matrix
/
matrix.org
mirror of https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix.org.git
0
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Packages Projects Releases Wiki Activity
matrix.org/content/blog/2024/07/2024-07-17-twim.md

9.6 KiB
Raw Permalink Blame History

+++ date = "2024-07-12T19:30:00Z" title = "This Week in Matrix 2024-07-12" path = "/blog/2024/07/12/this-week-in-matrix-2024-07-12" aliases = ["/blog/2024/07/05/this-week-in-matrix-2024-07-12"]

[taxonomies] author = ["MTRNord"] category = ["This Week in Matrix"] +++

Matrix Live

{{youtube_player(video_id="0PUPHmryVjg")}}

Dept of Spec 📜

Andrew Morgan (anoa) {he/him} says

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://spec.matrix.org/proposals.

MSC Status

New MSCs:

MSCs in Final Comment Period:

Accepted MSCs:

Closed MSCs:

  • No MSCs were closed/rejected this week.

Spec Updates

Lots of new MSCs this week - thank you to everyone proposing new ideas or clarifications to the spec!

We have just one MSC this week from the Tuesday pings. Get it below.

  • MSC3572: Relation aggregation cleanup (disposition: close)
    • Since this MSC was written, it has been shown that having (unstable) prefixes in the unsigned field of events is useful. Hence the general consensus from the SCT has been to close this MSC as it stands.
    • Needs 1 checkmark from the SCT (started the week needing 2).

Dept of VoIP 🤙

Andrew F announces

VoIP call membership reliability

The VoIP team is hard at work finalizing the foundations of MatrixRTC. The current main topic is "reliable call member state", which has many different possible solutions and is very important to get right.

We've been making progress, and this week we can share a demo of the first implementation of reliable state, shown in the video below this post.

Here's an explanation of the demo:

- Two users join a call, and each users' client sends a state event to communicate its membership in that call. The room state is used to render the call participant count.
  • Then, one of the users forcefully closes its Element Call tab, and cannot send anything to the homeserver anymore.
  • But, in just a few seconds, the other user sees the call participant count drop. This means the room state was "magically" updated even though the client of the user who left is disconnected!

Why this is so important and how this is achieved can be found in the Matrix Live video of this week (at the top of this TWIM entry).

For the technical details on how the demo works, see MSC4140 for the basis of its implementation of the participant count cleanup. {{figureVideo(vid="/blog/img/d69a43a600530d78b3d40b6f86fd243e1c593ac11811820576617005056.mp4",caption="A demo of two users doing a voice call")}}

Dept of Servers 🏢

Synapse (website)

Synapse is a Matrix homeserver implementation developed by Element

Matthew says

Native Sliding Sync in Synapse is coming. Not remotely ready for primetime yet, but we sent the first ever traffic from Synapse with native sliding sync through to Element X on Wednesday, and it looked like this: {{figure(img="/blog/img/VkeIScCUVGIfPtZFGLfCfVfP.png",caption="A demo of native sliding sync in Synapse using Element X")}}

Dept of Bridges 🌉

tulir says

I wrote a blog post about writing a new bridge using the megabridge architecture introduced in my previous post: https://mau.fi/blog/megabridge-twilio/

Dept of Clients 📱

Kazv (website)

kazv is a convergent matrix client and instant messaging app.

tusooa reports

We got a new developer for the Kazv Project, April Simone (@apr_simone:matrix.org, https://lily-is.land/apr3vau ). She has been doing incredible work, including a patch to display a preview of room members on the room settings page. Lots of thanks to her!

Dept of Ops 🛠

matrix-docker-ansible-deploy (website)

Matrix server setup using Ansible and Docker

Slavi announces

matrix-docker-ansible-deploy has upgraded its default reverse-proxy server Traefik to the recently released version 3. See this blog post to learn about its new features.

Since HTTP/3 support is no longer considered experimental in Traefik v3, the playbook now enables it by default.

See our Traefik v3 and HTTP/3 are here now changelog entry for details.

Slavi says

matrix-docker-ansible-deploy has added support for matrix-alertmanager-receiver - a component helpful to those wishing to more easily integrate Prometheus' alerting service (Alertmanager) with Matrix.

See Setting up Prometheus Alertmanager integration via matrix-alertmanager-receiver for more details.

In the News 📰

Matthew says

https://www.foundation.org.uk/Blog/2024/A-call-for-action-and-a-roadmap-for-the-new-UK-gov is an interesting proposal to the new UK Government to support open source, using Matrix as an example!

Matrix Federation Stats

Aine says

collected by MatrixRooms.info - an MRS instance by etke.cc

As of today, 9576 Matrix federateable servers have been discovered by matrixrooms.info, 2930 (30.6%) of them are publishing their rooms directory over federation. The published directories contain 161312 rooms.

Stats timeline is available on MatrixRooms.info/stats

How to add your server | How to remove your server

Dept of Ping 🏓

Here we reveal, rank, and applaud the homeservers with the lowest ping, as measured by pingbot, a maubot that you can host on your own server.

#ping:maunium.net

Join #ping:maunium.net to experience the fun live, and to find out how to add YOUR server to the game.

Rank Hostname Median MS
1 girlboss.ceo 263
2 awawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawaw.gay 303
3 sulian.eu 359
4 plocki.org 375
5 uwu.sulian.eu 423
6 hacklab.fi 453
7 mx.scalie.zone 503
8 pain.agency 534.5
9 codestorm.net 566
10 awawi.nexus 576

#ping-no-synapse:maunium.net

Join #ping-no-synapse:maunium.net to experience the fun live, and to find out how to add YOUR server to the game.

Rank Hostname Median MS
1 girlboss.ceo 116.5
2 doctoruwu.uk 139
3 awawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawaw.gay 160.5
4 hacklab.fi 194
5 h.hackclub.app 198
6 cwt.grin.hu 261
7 uwu.sulian.eu 319
8 puppygock.gay 371.5
9 reallyaweso.me 375
10 inu.is 377

That's all I know

See you next week, and be sure to stop by #twim:matrix.org with your updates!