💡 Got a story to tell about Matrix? The #MatrixConf 2026 CFP is open! Topics include: Matrix internals, public sector deployments, community, safety, and more. 🗓️ Oct 20-23, 2026 | Malmö, Sweden cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-confe... #DigitalSovereignty #Decentralization #E2EE

The Community Summit this summer, a roadmap for Draupnir, and a Discord-like bot for Matrix. That and more happened This Week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2026/04...

📣 The Call for Proposals for #MatrixConf 2026 is open! Whether you're working on decentralisation, encryption, digital sovereignty, UX, or just built something fun with Matrix, we want to hear from you! 🗓️ Oct 20–23, 2026 | Malmö, Sweden Submit your talk cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-confe...

A new page to Try Matrix, a new client for macOS, and policyserver improvements. That and more happened This Week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2026/04...

A major release of Draupnir, Synapse Admin becoming Ketesa, and a Call for Proposals for the Matrix Conference. That and much more happened Last Week In Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2026/04...

2/ This second part of the talk covers 3. On boarding 4. App features 5. Matrix client use (Element)

Lots of Demos, our first annual report, Matrix spec v1.18 release, MatrixRTC for Trixnity - this and more happened This Week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2026/03...

"Happy to tell you how you can do it!" @amandine.bsky.social DMA Vox Populi Podcast Ep. 3 (PREVIEW) www.youtube.com/shorts/QJIie...

🥁 The Matrix.org Foundation has published its first Public Annual Report! 📊 👀 Have a peek into our day-to-day and check out what we’ve been working on in 2025. It also includes a report of our finances and the plan for 2026! Enjoy! ➡️ The blog: matrix.org/blog/2026/03...

Hey all, another Matrix release is here! Matrix 1.18 brings quite a lot into the protocol, including policy servers, invite blocking, other safety improvements, and 16 total MSCs. Check it out on the blog => matrix.org/blog/2026/03...

💚 Belgium has launched Beam, its nationwide Matrix-based communications platform! 🪧 Digitally sovereign communications need to be adopted sustainably to ensure the success of digital commons. element.io/blog/governm...

A governance WG meeting, breaking changes upcoming in Draupnir, more polish for the Nexus client... That and much more happened This Week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2026/03...

Last day to respond to the Sovereign Tech Agency Survey on Standards Engagement! Open standards are key to a digitally sovereign future, we need ways to support the contributors and maintainers building them. Time to share your experience with the STA! ➡️ survey.sovereigntechfund.de/999999

Rappler rolled out our matrix protocol chat app in 2023. In 2025, up to 65 news groups joined a shared reality: public chat rooms to strengthen local journalism. Sick of insidious manipulation of Big Tech? Join us! rappler.com/about/specia... via @rappler.com.web.brid.gy #ReclaimOurRights

Pangea Chat as a new Silver Member, 3 new Project Hydra MSCs and a big Element Call update! This and more happened This Week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2026/03...

Check out @edouard.paris’s new @matrix.org powered server the atproto community in France @atproto.fr You can use your atproto account to login.

Inviting by link, splitting the costs of anything from dinner to your whole workation, and speeding up Element X Android - this and more happened This Week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2026/02...

Our analysis of reported issues in vodozemac: matrix.org/blog/2026/02...

hey look, a thoughtful and honest communication from @matrix.org on the nuances and challenges of age verification since a bunch of people moved from discord! matrix.org/blog/2026/02...

We're delighted to welcome the massive influx of users looking for decentralised alternatives to Discord! Here's what to expect, and some clarity on the growing challenges posed by age verification. matrix.org/blog/2026/02...

Hm, did something happen over at Discord?

🎤 Missed Amandine Le Pape and Matthew Hodgson’s talk “Matrix state of the Union” at FOSDEM? 🚀 From real-world deployments and recent ecosystem updates, to why the European Commission recommends Matrix, they give a clear snapshot of where Matrix is today www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Keu...

For our v1.0 release, @discord.com has pulled the open source version back internally and is running 100% of their production traffic through Osprey while @safety.bsky.app has been running it in production since v0.1. @matrix.org is getting ready for their own Osprey deployment.

It's time for the mission report, let's start the YouTube LiveStream! www.youtube.com/live/U_Ydrcr...

Time is up for our hackathon! Our mighty teams have successfully hacked their way towards the Matrix Caps! We'll start live streaming the results in a few minutes! www.youtube.com/live/U_Ydrcr...

QuadRadical ismaking steady progress on Nexus, MatMaul is hooking encrypted search into Element X... the prototypes are polishing up!

We're starting to see the first results of the hackathon! Florian here is building a Rust bot that talks to Christian's receipt printer, and makes it print what they send to a room. Prototypes are taking form, keep up the good work everyone!

Plenty of conversations have been going on during lunch. Some serious, some less, but it's a very light hearted hackathon. Community first!

Not only do we have drinks, Famedly is also graciously sponsoring our lunch. And what better meal than pizzas to get more hacker brain juice?

Thanks to our sponsor Famedly, people at the hackathon can get refreshed. We even get to play with a fancy bar code scanner!

The Hackathon is making progress, people have formed teams! Integrations, Spec, Custom Emojis, Encrypted Search... there are plenty of ideas flying around!

Our FOSDEM Hackathon begins! Couldn't make it? Joins us at 17:00 CET on YouTube for a Matrix Live, actually Live from Brussels, and discover what attendees created or struggled with! youtube.com/live/U_Ydrcr...

ROOST will be showcasing Osprey at FOSDEM on the The Matrix.org Foundation track, and we’re excited to welcome them as a user and to our community.

Meet Osprey V1.0, a new open source online safety tool designed to help platforms investigate and address their priority threats at scale, without sacrificing data privacy or performance. roost.tools/blog/introdu...

A warm thank you to our sponsors @element.io and Famedly for enabling us to set up Hackathon tomorrow, in Brussels! Can't make it? We will livestream the results at 17:00 CET! matrix.org/blog/2025/12...

A new Rust-SDK- and Kotlin-based SchildiChat for the Desktop, registration tokens and moderation integration in continuwuity, and Matrix at FOSDEM - this and more happened This Week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2026/01...

A great feature when using Matrix: there's a setting that only allows users who you have manually verified (preferably face to face, scanning each other's QR codes) to see your encrypted messages in a group chat. Way to go @matrix.org!

This @fosdem.org talk about @matrix.org history is quite relevant today. EU organizations and companies being forced to take their tech sovereignty seriously is an opportunity to adopt shared OSS solutions. But it is hard for EU programs to distribute the money to reach the right upstream hands.

We will be migrating GodotSteam's community stuff off Discord, due to impending IPO, and onto Matrix and IRC. Find us on Matrix at: matrix.to#/#godotsteam... And IRC via Libera Chat: irc://irc.librea.chat/#godotsteam Our Discord community will shutdown early-to-mid March so get yourself migrated.

A new native macOS client, a funded roadmap for Draupnir, and a Matrix meetup planned in Tokyo – that and lots more happened This Week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2026/01...

A new member in the Foundation, server-wide anti-spam in continuwuity, and a matrixRTC-SDK... That and more happened This Week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2026/01...

A 39C3 debrief, getting ready for FOSDEM, and new developments in the Rust servers area. That and more happened over the year end holidays! matrix.org/blog/2026/01...

Going to FOSDEM? Matrix enthusiast? There will be plenty of opportunity to see us! Between the Decentralised Comm Devroom, our booth, and our hackathon, we will be here in full force! matrix.org/blog/2025/12...

Getting started in open source can be intimidating: everything is public! Don't go alone, take one of our mentors with you and start contributing to Matrix on 30 January, in HSBXL right before FOSDEM! matrix.org/blog/2025/12...

You want to fix that one bug in your Matrix client, but didn't get a chance to dive into it? Participate in our Matrix Hackathon on 30 Jan in Brussels, and get help from our mentors to make your feature happen! Details and free registration on our blog matrix.org/blog/2025/12...

It’s the 2025 Matrix Holiday Special!! Come read all about what went right and what went wrong in 2025 and what the future holds for 2026. Thanks for flying Matrix, and happy holidays! 🎄☃️⛷️🦑 matrix.org/blog/2025/12...

Missing a feature in Matrix? There's a rough edge you would like to file? Come join us and the mentors at the Matrix Hackathon on 30 January in Brussels, and take the matter in your hands with their help! 📌 HSBXL, Brussels 📆 30 Jan matrix.org/blog/2025/12...

Important: admins of Conduit-derived homeservers (Conduit, Continuwuity, Grapevine and Tuwunel) should update immediately to address a critical bug in the federation implementation that is being actively exploited: github.com/continuwuity...

New in open safety tools news, @matrix.org has released Policyserv!!! matrix.org/blog/2025/12...

The Holiday Special Matrix Live, open sourcing the policy server, and a security release for ESS. This concludes This Week In Matrix for this year! matrix.org/blog/2025/12...