🚀 We’re pleased to showcase the work of our summer intern, Skye, who made a big impact with their work on encrypted state events. The blog post breaks down the project in detail. element.io/blog/hiding-...

Open source and federated systems are all about collaboration. But collaboration is not chaos. Come listen to DINUM's Mathieu Velten at the Matrix Conference, explain how it opens its private federation to a select few, securely! 🎟️ Tickets: conference.matrix.org/register/

Distributions on our website, on-demand Trust & Safety bots, a new connectivity tester. That and much more happened This Week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2025/09...

The Matrix Conference schedule published, the Matrix hackathon streak continues for another week, and the spec 1.16 release - this and more happened This Week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2025/09...

We've just released v1.16 of the Matrix specification! Extensible profiles, room version 12, and more are now part of the specification. Read all about it (and what's next up in spec-land) on the blog: matrix.org/blog/2025/09...

The results of a 2 day hackathon (1 hour of demos!), an official Matrix server for the European Commission, and the Trust & Safety Working Group in Motion. That and much more happened This Week In Matrix matrix.org/blog/2025/09...

Would it be a Matrix event without one of our State of The Union keynotes? Don't miss your chance to come at the Matrix Conference and listen to our Guardian Matthew paint the picture of the Matrix landscape! conference.matrix.org

Having two passwords can be confusing! Andy will walk us through why you need 2 passwords in Matrix, and how we can do better with non-technical terms and metaphors. Don't miss his talk at #MatrixConf2025! conference.matrix.org

Benjamin is an active member of the Rewrite in Rust task force, and he wants you to know how you can make your Matrix app go voom 🦀 Don't miss his talk at the Matrix Conference in October 15-18! conference.matrix.org

So: the matrix.org database secondary lost its FS due to a RAID failure earlier today (11:17 UTC). Then, we lost the primary at 17:26. We're trying to restore the primary DB FS (which could be fastish), while also doing a point-in-time backup restore from last night (which takes >10h).

the matrix.org homeserver is having serious db problems: status.matrix.org/incidents/mm... - apologies for the inconvenience…

Ever wondered why Matrix doesn't use MLS? Nico will explore how MLS and Matrix work internally, and shed some light on it. Join us for the Matrix Conference in Strasbourg, Oct 15-19! conference.matrix.org

Widget updates, a bot SDK getting two releases, and Multi-SFU in Calls. That and much more happened This Week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2025/08...

A space for moderators, updates to gomuks and Element X, and a Matrix room version checker. That and much more happened This Week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2025/08...

We create products to serve people. But how do people feel about tech? Carla Griggio studied how people feel about untraceability and whether experts make a good job at explaining what it means. Joins us at the Matrix Conference in October to learn more! conference.matrix.org

Security releases, updates for alllll* the clients, and the community summer events marathon continues... This and more happened This Week in Matrix! Get your report, sent live from the FrOSCon setup in Bonn, may contain frogs... 🐸 matrix.org/blog/2025/08...

We’ve now published the details of the security issues which we addressed in Monday’s coordinated security release of Matrix: read all about Project Hydra at matrix.org/blog/2025/08... and please upgrade your servers and rooms where applicable.

We issued a security release to fix two high severity protocol vulnerabilities. Please upgrade your servers and clients. Our checklist and useful links in the blog post below matrix.org/blog/2025/08...

An upcoming security release, invisible crypto update, and your Alertmanager alerts in Matrix. That and much more happened This Week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2025/08...

How the Foundation combated abuse over the last 12 months, new T&S working groups, and an open data powered map of academic Matrix instances! It's dangerous to go alone, take This Week in Matrix with you! matrix.org/blog/2025/08...

An exciting Postgres detective story, the Matrix Community Summit next week in Berlin, and the Matrix-based TI-Messenger available to those with German health insurance - this and more happened This Week in Matrix! Get the fresh report on the blog: matrix.org/blog/2025/07...

Here's the full postmortem of the nightmare postgres corruption on matrix.org which caused room corruption over the last few weeks: matrix.org/blog/2025/07... We'd like to apologise to everyone who got bitten by the incident.

An update to the upcoming security release, vodozemac Python bindings updated, and automated accessibility audits — read all about what's new This Week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2025/07...

IMPORTANT: We're pre-disclosing two high severity CVEs in Matrix's federation protocol, which will require a coordinated upgrade on July 22nd of all servers running in untrusted federations. Client developers may need to make minor changes too. Please see matrix.org/blog/2025/07...

New room versions on the horizon, Element Call turning your phone into a... phone? and your choice out of 536,558 (over half a million!?!) different individual community summit T-shirts - that and so much more happened this week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2025/07...

You can now find the latest details about the Matrix Conf 2025 on our new website 🥳 Check out the website for more information about: 🎟️ Purchasing a ticket 🎉 Grabbing the last sponsorship package 💪 Volunteering for a free ticket (and a limited edition zipper hoodie) conference.matrix.org

Accessibility in Element X, plenty of improvements in Tammy and Trixinity, and FITKO and ZaPuK converging on Matrix as the standard for German public sector communications That and more happened this week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2025/07...

Welcome to the Matrix 1.15 era with next-gen auth, room summaries, and rich topics! Check out the blog post about the latest spec release for more details: matrix.org/blog/2025/06...

hello from @matrix.org and @roost.tools 🐓 #UNOpenSourceWeek

Matrix Conference Ticket Sales, an open source prototype policy server, and registration tokens for MAS. That, and much more happened This Week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2025/06...

We're pleased to share the results of the 2025 Governing Board elections! Congrats to our elected reps, new and returning, and thanks to all the candidates and voters. Special thanks to our outgoing reps who served in a precedent-setting first cohort. matrix.org/blog/2025/06...

We're pleased to share the results of the 2025 Governing Board elections! Congrats to our elected reps, new and returning, and thanks to all the candidates and voters. Special thanks to our outgoing reps who served in a precedent-setting first cohort. matrix.org/blog/2025/06...

Announcing Premium Accounts, better devX for hookshot, and a mx CLI to help with automation. That and more happened This Week In Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2025/06...

🕙 CfP Deadline Update 🕙 We received plenty of good proposals already, but people reached out to ask for an extension of the Matrix Conference CfP. We're happy to extend it until the end of June. If you haven't submitted already, now is the best time! cfp.2025.matrix.org/matrix-conf-...

Project Aurora, the EU adopting Matrix for cybersecurity crisis management, and significant improvements in the rust SDK thanks to DINUM's HackDays. That and more happened This Week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2025/06...

The latest invite-spam-blocking technologies, Matrix Community Summit 2025 announced, and the custom emotes MSC has been proposed for final comment period – this and more happened This Week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2025/05...

Governing Board nominees announced, 2 new members, an open CFP for #MatrixConf (deadline June 8!), new research, and new releases. That and more This Week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2025/05...

Introducing the nominees for the 2025 Governing Board elections! Thanks to everyone who threw their hat in the ring. Voting begins at the end of the month. Now is a great time to get to know the candidates: matrix.org/foundation/g...

Nomination period is open for the Governing Board, new releases across the ecosystem, Conduit's new maintainer Matthias has released v0.10.0, and a fresh episode of Matrix Live. All that and more in This Week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2025/05...

The next round of Governing Board elections, OAuth 2.0 login with shiny new Fractal 11, and Matrix to safeguard AI-human collaboration? This and more happened This Week In Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2025/05...

Today we kick off the Governing Board election season! Read our blog post for details, including election timeline as well as who is eligible to nominate and vote. matrix.org/blog/2025/04...

Rust homeserver development "continuwues," a hackathon announced in Paris, and new tools to combat spam. That and much more happened this week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2025/04...

We've recently seen serious spam attacks against Matrix, so we're introducing Policy Servers to recommend whether servers should accept or discard events *before* they get synced to clients. If your server participates in public rooms, see matrix.org/blog/2025/04... to keep it safe.

Millions of records migrated to MAS on matrix.org, a PhD position, and plenty of releases! That and much more happened This Week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2025/04...

We're thrilled to announce that the migration of matrix.org to the Matrix Authentication Service (MAS) is complete and went according to plan! Find all the details and videos of how it looks like on Element X and Fractal on our blog!

Our newest paper, “ReP2P Matrix: Decentralized Relays to Improve Reliability and Performance of Peer-to-Peer Matrix”, is now available under CC-BY: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1... Code and data based on the existing peer-to-peer @matrix.org prototypes available as well: gitlab.kit.edu/kit/tm/telem...

The matrix.org server migration to Next Gen Auth happened successfully between 07:00 and 07:30 UTC - we'll give more details in a blog post shortly. Meanwhile, please let us know if you spot any auth/registration/login problems.

Exciting news! The Matrix Foundation homeserver will migrate to the all new matrix-authentication-service on April 7th, with an expected downtime of 1h between 7am and 8am UTC. More details about the impact for your on our blog. matrix.org/blog/2025/04...

A bot for expiring messages, plenty of releases in Element land, and a beta for Fractal! That and much more happened This Week in Matrix!

We've just released v1.14 of the Matrix specification. This is largely a maintenance release, as we work to land more significant changes, such as Next Generation Authentication, in v1.15. Details in the blog: