Matrix "Live" S2 Ep 7+8 - Feb 23

Riot/Web

  * Preparing for 0.14 release

  * Finalising the LeftLeftPanel!

  * Memory Perf (reduced memory consumption by about 30% so far)

  * Fixing anything which has regressed since 0.13 (e.g Tinting)

  * Coming up:

    * Room-switching Perf

    * Fixing perf slowdowns when receiving messages

Riot/Mobile

  * 0.8 is out on Android!

    * FDROID IS BACK!!  (Thanks to Marcus, Mathjis and the Fdroid team!)

    * Welcome to Audrey, and thanks to Giom for switching to Android to help too!

    * URL previews

    * Adds initial support for communities!

    * Adds flair!

    * fixed the missed notifications, issue observed mostly on Android 8. We prevent the app from being killed while it runs in background by introducing a temporary notification "Synchronizing" (displayed if there is no notification yet).

    * fixed the duplicate notifications observed in Fdroid

    * Room notification level: you can now select mute/mentions-only/normal/noisy

  * 0.6.10 has been pending developer on iOS since Monday… uh, we should probably release it. 

    * Initial support for Communities and flair here too!

    * Fixes to nightmare spontaneous logout issues on iOS11 if you lose battery

Synapse

  * Event creator workers are here!  But still some work to be done to actually make them perform..

  * ...Meanwhile we ran out of CPU (and RAM) on the synchrotron side

  * I want to add a replication fan-out worker...

  * S3 content upload is also here, and even being used on matrix.org to save diskspace.

  * Introduction of Compact Events to save some RAM.

  * Generally lots of ops :|

Dendrite

  * PRs from Dumbledor (federation) and Anoa (AS)

  * Otherwise core dev is still stalled by Synapse hell - sorry.

Integrations

  * Sticker pack final PRs are open! Nearly there...

Spec

  * Extensible format nightmare

  * State resets

  * Formal spec proposal for widget API (slightly more refined than the actual implementation being used for sticker packs, but we’ll update to use it)

Other stuff

  * Matthew fixed the smearing in the vrdemo

  * Our office is finished! and we even have an office dog!