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title = "This Week in Matrix 2020-11-20"
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path = "/blog/2020/11/20/this-week-in-matrix-2020-11-20"
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[taxonomies]
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author = ["Ben Parsons"]
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category = ["This Week in Matrix"]
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[extra]
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image = "https://matrix.org/blog/img/2020-11-20-oleg.png"
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## Matrix Live 🎙
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{{ youtube_player(video_id="7eIHkUdfR-A") }}
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Something different this week as we welcomed the community to submit their own demos!
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1. Oleg presents his Matrix home-automation setup, which uses Opsdroid, home-assistant and the reminder maubot.
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2. Nico gives presents a selection of small-ish new features in Nheko
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3. Timo gives a tour of the current state of the Conduit homeserver
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4. MTRNord (Marcel) presents the time-tracking bot used by Famedly
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5. Sorunome presents bootstrapping (creating cross-signing keys and online keybackup) in Fluffychat.
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6. Bala from Noteworthy presents *Deploy a Matrix home server in 2 minutes with Noteworthy* (set to royalty free music!)
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## Dept of *Status of Matrix* 🌡️
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### Bundeswehr deployment and app goes live
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[Matthew](https://matrix.to/#/@matthew:matrix.org) reported:
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> The Matrix deployment for the Bundeswehr (German Armed Forces) has gone live - details (in German) at <https://messenger.bwi.de/> and <https://www.bwi.de/news-blog/news/artikel/open-source-matrix-ist-einheitlicher-messenger-standard-fuer-die-bundeswehr> and further coverage at <https://www.egovernment-computing.de/bwi-und-bundeswehr-setzen-auf-open-source-a-980033/>
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[Oleg](https://matrix.to/#/@oleg:fiksel.info) (same fellow from the video - wow!) added:
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> Heise (German news portal) also quoted the news: <https://www.heise.de/news/Matrix-steht-als-Messenger-fuer-Soldaten-und-zivile-Angehoerige-zur-Verfuegung-4963211.html>
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[David Mehren](https://matrix.to/#/@davebloggt:kif.rocks) linked to Element's own coverage:
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> <https://element.io/blog/bwmessenger-goes-live-for-bundeswehr/>
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## Dept of Spec 📜
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### New spec platform
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[wbamberg](https://matrix.to/#/@wbamberg:matrix.org) said:
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> * Demo site is at <https://adoring-einstein-5ea514.netlify.app/1.1/>
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>
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> * This week we have:
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> * Migrated all spec documents into the new platform, updated all template calls to the new toolchain except those for versioning and changelogs.
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> * Implemented basic support for representing spec versions in the new site, based on the [global versioning MSC](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2844).
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### Spec
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[anoa](https://matrix.to/#/@andrewm:amorgan.xyz) reported:
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> Here's your weekly spec update! The heart of Matrix is the specification - and this is modified by Matrix Spec Change (MSC) proposals. Learn more about how the process works at <https://matrix.org/docs/spec/proposals>.
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>
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> #### MSC Status
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>
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> **Merged MSCs:**
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> * _No MSCs were merged this week._
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>
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> **MSCs in Final Comment Period:**
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>
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> * [MSC1544: Key verification using QR codes](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/1544)
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> * This landed right after I wrote the first draft of this entry!
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>
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> **New MSCs:**
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> * [MSC2870: Protect server ACLs from redaction](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2870)
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> * [MSC2867: Marking rooms as unread](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2867)
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>
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> Personally I would find that last one quite helpful!
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>
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> #### Spec Core Team
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>
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> In terms of Spec Core Team MSC focus for this week, we're sticking with the same three MSCs: [MSC2844](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/2844) (global versioning), [MSC1544](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/1544) (QR code verification) and [MSC2790](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/2790) (modal widgets). [MSC2844](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/2844) in particular I personally found quite interesting.
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## Dept of Servers 🏢
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### Dendrite / gomatrixserverlib
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Dendrite is a next-generation homeserver written in Go
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[Neil Alexander](https://matrix.to/#/@neilalexander:matrix.org) said:
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> We started out this week by releasing [Dendrite 0.3.0](https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite/releases/tag/v0.3.0) and then ended the week with a bug-fix [Dendrite 0.3.1](https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite/releases/tag/v0.3.1) release.
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>
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> I'd like to say thank you especially to our community contributors who have been adding new features and filling gaps!
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>
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> Changes this week include:
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> * Memory optimisation by reference passing, significantly reducing the number of allocations and duplications in memory
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> * A concurrency bug has been fixed in the federation API that could cause Dendrite to crash
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> * A hook API has been added for experimental MSCs, with an early implementation of MSC2836
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>
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> * Forgetting rooms is now supported (thanks to [S7evinK](https://github.com/S7evinK))
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> * The last seen timestamp and IP address are now updated automatically when calling `/sync`
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>
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> * The last seen timestamp and IP address are now reported in `/_matrix/client/r0/devices` (thanks to [alexkursell](https://github.com/alexkursell))
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> * An optional configuration option `sync_api.real_ip_header` has been added for specifying which HTTP header contains the real client IP address (for if Dendrite is running behind a reverse HTTP proxy)
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>
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> * Partial implementation of `/_matrix/client/r0/admin/whois` (thanks to [DavidSpenler](https://github.com/DavidSpenler))
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> * The error when registering a username with invalid characters has been corrected (thanks to [bodqhrohro](https://github.com/bodqhrohro))
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>
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> * The `-version` command line flag has been added (thanks to [S7evinK](https://github.com/S7evinK))
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> * Backfilling should now work properly on rooms with world-readable history visibility (thanks to [MayeulC](https://github.com/MayeulC))
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>
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> * Some more client event fields have been marked as omit-when-empty (thanks to [S7evinK](https://github.com/S7evinK))
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> * The `build.sh` script has been updated to work properly on all POSIX platforms (thanks to [felix](https://github.com/felix))
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>
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> Spec compliance is unchanged, although some Synapse-specific tests have been removed and some new tests have been added:
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>
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> * Client-server APIs: 58%, same as last week
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>
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> * Server-server APIs: 83%, same as last week
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>
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> As always, feel free to join us in [#dendrite:matrix.org](https://matrix.to/#/#dendrite:matrix.org) for general Dendrite chat or [#dendrite-dev:matrix.org](https://matrix.to/#/#dendrite-dev:matrix.org) for development discussion.
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### Synapse
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[callahad](https://matrix.to/#/@callahad:matrix.org) offered:
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> We released Synapse 1.23.0 on Wednesday! Read all about it on the [Matrix Blog](https://matrix.org/blog/2020/11/18/synapse-1-23-0-released). Otherwise, we'd like to highlight a few developments over the past week:
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>
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> * We're discussing a policy for ending support for old versions of Python and PostgreSQL. If you have opinions, please [let us know on GitHub](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8782).
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>
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> * Our initial implementation of [MSC2403: Add "knock" feature](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2403) is undergoing review, and will likely land soon.
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> * We've been looking at ways to improve the efficiency of state resolution, and Erik has managed to [devise some algorithmic improvements](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8622#issuecomment-729620021) that yield an order of magnitude speedup for a handful of pathologic cases. We hope to have a better idea of how this might work for real world workloads soon.
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> Lastly, we'd like to take this opportunity to remind you to **please regularly upgrade your Synapse.** Especially if you're not yet on 1.20.0, as we'll be disclosing a denial of service issue which affects older versions on Monday.
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### maunium/synapse
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[Tulir](https://matrix.to/#/@tulir:maunium.net) said:
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> mewmew wanted to use my fork of Synapse, so I made the changes there configurable (instead of hardcoding to my user ID) and even added a readme to list the features. It might also be useful for other people who want custom room IDs and other fun stuff.
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> The fork is available at <https://mau.dev/maunium/synapse>
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## Homeserver Deployment 📥️
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### Kubernetes
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[Ananace](https://matrix.to/#/@ace:kittenface.studio) offered:
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> And just to be on time, I just pushed an updated tag and new version of my K8s [container image](https://github.com/ananace/matrix-synapse) and [chart](https://gitlab.com/ananace/charts) for Synapse 1.23.0
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### Dendrite
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Dendrite is a next-generation homeserver written in Go
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[TR_SLimey](https://matrix.to/#/@tr_slimey:an-atom-in.space) offered:
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> I've updated the Dendrite ARM docker images to v0.3.0. They can be found at <https://hub.docker.com/r/trslimey/dendrite-monolith> & <https://hub.docker.com/r/trslimey/dendrite-polylith>
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and later
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> I have once again updated the Docker ARM Dendrite images for version 0.3.1.
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## Dept of Bridges 🌉
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### mx-puppet-bridge
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[mx-puppet-discord](https://github.com/matrix-discord/mx-puppet-discord) is a (double)puppeting and relay bridge for discord, based on mx-puppet-bridge
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[sorunome](https://matrix.to/#/@sorunome:sorunome.de) told us:
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> Support for receiving EDUs from matrix (typing, read indicators and presence) has been added. Protocol implementations can start using the new events, if they want to. Version `0.1.0` has been released along with this. You have to enable the `de.sorunome.msc2409.push_ephemeral` flag in your registration file
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> #### mx-puppet-discord
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> Added support for bridging typing and presence matrix->discord
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### Gitter
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[Eric Eastwood](https://matrix.to/#/@madlittlemods:matrix.org) offered:
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> The native Gitter <-> Matrix bridge is in production! 🚀🚀 We're only testing it out in a single room but feel free to come by and send a message 😀
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>
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> <https://gitter.im/gitter/testing-matrix-bridge> <-> [#5faa0809d73408ce4ff3ad8e:gitter.im](https://matrix.to/#/#5faa0809d73408ce4ff3ad8e:gitter.im)
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>
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> We also have edits from the Gitter side flowing to Matrix and soon to support [edits from Matrix](https://gitlab.com/gitterHQ/webapp/-/merge_requests/2058). You can track our full progress from the [GitLab epic for the native Gitter <-> Matrix bridge](https://gitlab.com/groups/gitterHQ/-/epics/10).
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### mx-puppet-vk
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[Coma Grayce](https://matrix.to/#/@commagray:sunbutt.faith) told us:
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> Hey, our team of colorful ponies proud to introduce you a new Matrix bridge to VK.com chats. It's powered by mx-puppet-bridge and so far supports almost all of core features people want to see, like replies, message edits and file attachments.
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> Project home: <https://github.com/innereq/mx-puppet-vk>
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> Video introduction: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBRBUA9beXs>
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## Dept of Clients 📱
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### Nheko
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[Nheko](https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko) is a desktop client using Qt, Boost.Asio and C++17. It supports E2EE (with the notable exception being device verification for now) and intends to be full featured and nice to look at
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[Nico (@deepbluev7:neko.dev)](https://matrix.to/#/@deepbluev7:neko.dev) announced:
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> * Profiles should now open again on older versions of Qt.
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> * I've been slowly rewriting the message are to be qml, to make it easier to do fancy styling. As a result emojis in the emoji-completer are now colorful and the avatars in the username completer now match the avatars used in the timeline. It also open up a few other improvements, like finally sending mentions as links instead of plain text.
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> * We have now CI running on our [self hosted gitlab instance](https://nheko.im). We will probably switch of the travis CI, once this is more battle tested. Repositories are now also automatically mirrored between gitlab and github.
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>
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> * Fixed a bug, where we tried to read the internal world group on your server instead of keeping that to ourself.
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### Konheko
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[Nico (@deepbluev7:neko.dev)](https://matrix.to/#/@deepbluev7:neko.dev) offered:
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> I released 0.0.3 a few days ago bundling a few smaller improvements like redactions, copying messages and the ability to click on more links as well as some visual cleanups. Nothing radical, but also nothing breaking (I hope).
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### Element
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[Neil](https://matrix.to/#/@neilj:matrix.org) said:
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> #### Delight (Rich vdH, Michael (t3chguy), Valere, Steve, Nique, Nad)
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> * **Improving usability**
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> * Last week
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> * Observed user tests of people trying to use Element for the first time for personal and professional use cases
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> * This week:
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> * Began work on fixing several of the issues observed, like:
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> * adding an invite people button to new rooms, so users can more easily add people;
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> * changing copy to help people understand what DMs are
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> * **Spaces**
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> * Communities are coming back with a bang! Last week we said we renamed them to Spaces, and this week, we’ve started designing what[ MSC1772](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/1772) would look like for users on Element, to start user testing next week.
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> * **Social login**
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> * To make authentication easier, we’ve started initial implementations of SSO in Element, exploring how homeservers & Matrix clients can support multiple SSO providers. Most of the work so far is captured in [MSC2858](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2858).
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> #### VoIP (Dave, Brendan, Ismail, Francois, Simon, Nad)
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> * Web
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> * PR up for new look in-call UI, now looking at line 1 / 2 support
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> * Mobile
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> * Work ongoing to update both platforms to v1 VoIP
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> * Design
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> * Some tweaks as implementation is ongoing
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> #### Web Platform (Ryan)
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> * Element Web 1.7.14-rc.1 is now available at [<https://staging.element.io>](https://staging.element.io), including:
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> * Several tweaks and improvements to the room list filter
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> * Improved invite / create DM flow
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> #### iOS Platform (Manu, Gil)
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> * Last week:
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> * The release has been blocked because a [bug](https://github.com/vector-im/element-ios/issues/3817) has been found in the end to end encryption module. It has been fixed but we want to fix [damages](https://github.com/vector-im/element-ios/issues/3818#issuecomment-731174166) it created on one time keys before releasing the new app version.
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> * The new background sync service mechanism PR has been updated
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> * We started to integrate [tuist](https://tuist.io/) to stop to be annoyed with merge conflicts on the Xcode project file
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> * This week:
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> * Release!
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> * Merge the background sync service mechanism PR and make more people test it
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> #### Android Platform (Benoit, Onuray)
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> * Last week:
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> * We’ve just merged a lot of PRs, to improve room creation form and fix some bugs.
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> * SDK side, [Dominaezzz](https://github.com/Dominaezzz) is converting some of the Service API methods to coroutines, for a cleaner code. See for instance [<https://github.com/vector-im/element-android/pull/2414>](https://github.com/vector-im/element-android/pull/2414) . 9 out of about 45 services have been migrated so far. We have about a 45 services in the SDK (!)
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> * This week:
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> * Release including a new way to invite friends to Matrix and to Element.
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### Hydrogen
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[Bruno](https://matrix.to/#/@bwindels:matrix.org) reported:
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> Released 0.1.30 with image uploads. There is also a new preference in the settings to scale sent images down.
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{{ youtube_player(video_id="wpAXR-HYKmI") }}
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## Dept of SDKs and Frameworks 🧰
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### Ruma
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Ruma is a Rust project to create a comprehensive set of APIs for Matrix. Previously there was a Ruma homeserver project.
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[jplatte](https://matrix.to/#/@jplatte:privacytools.io) said:
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> Since our last update four weeks ago,
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> * iinuwa created issues for all of the identity service api endpoints (w/ suggested module names!) 🎉
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> * I updated lots of enumerated types to allow unspecced values, for future compatibility & robustness
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> * Devin R made sure a custom Content-Type in responses overwrites the default rather than creating a duplicate header. [#339](https://github.com/ruma/ruma/pull/339)
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> * [gnieto](https://github.com/gnieto) fixed a bunch of bugs in ruma-federation-api
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> * [Alejandro Domínguez](https://github.com/aledomu) added support for deserializing string power levels (requires the `unstable-synapse-quirks` feature because these events are invalid according to the spec but Synapse used to (?) accept them)
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### Ruby SDK
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[Ananace](https://matrix.to/#/@ace:kittenface.studio) reported:
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> Just released version 2.2.0 of the [Matrix Ruby SDK](https://github.com/ananace/ruby-matrix-sdk) with the help of the community, with this release support for JRuby is improved - though still not perfect, in the higher-level abstraction direct messaging rooms are now exposed for all users - as well as all that the current user has, and the lower-level abstraction sees the addition of the CS API method to get an event context.
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> And just to reiterate; if you're using the gem - or have questions/comments about it. please do drop into the discussion room at [#ruby-matrix-sdk:kittenface.studio](https://matrix.to/#/#ruby-matrix-sdk:kittenface.studio).
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## Dept of Bots 🤖
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You can see demos of both bots in this section by watching Matrix Live \o/
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### [home-assistant-bot v2.0.0 released](https://gitlab.com/olegfiksel/home-assistant-bot/-/releases/v2.0.0)
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[Oleg](https://matrix.to/#/@oleg:fiksel.info) told us:
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> Opsdroid bot for triggering home-assistant automations.
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> #### Changes
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> * ⚠️ Possible breaking change: [change behavior how messages are matched](https://gitlab.com/olegfiksel/home-assistant-bot/-/issues/4)
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> * Before: messages were matched only if a message starts with `!`
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> * In this version: the whole message is matched. This means in v2.0.0 this will work `Hey, please !turnon light1`
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> * You can override this by using `^` in the config for. For example: `regex: "^!turnon"`
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> * This allows one bot trigger another. See this TWIM video for details. 😉
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> * Add [howto for setting up wakeup-light with home-assistant](https://gitlab.com/olegfiksel/home-assistant-bot/-/blob/master/howtos/wake-up-light/README.md)
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> * Update Opsdroid to v0.19.0
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> * Update opsdroid-homeassistant to 0.1.8
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> * Add `debug` [config parameter](https://gitlab.com/olegfiksel/home-assistant-bot/-/blob/master/sample-config.yaml#L40) to display messages in the chat, that the bot is getting but, maybe, is not processing/matching
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> #### Feedback
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>
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> * Join us at [#home-assistant-bot:fiksel.info](https://matrix.to/#/#home-assistant-bot:fiksel.info) [#opsdroid-general:matrix.org](https://matrix.to/#/#opsdroid-general:matrix.org)
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### Famedly Timetracking bot
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[MTRNord](https://matrix.to/#/@mtrnord:nordgedanken.dev) announced:
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> As seen in the video I am working at famedly on a bot to track our work hours.
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>
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> Until this happens the video gives you a sneakpeak on the functions of that bot.
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>
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> #### Current (implemented) functions
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>
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> * Tracking of time using `!in` and `!out` commands with forced usage of a description as well as ISO 8601 timestamps.
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>
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> * Verification if a time is logical based on the known data
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> * Saving the times tracked inside of postgresql
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>
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> * Tracking durations using a `!record` command
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> * Responding to only allowed users. (Including ignoring invites if a user is not allowed to use the bot.)
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>
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> * Using `!delete` to remove entries from the database as needed
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> #### Planned functions
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>
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> * Handling of timezones based on users
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>
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> * `!stats` command which prints you the tracked durations based on a predefined or custom range of time
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> * CSV Export based on a defined range
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>
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> * `!break` command. Putting a break in between a record or a in/out combination.
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> * Better handling of multiple !in commands
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>
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> * Improved responses
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> * Reminders to call !out and to take breaks
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>
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> Fell free to join us at [#timetracking-bot:famedly.de](https://matrix.to/#/#timetracking-bot:famedly.de) . As soon as the repo gets opened up to public we will announce it in TWIM. Feel free to give suggestions or wishes in our room :)
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>
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> Get it at: <https://gitlab.com/famedly/bots/timetracking>
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## Dept of Ping 🏓
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Here we reveal, rank, and applaud the homeservers with the lowest ping, as measured by [pingbot](https://github.com/maubot/echo), a [maubot](https://github.com/maubot/maubot) that you can host on your own server. Join [#ping:maunium.net](https://matrix.to/#/#ping:maunium.net) to experience the fun live, and to find out how to add YOUR server to the game.
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|Rank|Hostname|Median MS|
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|:---:|:---:|:---:|
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|1|envs.net|297|
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|2|neko.dev|297.5|
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|3|maescool.be|346|
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|4|sorunome.de|396|
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|5|apetre.sc|439.5|
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|6|maunium.net|503|
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|7|midov.moe|520.5|
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|8|matrix.sp-codes.de|603|
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|9|matrix.thedisco.zone|608|
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|10|casavant.org|609|
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## That's all I know 🏁
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See you next week, and be sure to stop by [#twim:matrix.org] with your updates!
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[#TWIM:matrix.org]: https://matrix.to/#/#TWIM:matrix.org
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