This Week in Matrix 2026-05-29

🔗Matrix Live S12E09 – 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.

Amandine says

🗳️ Election notice!

🚥 Only a few hours left before kick-off! The voting for the Governing Board election is starting tonight, and is open until the 12 June. All eligible voters should keep an eye out for an email from OpaVote.

Check out our blog post and election page for details and links to the candidates lists.

📅 This year’s schedule is as follows:
✅ Announcement on Monday 27th April
✅ Nominations from Saturday 2nd May to Friday 15th May
✅ Campaigning from Saturday 16th May to Friday 29th May
➡️ Voting from Saturday 30th May to Friday 12th June
◻️ Results announced on Monday 15th June

📢 The election is running for the following constituency groups:

• Platinum Members – 1 seat (in cycle)
• Ecosystem Members – 3 seats (in cycle)
• Spec Core Team – 2 seats (in cycle)
• Guardians – 3 seats (in cycle)
• Silver Members – 2 seats (out of cycle, GB members stepped down)
• Individual Members – 1 seat (out of cycle, GB member stepped down)

So if you are a member of one of these groups keep an eye out for your voting email or get in touch if you haven't received it by Monday!

🔗Dept of Events and Talks 🗣️

🔗Matrix @ GPN24

HarHarLinks says

Once more it is going to be Goulash Programming Night (actually 3 nights) in Karslruhe, DE next week, from June 4th to June 7th. Look out for the Matrix banner and find like minded Matrix Community Events people as well as all kinds of hackers there!

Join #community-events:matrix.org for more community events and #chaosevents:matrix.org for more Matrix at CCC!

🔗The Matrix Conference 2026

Thib reports

🔗Final days to get an Early Bird ticket for The Matrix Conf 2026

You can get Early Bird tickets for The Matrix Conference with a 20% discount until Sunday 31, in two days as of publishing!

Be quick, grab your tickets and join us between October 20 and 23, in Malmö, Sweden 🇸🇪

🔗Matrix Community Summit 2026/2027

HarHarLinks reports

(thanks to jaller94 for putting this together)

It's been another great Matrix Community Summit in Berlin! Plenty of community members discuss MCSs, exchanged thoughts and socialised.

Missed it or want to listen to some of the talks again? Here are the recordings on PeerTube. This includes Matthew's Matrix Spring Update.

Join us next year at c-base from May 13 until 17, 2027. Signing up early makes planning easier for us. 🙏

https://tickets.matrix-community.events/mcs/2027/

Some aspects people liked:

• keys verified: 3+
• things to do or not to do when writing yet another buggy matrix client
• food and drink 👍
• working groups started: 1.5+
• MSCs written: 2.5+
• great opportunity for the community and companies to talk about eachothers plans and wishes
• sick merch ✨

🔗Matrix Workation Krems 2026

HarHarLinks reports

(even more thanks to jaller94)

And if you don't want to wait, have to work and are keen on sharing a space with others, may I recommend the Matrix Community Workation Krems 2026? It's a two week workation all about Matrix in a great Austrian village with the option to attend the nearby Håck ma's camp. More info and coordination in the Workation Krems Matrix room or contact Yan!

🔗Dept of Spec 📜

Andrew Morgan (anoa) {he/him} 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:

• MSC4484: Server Administration OAuth Scope
• MSC4483: Encrypted Account Data
• MSC4482: Ability to bookmark messages

MSCs in Final Comment Period:

• No MSCs are in FCP.

Accepted MSCs:

• No MSCs were accepted this week.

Closed MSCs:

• MSC4403: Forbid event_id on PDUs received over federation
  • Closed by the author.
• MSC4435: Room slowmode
  • Closed by the author.
• MSC4373: Server opt-out of specific EDU types
  • Closed by the author.
• MSC4400: Remove the depth field from PDUs
  • Closed by the author.

HarHarLinks announces

It has long annoyed me that matrix.to URLs are in the unfortunate situation of being specified following RFC 3986, while Matrix room aliases use # as their "sigil". The nice part is that the fallback in many browsers and probably URL parsers allows someone to type in the literal ID after https://matrix.to/#/ in a human readable/type-able way: https://matrix.to/#/#matrix:matrix.org and it will work. However that does not actually comply with the RFC spec for URLs, which mandates URL-encoding ("percent-encoding") for some special characters, including the #. The practical impact of this is that in some situations, URL parsers my stumble and misinterpret matrix.to URLs. We commonly see this at the Website & Content WG when writing YouTube descriptions: the second "illegal" # will be interpreted as a hashtag instead, breaking the link. I find this particularly annoying as some implementations, including Element and https://matrix.to itself actually prefer to generate "illegal" links. This has been a topic of discussion before, but so far has not been accepted.

Meanwhile, we also have the matrix: URI scheme registered with IANA. Instead of the sigils, it uses letters like r/ for aliases: matrix:r/matrix:matrix.org. So at Matrix Community Summit last weekend, we had the idea to deprecate using sigils in matrix.to fragments altogether and replace them with matrix: URI style word characters. You can find all this packaged as MSC4481 including an implementation for https://matrix.to. Please feel free to test or implement in your own client. Thanks to all involved in the discussion and helping the implementation!

🔗Dept of SDK 🧰

🔗Trixnity (website)

Multiplatform Kotlin SDK for developing Clients, Bots, Appservices and Servers.

Benedict reports

Just wanted to share, that someone used Trixnity for his Car: https://e39.dev/hmi/Matrix/Matrix.html

🔗Dept of Clients 📱

🔗matrix.to

Nico announces

You know how some other applications directly prompt you to open your native/web client, when you click on a link? Matrix has matrix.to, but it always prompts you to click on a button to open your client, even though we have a standardized scheme to do that (matrix: URIs)!

I tried my hand at directly opening your matrix client from the matrix.to page. You can try it out and review it here: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix.to/pull/409

🔗WukkieMail

Joop Kiefte 🟙 (LaPingvino) says

HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL new client on https://mail.wukkie.uk, inspired by the late Google Inbox. Give it a try and let me know!

🔗FluffyChat (website)

The cutest instant messenger in the [matrix].

Krille - Christian K. reports

🚀 FluffyChat 2.6.0 has been released

After my very long vacation here comes the newest release of FluffyChat with a ton of improvements, bug fixes and new features. 🚀

You can now receive notifications for all accounts, which means the multi account feature is no longer marked as beta! Also notifications now get grouped on Android.

On iOS you also now get notifications while the app is in foreground (this wasn't working before). Also in this case, when the app is in foreground you will see the sender name and message content. This is not yet working when the app is in background or terminated, but this will come soon. 😊

Furthermore FluffyChat now supports room tags. Those will just be part of the filters above the chat list. With room tags you can tag a room and then filter the room list by this tag.

Chat filters are also now persistent over app restarts!

On web and desktop you can now also paste files from your clipboard (thanks to ION606 for help).

Also you can now hide rooms, which are in a space from the main chat list, if you like. We now have an option for that. (thanks to twoneis for help).

This release also brings back notification sounds on web, while this stays an opt-in feature. Most desktops (including Windows and macOS) already play a sound on a notification, but on some Linux desktops (including the one I use) you don't. So you can switch a toggle now in the settings to fix it.

A short notice about the donation banner I have added in the last release: I was very worried that people might get upset that a donation banner asks for support there. However, no one complained. Instead I got much more donations than expected and I'm very grateful!! ❤️❤️❤️

I promise I will not waste it on AI tokens! 😜

However, in this release the donation banner has been removed. As a compromise, there will now just be a donation button in the info banner, which informs about a new release. This also pressures me to make releases more frequently, but let me know what you think.

This and a ton of fixed bugs and updated translations, thanks to the big community! I'm looking forward to push the next version out.

See all changes here: https://fluffychat.im/de/changelog/

🔗Dept of VoIP 🤙

🔗Element Call (website)

Native Decentralised End-to-end Encrypted Group Calls in Matrix.

Timo K. announces

Element Call v0.20.0 is out!

The two main things worth calling out: there's a new fast switcher for quickly jumping between media devices, and the one-on-one call layout on portrait screens got a design refresh using all of the available screen space — makes a noticeable difference on mobile.

A few bugs got squashed too — iOS tap-to-reveal controls now actually works, starting a call muted no longer requires two clicks to unmute, and the settings button no longer ghosts in while the footer is fading out.

For those running their own deployments or building on top of Element Call or are interested in the under the hood changes we do: Storybook is hooked up to CI. There's a new MediaMuteAndSwitchButton component to play with and a snapshot based ViewModel experiment introduced with the fast-switcher changes.

Full changelog: https://github.com/element-hq/element-call/releases/tag/v0.20.0

Its available on call.element.io — see the release notes for the exact coordinates.

🔗Matrix Federation Stats 📊

Aine [etke.cc] says

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

As of today, 19380 Matrix federateable servers have been discovered by matrixrooms.info, 4252 (21.9%) of them are publishing their rooms directory over federation. The published directories contain 19063 rooms.

The most popular server software among the online servers is:

• synapse: 15342 (79.2%)
• continuwuity: 1523 (7.9%)
• conduit: 599 (3.1%)
• dendrite: 350 (1.8%)

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.

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	unstable.timedout.uk:8448	158
2	codestorm.net	173
3	raccoon.cafe	180.5
4	vrkknn.net	204
5	vibb.me	228
6	nerdhouse.io	229.5
7	31a05b.net	264
8	maunium.net	281
9	waywardinn.com	372
10	nhjkl.com	374.5

🔗That's all I know

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

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