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Weekly Recap

Weekly Recap

The following changes were introduced this week and mentioned in #updates:etke.cc. This summary ensures no one missed them.

Component Updates

Version Changes

🔦 Component Spotlight: MatrixRooms.info - Smarter Room Discovery

MatrixRooms.info is the demo instance of our MRS (Matrix Rooms Search) project, a backend service that powers advanced Matrix room discovery and sharing features across Federation. It helps users explore the Matrix ecosystem more efficiently - and now it’s better than ever!

🆕 What’s new this week?

  • 🔍 MSC1929 checker: Instantly validate MSC1929 UI support for your homeserver via a visual test page.
  • 🔗 Search results you can share: Copy links like matrixrooms.info/search/coffee and share filtered results directly.
  • 🏠 Enhanced room pages: Rich previews (OpenGraph), improved avatars, and 1-click joining via MSC2312.
  • 🎯 Search filters: Find rooms by language, server, and more language:EN server:etke.cc.
  • 🖼️ Avatar fallbacks & caching: Fast and beautiful, even when the room lacks an image.

💡 Why care?

MatrixRooms.info is more than a search engine - it’s a discoverability layer for the federated Matrix world. These updates help communities surface relevant spaces, and make room sharing seamless across platforms.

🛠 Explore the MRS source code and say hi in the #mrs:etke.cc room!

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Weekly Recap

Weekly Recap

The following changes were introduced this week and mentioned in #updates:etke.cc. This summary ensures no one missed them.

Component Updates

Version Changes

Baibot Feature Spotlight: Computer Vision & Image Editing

Baibot (pronounced bye-bot) is an advanced AI assistant for Matrix rooms. It understands natural language, answers questions, helps with everyday tasks, and assists with language learning or brainstorming - all directly inside your Matrix chats. Baibot supports multiple languages, and works well in family and community contexts.

Now baibot is even more useful: with the latest update, it can not only chat but also see, understand, and edit images!

Baibot’s new computer vision support means you can share images or screenshots in chat, and baibot will analyze, describe, or discuss their content. Got a meme, chart, or photo? Baibot can explain, summarize, or answer questions about it.

And with the new image editing feature (currently via the OpenAI provider), you can ask baibot to enhance, adjust, or modify images - right in your conversation, using simple commands.

How can this help you?

  • Instantly get explanations or summaries of any image, screenshot, or photo sent in chat
  • Edit and enhance images without leaving Matrix (e.g., “blur the background”, “make it black & white”, “add a funny caption”)
  • Make support chats, group discussions, or family rooms more visual and interactive

✨ Ready to make your Matrix space smarter and more fun? Contact us to get baibot installed on your server for +$3/month!

Want to see baibot in action? Check out these screenshots (editing a single image, editing multiple images), or learn more in the documentation and in the #baibot:etke.cc room

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Weekly Recap

Weekly Recap

The following changes were introduced this week and mentioned in #updates:etke.cc. This summary ensures no one missed them.

Component Updates

Version Changes

Stable Updates Published

Skype Was Shut Down

Skype itself has been retired, and so the Skype bridge we’ve offered is now deprecated and will be removed from customers’ servers during the usual maintenance process. Unfortunately, there is no maintained open-source Microsoft Teams bridge yet, so currently we cannot offer any replacement, alas.

Announcement by Microsoft

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Weekly Recap

Weekly Recap

The following changes were introduced this week and mentioned in #updates:etke.cc. This summary ensures no one missed them.

Component Updates

Version Changes

Service Updates

Monitoring Alerts Scheduling Changes

Previously, automatic monitoring reports were sent with an exponential backoff — meaning that if an issue persisted, you would receive reminders after increasingly longer delays (not immediately the next day).

The idea behind this mechanism was to help customers notice unresolved issues, even if they missed the initial alert. However, in practice, we found that it often caused more annoyance than help.

To improve the experience, monitoring alert reminders will now be sent once per week for the same ongoing issue.

For example: if you have a misconfigured delegation redirect, you will receive an alert on Monday, and if nothing changes, a reminder will be sent the following Monday.

Important: if a new issue appears, you will still receive an alert immediately.

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Weekly Recap

Weekly Recap

The following changes were introduced this week and mentioned in #updates:etke.cc. This summary ensures no one missed them.

Component Updates

Version Changes

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Weekly Recap

Weekly Recap

The following changes were introduced this week and mentioned in #updates:etke.cc. This summary ensures no one missed them.

Component Updates

Version Changes

Service Updates

Synapse Admin - Server Actions

Starting from v0.10.3-etke39, Synapse Admin got Server Actions page that covers Scheduler’s functionality, previously available only via Matrix bot:

  • Running a command immediately (moved from the Server Status page)
  • Schedule a command to run at a specific date and time
  • Configure a recurring schedule to run a command weekly on a specific weekday and time

MatrixRooms.info - Communities Spotlight and Search Relevancy

Communities spotlight

On the main page of the website, a new section has been added - communities spotlight. It randomly picks one of the example search terms and shows the most relevant (small) communities that need you. We hope that section will help smaller Matrix rooms to be discovered and grow!

Search relevancy modes

Previously, the website scored search results by members (highest priority), and relevancy (lower priority). Now you choose what relevancy mode you prefer - most relevant (but usually small) rooms, or highest members count (less relevant)

Check it out on MatrixRooms.info

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Weekly Recap

Weekly Recap

The following changes were introduced this week and mentioned in #updates:etke.cc. This summary ensures no one missed them.

Component Updates

Version Changes

Component Updates

Matrix RTC – In-App Calls for Experimental Clients

Recently, all client apps using the experimental Matrix RTC stack lost the ability to make in-app calls due to the removal of the public RTC instance, which was previously enabled by default.

To restore in-app call functionality and prevent similar disruptions in the future, we now offer the Matrix RTC stack directly on your server. This will enable in-app calls for the following non-production-ready client apps:

  • Element Web/Desktop (if any experimental RTC-dependent features are enabled in Labs, such as Video Rooms or Element Call support)
  • Element X (under heavy development, unstable, not production-ready)
  • SchildiChat Next (fork of Element X)
  • Any other app that adds Matrix RTC support in the future

The experimental Matrix RTC stack is available as an optional paid component for +$5/month:

Reminder: The mentioned client apps (or specific features within them) are under active development. They are not production-ready, may crash frequently, contain bugs, and lack key features. Do not rely on them for production usage!

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Weekly Recap

Weekly Recap

The following changes were introduced this week and mentioned in #updates:etke.cc. This summary ensures no one missed them.

Component Updates

Version Changes

Service Updates

Fix for Recurring Scheduling is Live

Adding new recurring commands had a bug when some hosts cannot set a timeframe, while Scheduler reported everything was OK. We apologize for the inconvenience! The bug was fixed on Tuesday around 5pm UTC, so any new recurring commands after that were added properly.

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Weekly Recap

Weekly Recap

The following changes were introduced this week and mentioned in #updates:etke.cc. This summary ensures no one missed them.

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Servers Update In Progress (Security Fix)

Servers Update In Progress (Security Fix)

Synapse v1.127.0 -> v1.127.1

This patch release fixes a high severity vulnerability affecting federation, which is known to have been been exploited in the wild.

Details

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