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Well here you are then, the 9th episode in the Synapse 0.33.x series. Features wise, 0.33.9 contains a change to the way that GDPR consent works under the hood. It is now plumbed in to the login flow (rather than following immediately afterwards) such that it does not inadvertently break on-boarding. This is part of […]

Matrix Live S3E04 This week we continue Matrix Live Season 3 by talking to community member axx, Axel Simon from La Quadrature du Net, a French advocacy group that promotes digital rights and freedoms of citizens. We talk about the work La Quadrature du Net do, with a focus on the importance of decentralisation and […]

Matrix Live We continue the new format for Matrix Live season 3 by chatting with Francois from New Vector, to get a sneak preview of the work he’s doing on a new version of matrix-android-sdk, and how that will impact Riot: Dendrite and Brendan Welcome to Brendan, who has started working on Dendrite as his new […]

The Matrix.org Foundation This week, the first steps were taken in the creation of the Matrix Foundation! Read our blog post from earlier this week for more: in preparation for the upcoming Matrix 1.0 release, we’ve been moving ahead with the rest of the open governance plan – and we’re happy to announce that as […]

It's been a long-standing goal to enable end-to-end encryption by default for private communication in Matrix. Today, instead I'd like to focus on some of the User Experience challenges and goals we're facing.

Wowzers – our 8th dot release for v0.33! This time we have a bunch of bug fixes and db performance improvements as well as better support for auto-join rooms and the ability for admins to limit who can create rooms aliases. v0.33.8 also contains more python 3 fixes: we are running most of matrix.org on […]

Hi all, Back in June we blogged about the plan of action to establish a formal open governance system for the Matrix protocol: introducing both the idea of the Spec Core Team to act as the neutral technical custodian of the Matrix Spec, as well as confirming the plan to incorporate the Matrix.org Foundation to […]

We have a LOT of updates this week, so let’s dive straight in! matrix-docker-ansible-deploy We’ve covered the growth of this project several times in TWIM, but I wanted to give a little more attention to the work Slavi has been doing with matrix-docker-ansible-deploy. Synapse is a large Python project with many configurable options, and many […]

Olm 3.0.0 has been released, which features several big changes. It can be downloaded from https://git.matrix.org/git/olm/. The npm package for JavaScript can be downloaded from https://matrix.org/packages/npm/olm/olm-3.0.0.tgz Python The biggest ... [More] change is the merge of poljar’s improved Python bindings. These bindings should be much easier to use for Python programmers, and are used by Zil0’s E2E support […] [Less]

Hi folks, Today is one of those pivotal days for the Matrix ecosystem: we’re incredibly excited to announce that the world’s first ever dedicated homeserver hosting service is now fully available over at https://modular.im!  This really is a massive step for Matrix towards being a mature ecosystem, and we look forward to Modular being the […]