Matrix Live S2 Ep 13 - Apr 2

Riot

0.14 delayed by last minute improvements to communities to allow self-joining (thanks to some robust feedback on the release candidates from Elliptic supporters)

Working a formal roadmap and scope for 0.15

0.15 should have:

 * stickerpacks (just merged to develop!)

 * jitsi by default (at last!)

 * performance telemetry gathering

Stretch goals are fixing the react-sdk/riot-web layering split(!!!!!!), member lazyloading and e2e cross-signing.

Riot/Mobile

 * Emergency releases to fix a Synapse DoS vector concerning redactions

 * And then an emergency release on Android to fix the emergency release - please upgrade to 0.8.5!

 * Sticker packs implemented

 * Nightmare android push notification wrangling continues

Synapse

 * Synapse 0.27 is out (currently on 0.27.2)! if you haven't upgraded, please do so.

 * Major perf improvements on the horizon:

 * Lots of JSON benchmarking - richvdh got canonicaljson to run 3x faster

 * Erik’s been working on incremental state resolution calculations. Looking very promising so far; test jig shows a 9x speedup and could have similar resource improvements

 * notafile has been converting from py2 to py3 - which should reduce RAM usage by 2-3x and also improve GC and memory management in general. All UTs pass!! But sytest doesn’t yet. Huge thanks to notafile for pushing this along!

 * GDPR compliance on the horizon: our plan atm is to add an API to let vape a user from your server (and block them from resyncing).  In future we'll look at a megaredact API.

 * Official Ansible playbooks are in dev.

 * Operational messes caused by DoSes from mobile clients.

Dendrite

 * Synapse resurgence continues to distract the core team from Dendrite (although we're speaking at the London Go meetup about Dendrite on Wed April 5th!)

Bridges

 * Freenode had a disaster last Thursday & Friday - sorry for those who got caught in the outage; it's stable again now and should behave better thanks to all the Synapse perf work.

Spec

 * We've had some thoughts on Matrix and MLS (Messaging Layer Security).

 * Forgot to mention (in the video) that there's really exciting work happening on a general C++ wrapper for olm called matrix-olm-wrapper written by ajberchek for use in nheko and other clients!

 * Ben joins this coming week to focus on improving our support of the wider Matrix community! He’ll need to come up to speed first but watch this space.

 * We've also started publishing the notes of our internal sync meetings - keep an eye on Patreon if you're Polynomial or Elliptic for the details.