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Hi all, It’s that time again where we break out the mince pies and brandy butter (at least for those of us in the UK) and look back on the year to see how far Matrix has come, as well as anticipate what 2019 may bring! Overview It’s fair to say that 2018 has been […]

Matrix Live: Half-Shot talks bridges, and working on libpurple bridging to Matrix You may have seen that Half-Shot been working fearlessly and tirelessly on bridges for many, many months. In this episode of Matrix Live Half-Shot chats with Matthew ... [More] about his work, progress and achievements, with a focus on recent matrix-appservice-purple and XMPP work. Audio is […] [Less]

Matrix’s reference homeserver, Synapse, is written in Python and uses the Twisted networking framework to power its bitslinging across the Internet. The Python version used has been strictly Python 2.7, the last supported version of Python 2, but as ... [More] of this week that changes! Since Twisted and our other upstream dependencies now support the newest […] [Less]

Folks this is a big day for us at Matrix Towers, because today we release 0.34.0. The big news for 0.34.0 is that we now recommend Python 3 for production use and have been running matrix.org under Python 3 for the past month. Performance improvements have been marked, in some contexts we have seen 50% […]

Fractal Hackfest Developers and creators of Fractal, the GNOME Matrix client, have been holding a Hackfest this week in Seville. Matthew and I caught up with them on video for Matrix Live this week, and discussed the product improvements they’ve been making and their plans for the next release (due next week!) Matrix Spec MSC1466 […]

Matrix Live Purism sponsoring Fractal development We are proudly sponsoring the work of Julian Sparber on Fractal, the @matrixdotorg client for GNOME. Read his latest update – https://t.co/q4ubjzETxC #LibreDesktop #DemandFreedom #gnome — Purism ... [More] (@Puri_sm) December 5, 2018 Purism announced they are sponsoring Fractal development, starting with Julian Sparber working last month to improve the message […] [Less]

Matrix Live S03E06 In which Matthew & Amandine discuss The Matrix.org Foundation, go-live for the French Government deployment for Matrix, and some exciting random diversions into post-1.0 Matrix features which should land once once 1.0 is out ... [More] the door! Purism sponsoring Fractal development We are proudly sponsoring the work of Julian Sparber on Fractal, the […] [Less]

Purism sponsoring Fractal development We are proudly sponsoring the work of Julian Sparber on Fractal, the @matrixdotorg client for GNOME. Read his latest update – https://t.co/q4ubjzETxC #LibreDesktop #DemandFreedom #gnome — Purism (@Puri_sm) ... [More] December 5, 2018 Purism announced they are sponsoring Fractal development, starting with Julian Sparber working last month to improve the message view. You […] [Less]

Porting to Python 3 – Matrix Live S3E5 Longer than usual episode of Matrix Live this week. Amber talks to Neil about the works she’s been doing over the last few months to port Synapse from Python 2 to Python 3. Recommended for anyone who’s been following along the progress of Synapse, or who wants […]

A little delay to the release of this week’s TWIM, expect us to resume normal schedule on Friday. Spec & Foundation Two workshops happened with the Foundation lawyers to work on MSC1318 – basically fleshing out a proposal for the details of the foundation governance in terms of how the Guardians (i.e. directors of the […]