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Spec Updates! First of all: we’ve just released the first draft of the proposal for our next generation State Resolution algorithm as MSC1442 (State Resolution: Reloaded).  This is the result of a massive amount of work from Erik – if you are at all interested in the problems that state resets have plagued us with, then […]

Hi all, We’ve just released Synapse 0.33.0!  This is a major performance upgrade which speeds up /sync (i.e. receiving messages) by a factor of almost 2x!  This has already made a massive difference to the CPU usage and snappiness of the matrix.org homeserver since we rolled it out a few days ago – you can […]

Welcome to TWIM for Friday the 13th! Nothing too scary, but lots of client updates and news. Quaternion kitsune: Quaternion has gained a new /html command that allows one to send raw HTML. Note that an actually displayed HTML subset entirely depends on the receiving client; no HTML validation or sanitation is done; a plaintext […]

Folks, Synapse 0.32.0 is an important security update: please upgrade as soon as you can. The release focuses on security; fixing several federation bugs and adding new features for countering abuse. Notably it includes the ability to blacklist & whitelist servers allowed to send events to a room on a per-room basis via the new […]

matrix-synapse for Docker and k8s Ananace has been working on configuration files for Synapse: So now the K8s stuff has configuration examples for Synapse + Riot + mxisd + coturn, all runnable on your very own Kubernetes cluster – though with some manual tinkering required at the moment. I’ve updated the Kubernetes configuration examples to […]

Welcome Welcome to This Week in Matrix, let’s see what updates the community has to offer this week! koma Announcing his update nearly a week ago, radicus released v0.7.3 of koma. There have been quite some changes since updates of the project were last posted, but the major ones are: Upgrade to JavaFx 9 Experimental […]

[Ben is away today, so this week’s edition is compiled again by Matthew] libQMatrixClient 0.3.0.2 and Quaternion 0.0.9.2 kitsune writes: libQMatrixClient 0.3.0.2 has been released – no new features, just small fixes including one for an unlucky typo ... [More] preventing 0.3.0.1 from generating .cpp files with GTAD. Quaternion 0.0.9.2 is out, another step towards 0.1. Aside […] [Less]

Hi all, Since we created Matrix.org back in 2014, the majority of the Matrix core team has worked for the same company – originally subsidiaries of Amdocs, and then since August 2017 for New Vector; the startup we incorporated to rehire the core team and support Matrix after we parted ways from Amdocs. Despite working […]

[Ben is out this week, so this week’s TWIM has been hastily assembled without the usual love and care by Matthew instead] TravisR joins the core team! First off: we’re super-excited to announce that TravisR is joining the core team on July 3rd, hired to work fulltime on maintaining the Matrix spec and improving Riot/Web […]

Hi all, On Monday (2018-06-11) we had an incident where #matrix:matrix.org was hijacked by a malicious user pretending to join the room immediately after its creation in 2014 and then setting an m.room.power_levels event ‘before’ the correct initial ... [More] power_level for the room. Under normal circumstances this should be impossible because the initial m.room.power_levels for a […] [Less]