• Signing into the app is significantly faster for users coming from Element Classic. Make sure your device is Verified and you have Secure Backup enabled for a super smooth onboarding experience complete with seamless device verification.
• The app is now fully-aware of Voice calls throughout the UI and brings some improvements both for starting and joining calls.
• When viewing Media files, long Captions are now scrollable instead of being truncated (thanks to bxdxnn for the contribution).

Additionally the team has been iterating on Live Location Sharing adding support for a reduced accuracy mode and plenty of final polish.

🔗Element X Android (website)

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

Jorge reports

This week we got some good news to share again:

• ⌛️ Room history sharing is considered stable now, so it will be enabled by default in future versions of the apps. What this means is, if in an encrypted room you enable the 'full history' option for other members, they will get all the keys they need to see the past history of the room automatically when joining the room.
• 🕸️ We have added a new feature flag (disabled by default) to paginate back in your rooms automatically so we can track the current state of the rooms better, which should result in more reliable unread indicators for rooms and will help to implement room search in the future.
• 📲 The VOIP team also implemented some improvements to the Element Call integration on Element X and we now have better support for audio device changes and a better user experience in the timeline for active room calls, as well as some improvements to user interface when using your devices in landscape mode.
• 📍 Live location sharing is still in progress and should be close to being finished.
• 🤖 We are working on improving the support for service members and how they interact with DMs.
• 🖌️ The team is working on improving the accessibility and user experience of the app too!

And we want to thank all the external contributors who are actively helping to improve the Element X apps. We are grateful for the contributions and we thank you for your patience during the review process 🙏 .

🔗Dept of Ops 🛠

🔗terraform-provider-matrix (website)

raspbeguy says

Hey folks! 🎉 I've just published v0.1.1 of a Terraform / OpenTofu provider that manages Matrix rooms, spaces, membership, power levels, aliases, and arbitrary state events — all from a regular user account, no admin API needed. Describe your Matrix world in HCL, run tofu apply, done. No more clicking through a client to set up ten rooms the same way. 🛠️

The resources cover the 90% case: creating rooms and spaces, inviting/kicking/banning members idempotently, tuning power levels, linking child rooms under a parent space, and an escape-hatch matrix_room_state resource for anything else. Every resource supports tofu import so you can adopt existing rooms without recreating them.

It's brand new and rough edges are likely — I'd love for you to try it on a disposable account and tell me where it falls over! 🐛 All feedback welcome, either as GitHub issues or by pinging me on Matrix. ✨

Source: https://github.com/raspbeguy/terraform-provider-matrix Terraform registry: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/raspbeguy/matrix/latest OpenTofu registry https://search.opentofu.org/provider/raspbeguy/matrix/latest Contact: @raspbeguy:gugod.fr

🔗Matrix in the News 📰

Nico says

Several Matrix based public sector projects were recently mentioned by TLDR News EU (Youtube) (Nebula) in the context of sovereignty of messaging for governments.

🔗Matrix Federation Stats 📊

Aine [etke.cc] announces

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

As of today, 19296 Matrix federateable servers have been discovered by matrixrooms.info, 4314 (22.4%) of them are publishing their rooms directory over federation. The published directories contain 19292 rooms.

The most popular server software among the online servers is:

• synapse: 15380 (79.7%)
• continuwuity: 1441 (7.5%)
• conduit: 622 (3.2%)
• dendrite: 363 (1.9%)

Stats timeline is available on 📊 MatrixRooms.info/stats

🧩 Integrations with apps and servers | 💜 Support the project | 👉 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	raccoon.cafe	179
2	elisaado.com	261
3	beeper.com	309.5
4	prisma.moe	354.5
5	maunium.net	365
6	31a05b.net	377
7	nhjkl.com	379
8	foxwitch.net	388
9	vmd1.dev	453.5
10	calitabby.net	466

🔗That's all I know

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