Weekly Recap

These updates were originally shared in #updates:etke.cc and are collected here in a weekly digest for convenience.

Component Updates¶

This week, no components released new versions, so this update only contains internal infrastructure changes.

🦁 Komai: a new native Matrix chat app you can get to love!¶

We’re excited to introduce Komai, a desktop-first, native Matrix chat app we’ve been building to scratch a long-standing itch. Forked from nheko and rebuilt around matrix-rust-sdk, it’s our humble attempt at making Matrix on the desktop a little better.

A few highlights:

• 📑 Browser-style room tabs: open multiple conversations side by side, pin the ones you keep coming back to
• 🧭 A polished room directory with first-class Matrix Rooms Search support
• 🎨 10+ built-in themes, all maintained to meet WCAG AA contrast, plus user themes
• 🎙️ Voice transcription: long-press Space to dictate into the composer
• 🤖 Automation hooks: drive Komai from CLI, D-Bus, or an AI agent over MCP
• 👥 Multi-account via dedicated application profiles
• 🌐 30+ fully translated languages

Komai is Linux-only (x86_64) for now, available as AppImage, Flatpak, Snap, and on the Arch Linux AUR. It’s fully Free Software (GPL-3.0-or-later, no CLAs, no contributor gatekeeping), built openly with AI assistance, and good enough to ship. We’re already daily-driving it ourselves. 🦁

📖 Read the full announcement on our blog or head over to the code repository

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