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Bridges and SDKs Slack Bridge 0.2.0-rc1 Half-Shot, master of the bridge, has been working with Cadair to produce a new RC for bridging Matrix and Slack. We’ve got a Slack RC out at long last! Rejoice! It’s absolutely massive and full of features. Half-Shot even provided this explanation of how it works: Integrations manager > […]

Hey ho, let’s go. Synapse 0.33.7 has arrived. Regular readers will know how close we are to a full python 3 release. We are not quite there yet but 0.33.7 has support for Synapse under worker mode and we’ve running it on matrix.org this week. We need more time to conclusively gauge performance improvements but […]

We have a brand new, exciting guide page offering an introduction to matrix-js-sdk. This guide will live with the documentation at https://matrix.org/docs/guides/usage-of-the-matrix-js-sdk,  but you can find the text below. Matrix allows open ... [More] real-time communications over the Internet using HTTP and JSON. This makes developing clients to connect to Matrix servers really easy! Because it’s open, and uses […] [Less]

Matrix Spec updates MSC1695 Half-Shot has a newly released proposal relating to Message Edits: “The key difference to this proposal is that it’s only the event schema which is based off the relates stuff. It does NOT do any kind of aggregations but simply is a format to allow bridges/clients to specify edits in the […]

Guest post today from Giveth: Giveth is re-engineering charitable giving, by creating an entirely free, open-source platform, built on the Ethereum Blockchain. Our system cuts out bureaucracy and enables nonprofits to create a high level of ... [More] transparency and accountability towards Givers. Giveth’s new chatbot in action! Online or offline, joining a new community always requires some […] [Less]

Bridges Half-Shot is supposedly back at university, but he’s productive enough to have THREE updates this week (delivered in ascending order of interestingness): matrix-appservice-irc 0.11.2: ... [More] https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/releases/tag/0.11.2 is just a hotfix release containing a few things we fixed in develop so yay. matrix-appservice-node v0.3.5: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-node/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v035 is a long overdue update that just updates dependencies so we […] [Less]

Right folks, time for Synapse 0.33.6. These past few weeks we’ve been focusing on fixing a whole host of federation bugs to improve reliability and latency. Additionally we’ve squashed some py3 bugs, improved lazy loading and been working hard in the background to improve our CI infrastructure. Finally, we cleaned up the Docker file, the […]

DSN Traveller If you’ve spent any time using Matrix public rooms, you’ve probably seen the bot DSN Traveller. This is a post-grad project from Florian Jacob, an informatics student at the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology. This week, Florian handed in his thesis on Matrix! In summary, I could show that Matrix has few large but […]

Folks, Synapse 0.33.5.1 is here. 0.33.5.1 is an interesting release. On the one hand it contains the usual bug fixes and performance improvements of a point release, but it also our first versioned release where monolith installs can be run under Python 3.5 and 3.6! Python 3 support is very much in beta, so please […]

Nheko 0.6.0 released! Get latest stable releases from GitHub. Features Support for sending & receiving markdown formatted messages. Import/Export of megolm session keys. (Incompatible with Riot) macOS: The native emoji picker can be used. Context ... [More] menu option to show the raw text message of an event. Rooms with unread messages are marked in the room […] [Less]