🚀 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...

Attention! Self-hosters will need to run their own Element Call server from May 5th, as the shared communal service from Element for non-ESS/EMS customers is being sunset due to getting too popular and expensive. Good news; there are lots of ways to do so! Read the blog to find out how.

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...

“Dutch computer scientist and intelligence expert Bert Hubert explains why European governments should urgently exit the American clouds and how to do this fastest” | republik.ch https://alecmuffett.com/article/113085 #BertHubert #cloud #europe #regulation

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...

Candid analysis by @berthub.eu on the need for European governments to ensure their digital sovereignty. He covers the need for Europe-first software, AI’s ability to monitor multi-language communications at scale, and marketing fog from US vendors surrounding initiatives such as EU Data Boundary.

Great in-depth Q&A article in @heise.de with @arathorn.net by Marie-Claire Koch covering the importance of why sensitive communications should be secure and independent.

An off-cycle Synapse security release is out to address a High severity vulnerability (CVE-2025-30355 / github.com/element-hq/s...). The issue can disrupt federation and is being exploited in the wild - please upgrade as soon as possible!

Welcome to the Wild West of consumer messaging apps within governments. It’s not a one off. It’s not just the Trump administration. Governments have to put a serious alternative in place, combining the usability and E2EE of messaging apps with enterprise-grade oversight and control.

One of the many things consumer messaging apps lack is enterprise-grade identity and access management. Without that it’s super easy to accidentally invite the wrong people...

👀 @heise.de befasst sich mit der fragwürdigen Empfehlung des Europäischen Parlaments, Signal zu verwenden, wenn die eigenen Plattformen – Microsoft Teams und Jabber – nicht verfügbar sind. 🤔 Drei Kommunikationslösungen, aber keine davon bietet digitale Souveränität...

Good to see overwhelming support in France to reject backdoors into end-to-end encryption as it presents "too great a risk of creating a vulnerability that would endanger the conversations of all users of these platforms."

👏 Superb report (link in the blog post) into the use of consumer messaging apps within the Australian public sector from the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. Good work from @davidpocock.bsky.social in calling for action.

@amandine.bsky.social is today speaking at The GovTech Summit's main stage on a panel alongside The Rt Hon Pat McFadden MP, Dr. Nadine Hachach-Haram and Richard Browning about what governments can learn from the tech industry to fuel innovation.

Skype for Business is rapidly approaching End of Life. Compare modern alternatives with our decision making tree: static.element.io/pdfs/skype-r...

"The way people buy open source is still not right," says @amandine.bsky.social at @openforumeurope.org. Enjoy more straight talking from Astor Nummelin Carlberg, @peterganten.bsky.social, @cristinacaffarra.bsky.social, Adriana Groh and Pearse O'Donohue.

Building on Matrix but need to keep your software proprietary? We've created Build as a way to use Matrix commercially while supporting the open-source ecosystem. Let’s build sustainably: element.io/blog/build-f...

Swedish Armed Forces opts for Signal as a quick fix. A more strategic approach would ensure communications remain sovereign, interoperable, resilient, and secure.

@amandine.bsky.social joins the stage at @foss-backstage.de talking about the need for open source funding.

Thank you for the inclusion. 🙏 (and we do #Collaboration too!)

IT leaders are concerned about their internal and external communications solutions. They need tools to achieve success without sacrificing security and compliance goals. Learn more in The Future of Secure Communications, our study conducted by Forrester Consulting. try.element.io/forrester-re...

Apologies, we had a blip with today’s 1.11.94 Element Desktop app update for Windows (both 32 and 64 bit). If you’re struggling with launching the Element Desktop app on Windows, please download it from element.io/download and install it over the old app.

⏰ Skype for Business is rapidly approaching End of Life. To help you find a secure self-hosted replacement, our info sheet explores six questions to help you find an alternative. ➡️ static.element.io/pdfs/skype-f...

Just in case there aren’t enough cat videos in the world already… 😺

One thing I’m seeing re: today’s Apple news is a lot of people blaming Apple. Saying that Apple is selling people out by withdrawing encryption features from the U.K. market. For example, here’s Tim Sweeney. I want to propose a different take.