This Week in Matrix

🔗Matrix Live S12E06 – Foundation Updates

🔗Dept of Events and Talks 🗣️

🔗Matrix Community Summit 2026 (website)

HarHarLinks says

Matrix Community Summit is a yearly meetup around pentecost by the community for the community, where Matrix hackers, developers, and visionaries meet on the c-base space station under Berlin for multiple days to collaborate on Matrix. This year it starts on Thursday 21st May and ends on Monday 25th May. If some of that is during your work hours, do not worry! It is the same for us, which is why co-working is part of the concept. For the first time, we will also have both a rooftop experience and a pan-galactic gargleblaster contest.

• sign up for a (free) ticket or help cover the breakfast cost by sponsoring at https://tickets.matrix-community.events/mcs/2026/
• order mind-blowing merch nownownow! - since that is produced by order only - at https://tickets.matrix-community.events/mcs/2026/
• send proposals to the CfP at https://openki.matrix-community.events/ and declare your interest in existing sessions
• join the chat/space #matrix-community-summit-berlin-2026:datanauten.de
• join the orga at #mcs26-orga:datanauten.de
• spread the word!

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🔗Matrix Live S12E05 – Smooth room upgrades and better notifications in Trixnity

🔗Dept of Events and Talks 🗣️

Thib announces

Heads-up that The Matrix Conference 2026 will be in Malmö, Sweden, on Tuesday, 20th to Thursday, 22nd October. It will be followed by a hackathon day on Friday, 23rd October!

We will start with a networking event on the 20th afternoon, followed by a welcoming party. We will follow by two core days of conference on Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd October, including two talk tracks and two workshop rooms. Finally, we will conclude with a post-conference hackathon on Friday 23rd October.

Our Call for Proposals is open until 14th June. We already received solid proposals, and we're looking forward to seeing what you will send us!

We want to hear from

• Individuals
• Organisations
• Authors of toys & hacks
• Contributors to sovereignty
• You!

Send your proposals!

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🔗Matrix Live S12E04 – Matrix DMs in Bluesky

🔗Dept of Events and Talks 🗣️

Thib reports

It was an open secret, but it's finally out in the open: we will gather for The Matrix Conference 2026 between 20th and 23rd October in Malmö, Sweden!

Our Call for Proposals is open, and we want to hear from you!

We're looking for proposals from:

• Individuals innovating around Matrix
• Organisations working with Matrix in any context
• Authors of toy projects, hacks, and experiments worth sharing
• Anyone contributing to digital sovereignty
• You!

Read the full announcement here, and we're looking forward to seeing you in person in October 🥳

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🔗Matrix Live S12E03 – How hard can it be?

🔗Dept of Status of Matrix 🌡️

Amandine reports

🥁 The Matrix.org Foundation has published its first Public Annual Report! 📊

This report gathers useful information for a very wide group of users, starting with the current community but also others who may not know Matrix very well. Overall, the goal is to remind everyone what the Foundation is and why it exists, share the progress in the last financial year, explain how our funds have been used, give an overview of our finances and eventually provide a preview of our plan for 2026.

You can find the blog here and the report itself here. We hope you will find it a useful read! ☕️

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🔗Matrix Live S12E02 – Matrix Community Events

🔗Dept of Events and Talks 🗣️

🔗MSC26 CFP Reminder (2 months 2 go)

Yan 't' Minagawa reports

As promised in Matrix Live (see above): Here are some relevant links for the matrix community summit!

Participate in MCS26: 21th-25th of May at c-base, get your tickets, and join our space and read last weeks announcement.

🔗Matrix community is growing with "Matrix Stammtisch Köln"

Michael @matrix says

The first 'Matrix Stammtisch Köln' will take place on 25.03.2026 at 19:00.

We will be meeting on Wednesday, 25 March 2026, starting from 7 pm at the Chaos Computer Club Cologne, Heliosstraße 6A, 50825 Köln-Ehrenfeld. 

Anyone who would like to join us in person is welcome. Curious enough? 

If you can't make it this March, follow the #matrix-stammtisch:koeln.ccc.de room to stay updated.

 Tell your friends and bring them along!

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🔗Matrix Live S12E01 – Updates from Matthew & Amandine

🔗Dept of Status of Matrix 🌡️

🔗Trademark Policy

Denise announces

Today we have announced The Matrix.org Foundation's first trademark policy. You can see all details in the announcement blog post and the policy itself. We have also improved the branding guidelines area of the website and have plans to continue building it out.

Huge thanks to the Website & Content Working Group for their support getting us here! Any questions/suggestions please head over to #matrix-legal:matrix.org or email us.

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🔗Matrix Live S11E24 – URL Previews, and Pushing Secrets

🔗Dept of Status of Matrix 🌡️

🔗Pangea Chat as a new Silver member!

Amandine announces

Join us in welcoming Pangea Chat as the latest Silver member of the Foundation! Pangea uses Matrix as the basis for their language learning via instant messaging app 🌍️ We love being part of an initiative spreading knowledge and build links between people 👏

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🔗Matrix Live S11E23 - Multi-tenancy and an audit of ESS

🔗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:

• MSC4427: Custom banners for user profiles
• MSC4426: User Status Profile Fields
• MSC4425: Ephemeral media

MSCs in Final Comment Period:

• No MSCs are in FCP.

Accepted MSCs:

• MSC4376: Remove /v1/send_join and /v1/send_leave
• MSC4341: Support for RFC 8628 Device Authorization Grant
• MSC4284: Policy Servers

Closed MSCs:

• [WIP] Placeholder

🔗Spec Updates

This week a number of MSCs were accepted. One notable entry is MSC4284: Policy Servers, which is a huge step forwards for moderation on Matrix.

In essence, while moderation is typically reactive in Matrix today - where someone posts spam and a bot catches it 5-10 seconds later - this MSC shifts it to be proactive. An event isn't sent into the room, or accepted by other homeservers, until it's run by a policy server.

And it doesn't stop there. Other MSCs are now building on top of policy servers to add more proactive moderation to Matrix. Hopefully the days of (briefly) seeing spam on Matrix is coming to a close. Huge thanks to the folks working to keep the public federation safe.

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🔗Matrix Live S11E22 – WebAuthn in MAS

🔗Dept of Status of Matrix 🌡️

🔗vodozemac (website)

An implementation of Olm and Megolm in pure Rust.

dkasak announces

🔗The Matrix.org Security team publishes analysis of reported vodozemac issues

Following a public disclosure discussing potential cryptographic issues in vodozemac, the Matrix.org Security team published a technical analysis addressing the claims and their impact.

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🔗Matrix Live S11E21 – Commet

🔗Dept of Status of Matrix 🌡️

Matthew announces

We're delighted to welcome the massive influx of users looking for decentralised alternatives to Discord!

We published a post about what to expect, and some clarity on the growing challenges posed by age verification.

Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification

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