🚀 ESS 25.10 is here! New LTS releases for ESS Classic, ESS Pro & ESS TI-M bring enhanced stability and security. Element Admin has arrived in ESS Pro & Community, and MAS support makes it the perfect time to move users to the ultra-fast Element X app. element.io/blog/ess-25-...

openDesk is such a cool project because it's twelve open source tools in a trenchcoat

🇫🇷 France is advancing secure, interoperable communication across its public sector At #MatrixConf2025, Mathieu Velten from DINUM shared how Tchap, built on @matrix.org, now has 375K active users and plans to open its federation to include local authorities. ▶️ Watch Mathieu’s talk to learn more!

I tried again @matrix.org and @element.io out and i have to say its looks now very polished i can really recommend to new Element X Client to everybody :D

Die jährliche Matrix Konferenz - die diesmal in Straßburg stattfand – bot vielen Experten vor allem aus dem öffentlichen Sektor und dem Gesundheitsbereich neue und hilfreiche Einblicke, auch zum Thema digitale Souveränität.

🇩🇪 How do you onboard thousands of separate healthcare clinics & pharmacies to @gematik.bsky.social’s TI-Messenger? At #MatrixConf2025, Patrick Maier shared how large-scale multi-tenant hosting lets service providers roll out TI-Messenger efficiently at national-scale. 🎥 Watch Patrick’s full talk!

🌍 What does digital sovereignty mean, and why does it matter? At #MatrixConf2025, participants from @mindigital.gouvernement.lu, @gematik.bsky.social, BundesMessenger, ZenDiS, CompuGroup Medical and Element shared why digital autonomy is essential for government trust, security and resilience👇

Love El Reg. Always causing good trouble. @richardspeed.bsky.social covers European Commission trialling Element, the duality of govts using OSS without funding upstream vendors, and the hypocrisy of govts adopting E2EE comms while supporting Chat Control. www.theregister.com/2025/10/30/f...

🇸🇪 At #MatrixConf2025, Anna & Kenneth shared how Försäkringskassan’s SAFOS (using @matrix.org + Element) collaboration platform doubled in usage. Initially developed to replace Skype for Business, SAFOS offers interoperable communications between authorities while maintaining digital sovereignty.

Nicolas from @ec.europa.eu shared at #MatrixConf2025 how @matrix.org and Element are being trialed for secure collaboration across EU institutions — replacing Signal as a MS Teams backup, but with advanced identity management, federation and support for air-gapped systems. 🎙️ Listen to his talk!

💡 Incredibly important work from @openforumeurope.org to propose an EU Sovereign Tech Fund (EU-STF) to strengthen Europe’s digital sovereignty, cybersecurity and competitiveness through sustainable, secure open-source technologies. eu-stf.openforumeurope.org

At #MatrixConf2025, Tima from United Nations International Computing Center (UNICC) shared how @matrix.org & Element enable secure collaboration across United Nations orgs to strengthen cybersecurity efforts with plans to scale to critical field operations & crisis management. 🎙️ Listen to her talk!

🇸🇪 Sweden is exploring open-standard messaging across government agencies. eSam recommends adopting @matrix.org for sovereign, secure and interoperable collaboration. Matrix and Element are already in use by Forsäkringskassan and other agencies as part of the SAFOS collaboration platform.

🌕 How do you communicate during a moonwalk crisis? At #matrixconf2025, Aileen (@esa.int / @dlr-en.bsky.social) and Jan-Lukas (@fau.de) showed how Element and @matrix.org enabled real-time crisis communication on a simulated moonwalk at the LUNA Analog Facility. Listen to the full talk! 🚀

Yesterday’s AWS outage highlights the importance of decentralised communications, and digital sovereignty. Governments simply cannot rely on systems with a single point of failure.

Chiara Castro at TechRadar hits the nail firmly on the head. Centralised systems are inherently vulnerable to global outages. One of the many reasons why governments are building out their communications on the decentralised Matrix open standard. www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...

The Matrix Conference 2025 was incredible 🎉 We were delighted to be the anchor sponsor! 🙌 Governments everywhere are embracing @matrix.org - from @ec.europa.eu to @esa.int (we’re over the moon 🌕). All the presentations are already available!

🚀 Busy first day at The Matrix Conference in Strasbourg! Lots of great talks, engaging conversations and plenty of inspiration. Can’t wait for day two @matrix.org 👋 #matrixConf2025

📣 Hot off The Matrix Conference: Element Pro📱our workplace-ready frontend, built to complement ESS Pro. 🎨 In-app brand colours ⚙️ Enterprise features: MDM, certificate pinning, advanced security, streamlined onboarding ➕ Optional extra; cost-efficient whitelabelled mobile app

📣 OverwHelmingly exciting news from The Matrix Conference! Introducing the new Helm-based Element Server Suite (ESS) products. An out-of-the-box way to deploy, host & maintain a Matrix-based system. 🌐 Community • 🔹 Pro • 🇩🇪 TI-Messenger With Element Admin for easy user, room & compliance control.

🚀 We’re ready for The Matrix Conference 2025 kicking off tomorrow in Strasbourg! 🌍 300+ participants from 20+ countries and 10+ governments - all championing Matrix-based sovereign, secure and interoperable communications. We’re proud to be the anchor sponsor again! Highlights and details👇️

Element has signed an open letter to European leaders alongside other organisations. The Danish Presidency’s CSA proposal risks adding backdoors and client-side scanning – undermining encryption, security, and trust across Europe. Strong encryption protects everyone. Weakening it protects no one.

💜 Excited to hear Mathieu's talk at The Matrix Conference about France's use of Element and Matrix in both Tchap and La Suite. Open standard federation is playing such an important role in transforming the way governments work. Check out the full schedule: conference.matrix.org/schedule/

🚀 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-...

🚀 Element Web & Desktop just got a glow-up, bringing Element X vibes from mobile straight to your laptop! ✨ New room list filters 🔔 Clearer notifications 🔧 Accessibility & performance upgrades Version v1.12.0 is live! Try it out and let us know what you think.

🚀 Delighted that the full agenda for The Matrix Conference 2025 is now live! This year’s schedule is packed with government and public organisations sharing how they use Matrix and Element. 🗓️ View the full schedule: conference.matrix.org/schedule/

🚀 Freuen uns, mit dem openDesk-Team bei #SCCON25 dabei zu sein! 📅 1. Okt | 11:30 | ZenDiS-Bühne 🎤 Patrick Alberts zeigt, warum der Matrix-Standard für souveräne Kommunikation entscheidend ist – und wie openDesk Chat (auf Element) produktivere Zusammenarbeit im öffentlichen Sektor ermöglicht.

🚀 @gematik.bsky.social will rebase TI-Messenger on Matrix v1.15! Our ‘ESS Pro for TI-M’ customers get all backend upgrades managed for them, including OAuth 2.0 for next-gen user management, simpler room joins, profile query restrictions and push rule actions.

Amandine Le Pape, COO and co-founder of @element.io, will be speaking at Decidim Fest 2025! ☄️ She has been at the forefront of building the Matrix.org Foundation, nurturing the growth of a vibrant open ecosystem, while also driving the success of Element.

Element users on the default matrix.org homeserver are currently impacted by a serious database outage (bsky.app/profile/matr...) which will take at least 12 hours to recover - many apologies to everyone impacted. Users on their own deployments are of course unaffected.

Great deep-dive article in @resiliencemedia.bsky.social looking at how European governments are embracing digital sovereignty, and the role of open source software vendors. www.resiliencemedia.co/p/as-europea...

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.

A new coordinated security fix for all Matrix server implementations is now published as part of the Matrix 1.16 off‑cycle spec update. Customers using Element Server Suite are covered by the update. Our blog includes all the details.

Element is now more accessible by design, thanks to over 40 improvements in the past months! Thanks to everyone from the community who has provided user feedback, accessibility audits, and been part of ongoing testing of our platforms!

Element's backend team has published a great postmortem of their work recovering the matrix.org postgres database from corruption over the last few weeks. For those interested in the work Element does to keep matrix.org running, check out matrix.org/blog/2025/07...

Acceptance at last? The US government’s unequivocal support for end-to-end encryption is likely to bring an end to the encryption debate.

We're proud to join the community of organisations conformant with OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230, the international standard for open source license compliance programs! 🎉 Learn more: openchainproject.org/news/2025/07...

We're looking forward to it! Check out the Matrix Conference 2025 website with all the latest details👇

"An open standard is the key to digitally sovereign communications between multiple separate organisations.” Matthew Hodgson presents with UNICC's Tima Soni at UN Open Source Week about the importance of open standard federation for real time communications. element.io/blog/the-imp...

We’re excited to be in New York at the #UNOpenSourceWeek to participate in conversations about accelerating Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and scaling open source solutions.

Had a great time at HackDays Paris 2025, a hackathon hosted by the French government’s DINUM, the digital directorate of the French government. We focused on ‘Aurora,’ a prototype web and desktop Matrix client built on the high-performance matrix-rust-sdk using the new Filament WASM bindings.

How do you manage group chats in a messaging app? Use our identity management and group access controls to synchronise with sources such as Microsoft Active Directory. Element gives governments a consumer-style messaging app, but with enterprise-grade control. 👉 element.io/blog/how-ele...

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...

We’re at TI-Summit in Leipzig, with our partner T-Systems! Element Server Suite Pro for TI-Messenger (ESS Pro for TI-M) gives T-Systems a complete backend for its #TI-Messenger solution; the sovereign and secure communications standard from @gematik.bsky.social.

ESS Pro 25.04 LTS is now live, improving performance, reliability, scalability and security for enterprise-grade Matrix deployments. element.io/blog/ess-pro...

Buyers need to examine what a vendor means when it uses the term end-to-end encryption...

We’ve signed an open letter to the European Commission expressing our concerns around continued attempts to undermine encryption. We ask the Commission to reconsider ProtectEU, and acknowledge that encryption is a positive that improves security. www.globalencryption.org/2025/05/join...

💥Matrix.org is now running Matrix Authentication Service (MAS)! There’s never been a better time for Matrix.org users to switch to Element X! 🥳

Woohoo!

We’ve launched our first TI-Messenger compliant edition of ESS! Built to meet gematik’s specs, this edition empowers secure, scalable, and cost-effective healthcare communications in Germany. Powered by Synapse Pro for nation-scale efficiency. Details here: element.io/blog/introdu...